Business Africa

Do many existing or potential investors in London and similar settings unwittingly misconceive relative business risks in Africa? I ask this question conscious that authors should avoid picking arguments with an editor — even on a site called ‘African Arguments’

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· FDI projects into Africa have more than doubled from 339 in 2003 to 857 in 2011 · Intra-African investment has grown exponentially increasing from 27 in 2003 to 145 in 2011 – 17% of all new FDI projects on

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On 2 May 2012, security forces used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse a sit-in numbering in the thousands in Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott. Issues such as unemployment, drought and corruption regarding the sale of land to senior military officers

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A principal quality that analysts of African business and politics need is humility. Events in North Africa in 2011 must have led to some uncomfortable questions between firms and their risk advisors – I have yet to see any end-2010

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The latest coup in Guinea-Bissau was likely led by Army Chief of Staff Antonio Indjai and motivated by discontent over Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior’s attempt to use the Angolan military presence in the country to bolster his own position

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The world in which we live is a chaotic place. The triple trauma of the food, fuel, and financial crisis has wreaked havoc in a number of unsuspecting economies. Bailouts and all manner of rescue packages are sweeping across Europe

Read the rest of Lighting Africa’s development path – By Jacqueline Musiitwa and Omolade Dada »

In 2006, she opened her left hand to reveal a jewel.  By the Albertine rift, hidden partly in the depths of the lake and within the arteries of the Nile was oil in Uganda. In 2012, six years later she

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Head of Africa Forecasting at Exclusive Analysis, Natznet Tesfay, believes that the coup in Mali is likely to delay elections by 6-12 months, hike mining taxes and raise terrorism risks for northern uranium and oil operations. In a major incident

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The arrival in town last week of a delegation of investors who met with Guinean president Alpha Conde is an indication that there is still appetite to invest in the West African nation, despite the prevailing sense of political risk

Read the rest of Guinea: Risk or Reward? The Mining Sector and Its Discontents – Kissy Agyeman-Togobo at Songhai Advisory »

Today is The Times’ much-anticipated CEO Summit Africa with one of the more intriguing panels focusing on resource nationalism: opportunity or threat? Both the Indonesian government’s recent efforts to set out a timeframe for foreign mining divestment, and the developing

Read the rest of Resource Nationalism in Africa: what it means for governments, companies and communities – By Jolyon Ford at Oxford Analytica. »