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pandemic priorities

Tanzania: President Hassan makes a post-Magufuli U-turn on Covid response and vaccines

The government of Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has turned a page on the Covid-denialist policies of the late former president John ... Mugufuli by launching a national task force, which is recommending the country purchase vaccines and cooperated with the World Health Organisation (WHO) by publishing statistics and taking other measures.

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Rethinking Premiums

South Africa’s Ongeza seeks funding for life-insurance expansion

Ongeza Life, pioneer of a whole life insurance product that provides cover even if regular premiums cannot be paid, is seeking funding to expand, ... CEO Patrick Ndururi tells The Africa Report.

banking

Scaling Up

Kenya’s crowded banking sector is ripe for consolidation, analysts say

A raft of small, undercapitalised operators in a market dominated by the main players creates a recipe for consolidation in Kenyan banking, analysts ... say.

firing line

DRC: Zoe Kabila has been removed as governor of Tanganyika

Zoe Kabila, the younger brother of DRC’s former president Joseph Kabila, was stripped of his title as governor of the Tanganyika Province, ... in Katanga by the province’s assembly. Unlike his 25 counterparts, he refused to join President Félix Tshisekedi's “Union Sacrée” political alliance, which is aimed at weakening former president Kabila.

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REFLATION REVISED

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

The power of music

Nigeria’s Yemi Alade: ‘Music serves as a bridge between Africa and the rest of the world’

Computer overlords

Will AI risk analysis really expand access to credit in Africa?

REFLATION REVISED

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

The power of music

Nigeria’s Yemi Alade: ‘Music serves as a bridge between Africa and the rest of the world’

Computer overlords

Will AI risk analysis really expand access to credit in Africa?

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Covid-19 fears

Coronavirus explosion in India complicates Africa vaccine roll out

“Frankly, until the beginning of this year, we lived as if the virus did not exist,” says a French woman living in Delhi. “Everything changed ... between late March and early April.”

FLAVOUR OF PROGRESS

South Africa : Starbucks aims to become a habit ‘rather than destination’ says CEO Maizey

Starbucks South Africa CEO Adrian Maizey speaks to The Africa Report, revealing what is brewing on the horizon for Southern Africa and the percolating ... prospects for the rest of the continent.

building up

Africa: MTN, MMH micro-insurance venture plans expansion, CEO says

aYo Holdings, a micro-insurance joint venture between MTN and Momentum Metropolitan Holdings (MMH), is planning to expand to other African countries, ... CEO Marius Botha tells The Africa Report.

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Project deadlock

Guinea/China: Negotiations turn complicated over Simandou iron ore project

Guinea’s Simandou iron ore project was awarded to the WCS Chinese-Singaporean-Guinean consortium in November 2019. However, negotiations between ... partners have been dragging on.

Debt Traps

Kenya’s digital lending bill points the way for African regulation

Plans by Kenya to regulate digital lending highlight the need for supervision of the growth of loan platforms in Africa. ...

shots in arms

US backs waiver of patents on Covid vaccines after historic policy shift

US trade representative Katherine Tai’s support for a waiver of intellectual-property protections for Covid-19 vaccines is a bold foreign policy ... move by President Joe Biden's administration and an early tactical win by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

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