Office of the Future Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Nigeria lead Africa office demand rebound, says Haussmann Africa West Africa is set to lead a recovery in demand for African office space in 2021, Haussmann Africa chief operating officer Maxime Chauvelot tells ... The Africa Report.
Stepping up ‘This is not your grandfather’s IMF’, says Africa department director Abebe Selassie The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has proven an unlikely countervailing force to the disrepair of international institutions exposed by the ... pandemic and worsened by nationalism and populism.
Mission Critical Africa: Expanding power access is crucial to resisting pandemics Funding for developing solar power solutions in Africa must move up the global agenda if the continent is to be able to withstand current and ... future pandemics, Zola Electric CEO Bill Lenihan tells The Africa Report.
Vaccine Rollout Covid-19: ‘All African countries have the capacity to carry out mass vaccinations’ – Nkengasong Director of the Africa CDC, the Cameroonian virologist John Nkengasong is the main coordinator of the fight against Covid-19 on the continent ... and the African Union’s representative on this matter. He insists on the need to stop being dependent on other countries in matters of public health. That starts with the push to procure vaccines.
Reading the smallprint South Africa’s Santam defends position on COVID-19 claims The Africa Report’s latest article on Santam’s stance on paying COVID-19 business interruption claims has prompted a detailed response from ... the company, South Africa’s largest general insurer.
lucky sip Alibaba may offer South African red wines, Standard Bank says Standard Bank is hoping to push Alibaba to make South African red wines available on its platform at scale in a bid to match unsold South African ... production with Chinese demand.
Take It or Leave It South Africa’s Santam seeks to limit Covid business pay-outs to three months South Africa’s largest general insurer Santam, which has finally acknowledged that it is liable for business interruption claims filed by policyholders ... as a result of COVID-19, says it will offer hospitality and leisure customers a “full and final” settlement to cover three months of losses.
taps still running Egypt and Ethiopia blame Sudan for latest impasse in GERD talks The latest round of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) talks wrapped up on the evening of 10 January after reaching another stalemate. But ... one thing that did become apparent was the changing dynamics between Sudan and Ethiopia.
Web work Uganda: Museveni & Bobi Wine take their electoral fight online The the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the bruising Ugandan election campaign has taken to social media, with the ruling party and opposition ... leaders seeking to mobilise voters and get their messages out.
Coronavirus change ‘Orthodoxy in macroeconomics is gone out the window’- Carlos Lopes Leading the African Union’s negotiations on future economic relations with the European Union, Carlos Lopes is at the heart of the bid to reposition ... the continent in an era of fast-changing international ties.