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Economy

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    ClimateCongo-KinshasaEconomyEditor's Picks

    Congo’s oil auction: foiling climate colonialism or filling the coffers?

    By Kristof Titeca, Catherine Windey & Olivier Bahati Mastaki
    August 23, 2022
    The DRC has two main goals in selling oil blocks that overlap with the world’s second largest rainforest. Neither involves developing oil. On 28-29 ...
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    How useful is aid to Africa?

    By Nick Westcott
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    Mills’ latest book calls for donors to focus on democracies, but electoral systems can be as susceptible to corruption as autocracies. Since 1960, Africa ...
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    What will it take for monthly rent payment to work in Nigeria?

    By Immaculata Abba
    July 27, 2022
    Nigerians currently have to shell out a whole year’s rent in advance. Many renters want this to change, but landlords will need reassuring.   Renting ...
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    The world of work can (and must) be disability inclusive

    By Nicodemus Ong’angi Nyakundi
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    There is not just a moral but a strong business case for ensuring workplaces are inclusive. Companies that are do better business. Since I ...
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    Building houses while knocking down gender barriers in Zimbabwe

    By Fortune Moyo
    July 1, 2022
    The pandemic has accelerated generational shifts as more women join the once male-dominated construction industry. Last year, Charity Nyoni walked by a group of ...
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    EconomyMalawi

    How a communion wine shortage gave birth to an international brand

    By Charles Pensulo
    June 8, 2022
    Linga wine is a small family business in Malawi that punches well above its weight.  On a Friday afternoon, an elderly Margaret Ngwira emerges ...
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  • Fred Zziwa, a food vendor, adds tomatoes on top of fried eggs to make a rolex in Kabulengwa , Wakiso district, Uganda in April 2022. Zziwa says in the last three months prices of wheat flour and cooking oil have gone up he has to reduce the size of chapati to keep the same price for customers. Credit: Nakisanze Segawa/Global Press Journal.
    EconomyGPJUganda

    “Too little for too much”: The story of Uganda’s shrinking Rolex

    By Nakisanze Segawa
    June 6, 2022
    Higher food prices due to the war in Ukraine have prompted vendors to offer smaller portions, leaving customers with half-empty stomachs. Godfrey Kizito takes ...
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  • President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) with his predecessor, former President Jacob Zuma in 2017. Credit: GCIS.
    EconomyPoliticsSouth Africa

    What did we learn from South Africa’s exhaustive state capture commission?

    By Dirk Kotze
    May 16, 2022
    A four-year investigation has revealed the scope and nature of corruption like never before. South Africa’s judicial commission into state capture, known as the ...
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    EconomyTop story

    Austerity is not the answer to Africa’s colliding challenges 

    By Anthony Kamande
    April 22, 2022
    Countries are cutting billions in spending at a time when they should be investing massively in public services and decent jobs.  In a continent ...
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    EconomyTop story

    There is a better way to avoid tax avoidance

    By Tim Hirschel-Burns
    April 14, 2022
    Tax simplification would level the playing field between tax authorities and multinationals by relying on easily verifiable standards. With one of highest rates of ...
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