How cash-strapped farmers get their goods to market quickly and at a fair, transparent price In a small, tidy office on the top floor of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange building in Addis Ababa, communications manager...
Africa in Fact Issue 34
Diaspora bonds: alternative financing
By Nontobeko Mtshali They are dollars wrapped with care — money that is homebound to villages and towns across the globe sent by relatives who have migrated in pursuit of greener pastures or refuge. These remittances...
Angola: out of stock
By Louise Redvers Angola is Africa’s fifth largest economy, its second producer of crude oil, a magnet for foreign direct investment and the custodian of one of the continent’s biggest sovereign wealth funds....
African mining development is challenged by a shortage of investment funding
Africa’s mining sector has proven a mixed blessing. The continent’s mineral resources offer enormous possibilities for wealth, but they are also hard to reach. Sub-Saharan Africa, with the inhospitable Arctic, remains...
Egypt: ups and downs
Political instability and unclear policies rock Egypt’s bourse By Kristen McTighe In the aftermath of the 2013 military coup that toppled Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s former Islamist president, more than 1,000...
Rising stock: African capital markets
By Simon Allison Ironically, Africa’s chronic economic underdevelopment may now be its greatest opportunity. After so many decades of sluggish economic growth and lagging far behind other continents, Africa can be...
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