Tanzania and Zambia launch one stop border post
Funded by TradeMark East Africa, an organisation that aims to improve trade competitiveness in East Africa by cutting down transport time and costs, and...
Lepidico secures DFC funding for its Namibian lithium project
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Lepidico, an Australian lithium developer has secured a US D 50 mn commitment from the US Government’s International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)...
Namibia to intensify mining of diamonds
Namibia will intensify its mining of diamonds in the coming years. As a sequel to this drive, five African commercial banks have...
Pros and cons of cigarette ban in South Africa
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· The ongoing cigarette ban in South Africa has caused not only spike in prices but also black marketing...
Mauritius to impose 15% tax on online services —Amazon, Netflix etc to be hit
· The Mauritius Government has proposed to impose a 15% tax on subscriptions to online services. This will bring online service...
Sanlam acquires Rwanda Insurance Company
The leading South African insurance company, Sanlam is on an aggressive global expansion mode. Recently it has added Rwanda, the 40th country in its global...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions of South Africa is in a collusion...
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· The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has given a clarion call to its members to strike...
South African Telecom Tariff on the higher side-regulator
There is a flip side to every development effort. That is true in the case of telecom also. Large multinational companies that...
Seychelles tourism sector is kicking off
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· Over 75 percent of the rooms in Seychelles' 418 tourism establishments have received safe tourism certificates
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Botswana’s success story- Choppies- runs into trouble
Boardroom squabbles with the chairman and former Botswana President, Festus Mogae over the direction and running of the company led to the suspension...
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