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Cameroon’s Rebecca Enonchong: 10 things about the free spirit of African tech

A leading figure in African digital entrepreneurship, Rebecca Enonchong is also a committed global citizen who never minces her words on issues ... like Cameroon's Anglophone crisis or the relationship between Africa and France.

Egyptian youth volunteers collect waste and plastic as part of a campaign to clean up the Nile River, in Cairo

green gold

Egypt: This $4bn plant will turn waste into hydrogen

Energy company H2-Industries is behind construction of Egypt’s first – and one of the world’s largest – waste-to-hydrogen facilities. ... Its development will be an important step towards generating green hydrogen in the North African nation, says CEO and executive chairman, H2-Industries Michael Stusch to The Africa Report.

Blown up

Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal…countries where debt has exploded

The level of external debt has risen sharply since 2015, but not all countries are in the same boat. Their capacity to cope with the challenge ... differs greatly. We look into this situation in part 4 of our series.

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Africa CEO Forum: Sall and Bazoum lead the charge on agriculture and the environment

"As Europe did to continue to get Russian gas..." In front of nearly a thousand participants who came to attend the closing presidential panel ... of the Africa CEO Forum* organised on 13 and 14 June in Abidjan, Senegal's President Macky Sall pointed out the double standards from which African economies suffer because of the crisis in Ukraine.

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economic war

Afreximbank AGM: ‘Industrialisation required for Intra-African free trade to flourish’

health span

Finance: Tidjane Thiam’s SPAC to merge with USA’s Human Longevity

Back to business

Zimbabwe: ‘Disruption to lending has ended,’ Stanbic Bank top official says

economic war

Afreximbank AGM: ‘Industrialisation required for Intra-African free trade to flourish’

health span

Finance: Tidjane Thiam’s SPAC to merge with USA’s Human Longevity

Back to business

Zimbabwe: ‘Disruption to lending has ended,’ Stanbic Bank top official says

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Drawing parallels

African debt: What about the role of rating agencies?

The global leaders in financial ratings for debt are once again facing a salvo of criticism from some 60 development actors. Here are some explanations ... and responses from the institutions in question.

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Bank building

Ghana’s development bank gets off to a good start

The Development Bank Ghana (DBG) is a work in progress. The rationale is clear: helping fix the financing crunch for domestic companies unable ... to afford the high interest rates of the commercial banking space, which hover at around 22%. Cronyism and corruption have dogged many previous attempts to provide soft loans to industrial players in the country. Can Ghana make it work this time?

swift exit

Standard Chartered claims unwavering support for Africa

Standard Chartered has built a reputation as an emerging-market banking champion: a bank that prides itself on its business across Asia, Africa ... and the Middle East.

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up in space

Is Starlink the solution to Nigeria’s connectivity woes?

Last month, the owner of Starlink, Elon Musk, announced that the internet service provider had concluded plans to launch in Nigeria and Mozambique ... after the government of both countries granted operational licenses to the company.

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Africa CEO Forum: Artificial intelligence, taxation, AfCFTA – the tools of independence

"How do we want to be remembered in history? As simple consumers? Or as transformers of our potential and resources?" With this question, Kate ... Fotso, the boss of Cameroon's Telcar Cocoa, sums up the challenge that Africa must take up to build its economic independence. This debate, at the heart of the Africa CEO Forum held in Abidjan, was discussed during a round table on 13 June.

Digital lift-off

Interview: Nitin Gajria talks about Google’s new development centre and Africa strategy

Google's managing director for sub-Saharan Africa Nitin Gajria sits in his home office in Johannesburg, surrounded by images of his heritage. ... A poster for the 1978 Hollywood film Don, released the year he was born, sits on the floor to his left. On a table to his right is Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, a book that looks at the history of the modern sub-Saharan Africa – a summary of the events that have shaped the continent.

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