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Africa: BNPL is an innovation our industry needs to get right

Buy now, pay later (BNPL), a payment plan that allows consumers to make purchases and spread the payment over time is gaining ground in Africa. ... Factors such as a Covid-19-induced economic slowdown, the rise of e-commerce penetration and an increasing inflation rate have fuelled BNPL's shift from a nice-to-have to an essential part of consumer life.

Stress Test

Prudential says business growing across Africa, to roll out health-insurance app

Global insurer Prudential has seen growth in premiums and numbers of policies sold across Africa this year, Eddie Brown, head of francophone ... Africa, tells The Africa Report.

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South Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery

South Africa risks shooting itself in the foot as regulatory failings for the licensing of tour operators cripple the industry’s capacity to ... respond to a rebound in international tourism.

fears revived

Should we stop making a fuss about African debt?

The economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis have revived fears about the indebtedness of African countries. Is this alarmism justified? ... We investigate this question in our four-part series.

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Stress Test

Prudential says business growing across Africa, to roll out health-insurance app

Red Tape Artists

South Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery

fears revived

Should we stop making a fuss about African debt?

Article 1/5 of "Africa’s new debt deals"

Stress Test

Prudential says business growing across Africa, to roll out health-insurance app

Red Tape Artists

South Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery

fears revived

Should we stop making a fuss about African debt?

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Money Supply

Steve Hanke: African central banks have tools to beat stagflation, aren’t using them

African central banks have the ability to help protect their countries from the global shock to prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ... Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University in the US, tells The Africa Report.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: ‘I hope the tensions won’t lead to World War III!’

As multiple crises gnaw away at global unity, the director-general of the World Trade Organisation talks to The Africa Report about geopolitics, ... vaccine equality and the future of free trade on the continent and beyond.

CAPITAL REFUELLING

Airlines: South Africa’s Comair to unveil funding plan by end of March – CEO Orsmond

Comair, which is a British Airways franchisee in Southern Africa and the owner of low-cost airline Kulula, will go to market with its latest ... fund-raising plan at the end of March, CEO Glenn Orsmond tells The Africa Report.

Department of peacemaking

US/Africa: Secretary of state Blinken woos Algeria and Morocco for help with Russia

US Secretary of state Antony Blinken is overseeing a sensitive mediation in North Africa this week as President Joe Biden's administration looks ... to enrol bitter rivals Morocco and Algeria in its Russia policy.

Dealing with the end

Nigerian writer Elnathan John: Look death in the eye

You had only known Graham for a short while, only a couple of months since you first met him at the home of a mutual acquaintance, the oldest ... person in the room with a beautiful salt and pepper beard. He spoke the least, but when he did, everyone paused to listen to his low baritone as carefully considered words tumbled slowly out of his lips. You always wanted to make older male friends, and you reached out after, encouraged by a mutual friend, to see him again.

Searching for alternatives

AfDB proposes $1bn plan to move away from Russian wheat

This $1bn financial package would help avert food shortages in Africa by enabling the agricultural sector’s development, according to the AfDB. ...

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