The first quarter of the year is already past, we are now gearing up for the start of the USA and European summer. Charnel Francis our colleague has just attended the IMA conference held in Phuket, and her feedback is that it is nice to be able to interact with our piers in the industry […]
Read moreAs a young woman, the Queen was not particularly well-travelled, and by the age of 20, she had never even left the U.K. But in February 1947—just a few months before her engagement to Prince Philip that summer—her father George VI announced that the family was going to South Africa.’ The family arrived in Cape […]
Read moreLiquid Intelligent Technologies, a Zimbabwean firm specializing in fibre connectivity, announced, on Tuesday, the acquisition of a fibre pair on Google’s Equiano submarine cable. This will enable the Econet Group’s subsidiary to improve international connectivity in West and Southern Africa, with the capacity to transport up to 12 Terabits of traffic. With its over 100,000 […]
Read moreA recent article that examines why many African countries outsource their currency production has revealed that over 40 African countries print their money in the UK, France and Germany — decades after independence. According to the article, countries like Ethiopia, Libya and Angola — along with 14 other countries — place orders from British banknote […]
Read moreI am pleased to confirm that AMS has opened there office and warehouse facility in Brazzaville The Congo. Our Office in Pointe Noire is a strategic office to be of service to the companies within the oil and gas industry. The office in Brazzaville is to be of service to the various Embassies, NGO’s and […]
Read moreThe World Health Organization has warned that on top of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is facing new outbreaks of the viral haemorrhagic fevers Marburg and Ebola, risking huge strains on ill-equipped health systems. The new outbreaks show the multitude of challenges governments are fighting in parallel with the pandemic, Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director […]
Read moreSince late July small military detachments from other African countries have been arriving in the Cabo Delgado region after an agreement among the Southern African Development Community (SADC) marked by delay and tensions. Tanzania, Botswana and Lesotho are sending soldiers, Zimbabwe is sending military training personnel and Angola is providing aircraft, while off the coast […]
Read more“We will be the guinea pig,” said Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya’s president, before trade talks with America opened last year. A deal would make Kenya only the second African country after Morocco to sign a free-trade agreement with the United States. Officials in the Trump administration called the proposed deal “a model” for future ones. But […]
Read moreThe Covid-19 pandemic accelerated transition to remote work comes with profound positives for employers and employees. One report found that employers are saving as much as $22,000 per full-time remote employee, by shedding office-related costs. For workers in low-income countries—especially those in the rapidly growing professional class in sub-Saharan Africa—the unmooring of skilled jobs from […]
Read moreDriving through Kigali, the cleanliness and the lack of trash has to be seen to be believed. There is not a speck of refuse, not a piece of paper, not a thrown away plastic bottle. While the local government pays some residents to tidy streets, on the last Saturday of every month each family must […]
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