Nigeria

Supply Chains

CMA CGM bets on Africa’s inland logistics with AMI purchase

CMA CGM is expanding its presence in Africa with the purchase of logistics provider AMI Worldwide, Mathieu Friedberg, CEO of CMA CGM’s CEVA ... Logistics unit, tells The Africa Report.

PANDEMIC PENURY

Thank you Jack Ma! But where are Africa’s billionaires?

When I heard that Jack Ma, a Chinese billionaire and founder of the Alibaba conglomerate, was donating drugs and equipment to manage the COVID-19 ... pandemic in Africa, my instinct was to roll my eyes.

teen spirit

Ghanaian teen boosts harvest for small land farmers with his App

In the middle of a field, far away from the big cities, and often without any internet connection, how can technology serve any purpose to the ... farmers working the land? One Ghanaian teenager has an answer to that question.

eye on the prize

Egypt’s Abdel Hamid Mamdouh bid for the WTO – Five things to know

At 67, Abdel Hamid Mamdouh is one of four Africans vying for the top post of Director-General at the World Trade Organization. He’s relying ... on his years of experience within the institution and the support of his government to make that win a reality.

fickle race

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s bid to lead the WTO – Five things to know

Development economist and former two-time Finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been nominated as the candidate for the job of ... Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, following the abrupt resignation of Roberto Azevêdo. But her nomination comes after President Muhammadu Buhari had already nominated Yonov Frederick Agah. Why the sudden switch?

looking inwards

Coronavirus: The pandemic doesn’t mean AfCFTA is on lockdown

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is one of the greatest examples of Pan-Africanism since the creation of the African Union (AU). ... The agreement has acquired the signatures of 54 of the AU’s 55 member-states, bringing together an impressive domestic market of more than 1.2 billion people with a collective GDP of $2.6tn.

trade within

Coronavirus: Africa needs AfCFTA to transform its economies

Of all the legacies of colonialism, one of those which has most hampered economic growth and the alleviation of poverty is fragmentation – ... neighbours with different currencies, regulations enabling trade with Europe but not with other Africans, and a neglect of intra-African transport and infrastructure links to facilitate this trade.

payment paradigms

Mastercard: “In Africa, our biggest competitor is cash”

When cash is king, payments companies have an uphill battle... but also a huge market to address, explains Mastercard's Raghav Prasad. ...

bounce back

Nigeria VS Coronavirus: Hardest hit least helped, informal workers

In the fifth story of our series on the impact of COVID-19 on Nigeria’s economy, we look at the impact the pandemic is having on one of its ... largest sectors: the informal workers. 

Article 5/6 of "How will Nigeria navigate the pandemic"

whose scheme?

AfDB: The “Real” Geopolitics of the Adesina Affair

Yes, Africa has cause to be very alert about imperialism. But that is not the issue at the AfDB. ...