Who Will Be Africa’s Brazil?
Will there ever be an “African Brazil”? Who will that be? Angola? Congo? Ethiopia? Nigeria? South Africa? Flip that question: what will it take for an African country to become a new Brazil? A lot....
View ArticleThe African transhipment race
Have you noticed the debate in the on-line Global Ports Forum about who will become the main container terminals in East and West Africa? Portstrategy.com has taken it upon themselves to score some of...
View ArticleEthiopia Becomes World’s Fourth Largest Flower Exporter
Revenues from flower exports have grown from $27.9 million dollars in 2002-03 to $178.3 million dollars in 2010-11. Photo Chellelek Files Indian-owned firms in Ethiopia are making flowers the country’s...
View ArticleUganda says it’s time to talk in Africa
Port of Mombasa (Credit – Port Strategy) Not for the first time a landlocked country in Africa is attempting to have a say in a remote port operation which functions as a major gateway for its import...
View ArticleAfrican States urged to begin prioritising economic transformation
The inaugural Africa Transformation Report ranks Mauritius as the most economically transformed country out of 21 sub-Saharan African countries measured in its African Transformation Index, which takes...
View ArticleHigh Court Stops Kenyan Mega-Port
Kenya’s high court on Friday ordered a halt to the long-delayed development of a mega-port on the country’s northern coast for at least two weeks to allow a lawsuit lodged by local landowners over...
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