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Africa must invest in Africa

On the occasion of our The Africa CEO Forum this 13-14 June in Abidjan, we ask how Africa can reach economic sovereignty; to trade with itself, to build strong domestic industrial fabrics, and start to add value to the undoubted riches of the continent.

© A worker walks past a dome holding liquefied natural gas, on the vessel KARMOL LNGT Powership Asia, one of 37 floating storage and regasification units (FSRU) in the world, as it docks at the Cape Town port en route to Brazil, in Cape Town, South Africa, April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Shelley Christians

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Radical changes

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Energy Transition: A historic opportunity for Africa A radical change has taken place during the last few months within the old debate surrounding natural gas.

Dr Amadou Alpha Fall of the Pasteur Institute, Dakar

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smart drugs

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‘Africa needs to become more self-sufficient’: Dr Sall, Institut Pasteur The pandemic has shown how fragile and externally dependent African health systems are, says Dr. Amadou Alpha Sall the head of the Institut Pasteur in...

© Alewynspoort, a farm in the south of Johannesburg, South Africa, August 25, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

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Supply Chain Revolution

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Stop blaming Russia-Ukraine War for Africa’s fertiliser woes African governments and larger farmers, rather than Russia and Ukraine, hold the key to better regional fertiliser purchasing and distribution.

© As Senegal has shown, taxing chicken imports can create strong local players in the sector/AFP Issouf Sanogo

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hungry for opportunity

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African food security a priority as imported inflation bites Improved taxation systems, investment in energy production, affordable financing and capacity building are the four pillars of African food sovereignt...

Kenyan entrepreneur turns farm waste into low cost organic fertilizer in Mwea

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Fertile Territory

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Africa needs fertiliser credit guarantees to limit price-shock impact The fertiliser price shock triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war highlights the need for a continent-wide system of credit guarantees, Michael Sudarkasa...

George Conde corp.pic.2 © George Conde, CIO Groupe Filatex. All rights reserved.

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Business building

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AfCFTA: ‘It has been a game changer’ – Groupe Filatex’s George Conde Groupe Filatex’s chief investment officer George Conde talks to The Africa Report about how the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is changi...

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Continental focus

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‘The kind of things the AfCFTA is trying to do, it’s really up to us’, says Cassava Technologies’ Pemhiwa Cassava Technologies’ CEO Hardy Pemhiwa talks to The Africa Report about technology, trade and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). ...

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