The COVID-19 pandemic brushed away any doubt as to the importance of functioning and productive pharmaceutical industries.
Countries across Africa, a continent which struggled to gain equal access to vaccines and that imports the majority of its packaged medicines from abroad, know all too well the
African logistics have struggled to cater to the country’s growing population and dynamic private sector for far too long. New research suggests that is about to change — and the benefits for the continent’s wider economy could be transformative.
That shift is thanks to the African
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is launching “Focus Africa” to strengthen aviation’s contribution to Africa’s economic and social development and improve connectivity, safety and reliability for passengers and shippers.
This initiative will align private and public stakeholders to deliver measurable progress in six areas.
With Africa’s share of the global workforce projected to become the largest in the world by 2100, it is critical for African countries to increase the uptake of digital technologies* to drive employment growth for the more than 22 million Africans joining the workforce each year, emphasizes a new
Despite the general grim outlook for air freight, it seems intra-regional demand for shipments passing through the key hubs in East Africa – Kenya, Ethiopia and Rwanda – are set to pick up again.
That is, at least as far as capacity and investment trends reveal.
Even as the air freight mode of transport compete with increasingly more reliable and cheaper sea freight, shippers think that there is huge value waiting to be unlocked if the fastest mode of transport positions itself as the premium logistics mode taking into account the very critical first and
African Development Bank’s new report calls for bold policy actions to help African economies mitigate compounding risks
Africa is set to outperform the rest of the world in economic growth over the next two years, with real gross domestic product (GDP) averaging around 4% in 2023
In these challenging times marked with inflation, climate change, pandemics, and geo-political tensions, one should be concerned with the situation of the poorest economies, in Africa notably. And rightly so, food insecurity, human capital losses, adaptation to climate change, conflicts, and growing macroeconomic imbalances capture most of the attention
Tanzania’s current administration has placed a huge emphasis on growing its economy via establishing trade relationships both within Africa and with global partners.
This business-like approach is so much so engraved in the ideology of the nation’s current government that in December, it was announced that
Two years after the world’s largest free trade area became operational with much fanfare on January 1, 2021, the implementation of the single continental market has been delayed for several reasons, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the lack of agreement on the rules of origin for some product lines