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The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) is tightening oversight of large infrastructure projects across Africa as Gulf states intensify competition for strategic influence
ABU DHABI

UAE ramps up African infrastructure investment as Gulf states compete for trade influence

The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development is accelerating oversight of large road projects in Togo, Madagascar and Nigeria as Gulf states expand strategic infrastructure investments…

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
3 min read
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Rwandan President Paul Kagame during a panel discussion at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan on Monday. (African Business Forum)
AFCFTA ECONOMIC INTEGRATION

Ramaphosa tells CEO forum white people who fled to US are not being ‘hounded’

He told US President Donald Trump during a phone call there was no racial persecution in South Africa

  • Lyse Comins
8 min read
AFRICA CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA

IDC performance highlights for 2022/23 FY

The Corporation ramped-up its investment into the economy significantly in the year in review. In the year ahead, job creation will remain paramount to the IDC’s objectives

  • IDC
8 min read
People in countries such as Brazil, India and China are two to three times more likely to be entrepreneurs than South Africans.
AFRICA CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA

Red tape is strangling small businesses

People in countries such as Brazil, India and China are two to three times more likely to be entrepreneurs than South Africans.

  • Sindile Vabaza
5 min read
There is strong bipartisan and beneficiary support for making improvements to Agoa.
AFCFTA

The Africa investment protocol: a prickly pear for Africans

The Africa Continental Free Trade Area is set to be launched in January 2021. But the secretariat still needs to ensure that investors are adequately protected

  • Mthandazo Ngwenya
5 min read
This handout picture taken on July 20, 2020, and released by Adwa Pictures on July 27, 2020, shows an aerial view Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River in Guba, northwest Ethiopia.
AFCFTA

US foreign policy may be creating instability in Africa

Sometimes, the best foreign policy might be not to get involved at all

  • Gyude Moore
6 min read