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Change, but how?

Angola’s constitution is under review: but a great deal has been left undone

Angola’s parliament recently approved a bill to review the country’s constitution 11 years after its promulgation. ...

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Working Capital

Egypt: CIB set to benefit from higher credit demand as Fitch raises outlook

Ratings action from Fitch on Egypt’s Commercial International Bank (CIB) shows that the country’s banking sector is poised for recovery, ... analysts say.

Fading Promise

Ethiopia: MTN pullout shows financial-opening prospects receding

Plans by Ethiopia to add mobile financial services as a sweetener in the sale of its second telecom operator licence reportedly weren’t enough ... to persuade the first round’s only unsuccessful bidder, South Africa's MTN, to have another try.

Shaping A Vision

Africa: This is our time to get food systems right

For many decades, it has been perceived that the solution to food insecurity in Africa is increased agricultural productivity. While this is ... part of the solution, it is not the entire remedy. Without increasing resilience through integrated agricultural markets for cost-effective and nutritious foods, the continent’s food value chains continue to be broken.

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Achilles heel

Africa: Working at home raises cybersecurity risks, say Liquid, Allianz

Food for thought

What’s behind Africa’s skyrocketing imports yet increased production growth?

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Kenya’s Pesapal eyes payments expansion to Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa

Achilles heel

Africa: Working at home raises cybersecurity risks, say Liquid, Allianz

Food for thought

What’s behind Africa’s skyrocketing imports yet increased production growth?

FAST FORWARD

Kenya’s Pesapal eyes payments expansion to Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa

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bold experimentation

South Africa must leave old ideas behind to move forward

In the preface to his great book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, written in the 1930s at the height of the Great Depression, ... the renowned economist John Maynard Keynes suggested that the obstacle to decisive change: "lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."

oxygen wanted

Algeria’s health system is on the brink of implosion, as coronavirus wave hits

The Algerian health system is currently overwhelmed and facing a worrying health situation, as the number of Covid infections is higher than ... ever. Health workers are calling for a “state of health emergency” to be declared.

coronavirus champion

South Africa’s Dr Fauci back to battling the long pandemic of HIV

Celebrated epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim, known as 'South Africa's Dr Fauci', has moved on from his work on the South African Ministerial ... Advisory committee on Covid-19, to serve as a member of the African Task Force for Coronavirus and the Lancet Commission on Covid-19. He's also gone back to focusing on his life's work of fighting the HIV/Aids pandemic.

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Ultra-cold

As Africa awaits next Covid19 vaccine supplies, WHO survey shows cold chain gaps persist

Amid a third wave of the pandemic in Africa, only 1.3% of the population have so far been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, with 1.35 billion ... people still at risk of contracting the virus.

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covid-19 Catch-22

Nigeria faces deadly Covid-19 Delta wave as infections jump 150%

After weeks of steady decline in the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases, Nigeria is now responding to what authorities are describing as a “likely ... third wave” of the pandemic, led by the more contagious Delta variant. But Chikwe Ihekweazu, the man at the centre of Nigeria’s Covid-19 response, tells The Africa Report that there is greater risk of a surge in infections as more people disregard the public health measures in place.

REFLATION REVISED

Unilever Nigeria still not out of the woods as cost inflation looms

Unilever Nigeria still has a lot to do to turn the corner after a return to profitability in the second quarter, investors and analysts say. ...

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