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It is past noon in Cairo and the call to prayer announces the start of the working day for many businesses. As Ahmed goes to lift the shutters of the barbershop he has recently opened in the city after having left his home in Sudan due t

Djibouti is known for its stability - and as a strategic location for a number of military bases. Yet you operate in a region that is increasingly volatile. How are you managing the situation? H.E. Guelleh: Djibouti has

Women are the backbone of Africas economy but there is a $42bn funding gap between access to men and women. Two of the key challenges are higher interest rates for women who lack collateral, due to unfair land laws and are often seen as a greater

Women are the backbone of Africas economy but there is a $42bn funding gap between access to men and women. Two of the key challenges are higher interest rates for women who lack collateral, due to unfair land laws and are often seen as a greater

As every year, South African companies dominate the rankings in our Top 250 and in the regional Southern African table. They account for 60.33% of the combined Top 250 African market capitalisation - although this is a big fall from the 67.49% re

The microprocessor has become the worlds most critical resource. Chris Miller tells the story of how virtually everything in the modern world runs on chips: cars, mobile phones, stock markets, even healthcare and power grids all rely on the compu

The East African companies listed in our table have combined market capitalisation of $18.3bn. Kenya dominates as expected with $11.5bn, followed by Tanzania with $4.4bn and Uganda with $2.3bn. Kenyan firms now account for 2.29% of the total valu

Hello Everybody, When I learnt that the AllAfrica Media Leaders Summit had decided to honour me with a Lifetime Achievement Award, I was both flabbergasted and delighted. Flabbergasted because it is usually us publishers who han

There is growing consensus, and not just in the Global South, that the current global financial system is no longer fit for purpose. Africa in particular faces weighty consequences because of the inadequacies of the global financial architecture,