The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) opened in Cape Town on 29 October 2019 with stirring calls from speakers for women to move from having conversations about economic empowerment to radical action
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Doing business in Africa: World Bank forecast in 2020
African economies continued to improve their business climates, with the region’s largest economy, Nigeria, earning a place among the year’s top global improvers alongside Togo, according to the World Bank Group’s Doing Business study
ECA, AUC pledge full support to Zimbabwe on AfCFTA implementation
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have assured Zimbabwe of continued technical support in assisting the country in its efforts to develop a national strategy to benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya named rising stars of global trade
Côte d’Ivoire is the country that has increased its trade growth potential most quickly over the last decade, according to new research by Standard Chartered
Growth in fintech drives growth in cyberattacks
Africa’s fintech sector is booming, according to Toby Shapshak in an article for Forbes