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Nigeria Cassava

agriculture calls

End food insecurity across Africa through agricultural change

In the aftermath of the financial and debt crises that started in 2007, food prices increased 57% in 2008 and 64 per cent in 2012, leading to ... a global food emergency in which 75 million more people went to bed hungry. The food crisis contributed to major protests and instability across the world, including in Mexico, Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. In the Middle East, it helped trigger the Arab Spring of 2012.

growing hope

Nigeria VS Coronavirus: Improved infrastructure a necessity for farmers

In the sixth story of our series on the impact of COVID-19 on the Nigerian economy, we look how the pandemic has affected agriculture. ...

Article 6/6 of "How will Nigeria navigate the pandemic"

Life After COVID

Radisson Hotel Group betting on African growth as demand picks up

Radisson Hotel Group says it will go ahead with its plans to expand in its key African markets despite the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

The Long Haul

Morocco ripe for investment, says Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity CEO

Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity is planning to make new investments in Morocco and would have done so already had COVID-19 not arrived, CEO ... Johnny El Hachem tells The Africa Report.

A member of the Libyan internationally recognised government forces is seen during a fight with Eastern forces, in southern Tripoli

stalemate

Egypt and Turkey head-to-head in Libya, stalemate looms

The weekend of 20 June witnessed a sharp escalation in tensions between Egypt and Turkey over Libya. In a speech near the Egyptian-Libyan border, ... President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed his full intentions to fully involve Egypt’s military in Libya. But with each country armed with similar military capabilities, such a scenario would likely lead to a long-lasting standoff.

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Africa needs access to capital, but not at these rates – SouthBridge

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare Africa’s unsustainable borrowing arrangements and lack of access to capital markets, Hamet Aguemon, a partner ... at SouthBridge investment bank in Abidjan, tells The Africa Report.

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take to the skies

Coronavirus: Which African airlines are taking off and when?

While the reopening of air borders is looming, many uncertainties remain about when air traffic will return to normal to and from Africa. Jeune ... Afrique and The Africa Report takes a look at the situation.

A 50 MW solar power farm in Garissa, Kenya. The plant, designed and built by the EPC contractor China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic and Technical Co-operation (CJIC), in conjunction with Kenya's Rural Energy Authority (REA), is one of the largest photovoltaic electricity stations in Africa.

power up

Energy can power Africa’s recovery from pandemic and recession

Too often in human history, access to reliable and affordable energy has been a privilege for the few when it should be a basic right for all. ... This has been especially true in Africa where – despite remarkable progress in recent years – hundreds of millions of people still have no electricity.

President Muhammadu Buhari raises his fist during an inspection of honour guards on parade to mark Democracy Day in Abuja, on June 12, 2019

cash drip

Buhari’s COVID-19 economic plan: old wine in new wineskins

COVID-19 is increasingly wreaking havoc on the health of Nigerians, but its economic impact may well be more devastating. Before the pandemic, ... the Nigerian economy was growing at an anaemic rate of 2%. The country has also been suffering from high poverty and unemployment rates. This is paradoxical for a country endowed with humongous natural resources.

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ON EDGE

South Africa: Mboweni budget raises more questions than answers

Finance minister Tito Mboweni has conceded that a fiscal reckoning looms for South Africa, where public finances are “dangerously ... overstretched”.

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