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Premium badgeNigeria: OmniIndex plans nationwide roll-out of Blockchain education data storage

California-based OmniIndex aims to use its Google partnership to roll out Blockchain for educational data across Nigeria and Africa.

According to Kristalina Georgieva (shown here at the Spring Meetings, April 2023), head of the IMF, 15% of low-income countries are already in a debt crisis and 40% are getting closer to it. MANDEL NGAN/AFP.

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Premium badgeExplainer: How (un)sustainable Africa’s sovereign debt is Sovereign debt can be a powerful lever for economic development, provided it is used wisely. How do African countries manage to convince creditors?
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo attends the Reuters NEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, New York, U.S., December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

‘same values’

Premium badgeUS companies ‘willing to make more investments’ in Nigeria The US Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, pointed to unstable naira and corruption as some of the issues impeding Nigeria’s economic growth....
South Africa’s Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana speaks during his 2023 budget speech in Cape Town, South Africa. (Reuters/Shelley Christians)

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Premium badgeSouth Africa: Tempers boil as welfare state eyes $7bn bill Political tensions are mounting in South Africa as the overburdened state welfare system becomes too expensive to maintain.

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School resumption in Nigeria amid the coronavirus-disease (COVID-19) outbreak © Students in Abuja, Nigeria, January 18, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

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Premium badgeNigeria: OmniIndex plans nationwide roll-out of Blockchain education data storage California-based OmniIndex aims to use its Google partnership to roll out Blockchain for educational data across Nigeria and Africa.
According to Kristalina Georgieva (shown here at the Spring Meetings, April 2023), head of the IMF, 15% of low-income countries are already in a debt crisis and 40% are getting closer to it. MANDEL NGAN/AFP.

high risk

Premium badgeExplainer: How (un)sustainable Africa’s sovereign debt is Sovereign debt can be a powerful lever for economic development, provided it is used wisely. How do African countries manage to convince creditors?
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo attends the Reuters NEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, New York, U.S., December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

‘same values’

Premium badgeUS companies ‘willing to make more investments’ in Nigeria The US Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, pointed to unstable naira and corruption as some of the issues impeding Nigeria’s economic growth....

Business top stories

School resumption in Nigeria amid the coronavirus-disease (COVID-19) outbreak © Students in Abuja, Nigeria, January 18, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Don't Know Your Customer

Premium badgeNigeria: OmniIndex plans nationwide roll-out of Blockchain education data storage California-based OmniIndex aims to use its Google partnership to roll out Blockchain for educational data across Nigeria and Africa.
According to Kristalina Georgieva (shown here at the Spring Meetings, April 2023), head of the IMF, 15% of low-income countries are already in a debt crisis and 40% are getting closer to it. MANDEL NGAN/AFP.

high risk

Premium badgeExplainer: How (un)sustainable Africa’s sovereign debt is Sovereign debt can be a powerful lever for economic development, provided it is used wisely. How do African countries manage to convince creditors?
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Department Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo attends the Reuters NEXT Newsmaker event in New York City, New York, U.S., December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

‘same values’

Premium badgeUS companies ‘willing to make more investments’ in Nigeria The US Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, pointed to unstable naira and corruption as some of the issues impeding Nigeria’s economic growth....

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© The Congo Basin rainforest absorbs the equivalent of all of Africa’s carbon emissions. (Jens Grossmann/LAIF-REA)

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Premium badgeUN joins Congo basin presidents in call for higher carbon-credit prices in Africa Developing African countries are asking for larger pollution offsets in order to preserve their environments.
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Premium badgeRyad Mezzour: Morocco is establishing genuine industrial sovereignty Decarbonisation, electric battery factories, renewable energies and more: the Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade details his country’s strategy f...
The Husab uranium mine in western Namibia. 11 May 2018. Wu Changwei/Xinhua/REA

multiple agreements

From DRC to Madagascar, Japan weaves its web with critical metals From exploration to exploitation, Japan has signed a series of contracts with three African countries to secure its supplies of critical minerals.
View shows trucks queuing with sacks of grains at the grain market in Merkato neighbourhood of Addis Ababa © African Renaissance sees Ethiopian logistics as a key growth market. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Problem Solvers

Premium badgeAfrican Renaissance considers second East Africa venture capital tech fund African Renaissance Partners believes venture-capital investment is set to take off in east Africa.
© Edward Gyambrah, the officer-in-charge of the Domestic Tax and Revenue Division at the Ghana Revenue Authority. Photo supplied

taking a gamble

Premium badgeGhana: Betting tax stirs public anger, experts’ doubts over economic impact Controversy is brewing in the West African nation as the government’s recent introduction of a 10% withholding tax on betting and lottery winnings ign...
© Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP)

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IEA-OPEC clash ‘beginning of the end’ of fossil fuels? According to the International Energy Agency the decline of oil, gas, and coal is imminent. Producer cartel OPEC has hit back, calling the forecasts ‘...