Kenya bets on rail transforming East Africa, makes biggest ever investment
Africa might be a century behind the Western curve, but visionary leaders are starting to make the same bets which transformed the world’s dominant economies.
Africa might be a century behind the Western curve, but visionary leaders are starting to make the same bets which transformed the world’s dominant economies.
In actions and words on his first tour of the world’s poorest continent, Pope Francis has sent a message to African leaders that they could do with less pomp and a bit more humility.
One of Africa Rising’s most vocal cheerleaders, food and drinks multinational Nestle, admitted to the Financial Times of London it significantly over-estimated the continent’s near-term growth potential.
General Electric, one of the US’s great industrial companies, appears to have taken a similar view to Singularity University’s ‘zoom in, zoom out’ strategy, when deciding to locate its African HQ in Nairobi rather than Sandton.
Investors should consider the exciting investment opportunities on the continent of Africa, as these can offer diversified and high growth investments and, after all, Africans themselves are already investing there.
On the edge of Kenya’s capital, two doors down from a gleaming display of luxury Porsche’s, Mobius Motor’s offers Africa’s answer to the continent’s roads.
Ayaimba couldn’t believe it when a man walked into her office, two days after being arrested for raping his 3 year old daughter, demanding she be returned.
General Electric (GE) plans to begin construction of a 100 MW wind power farm in Kenya early next year and expects it to be up and running within 18 months after that, a company executive said on Thursday.
Kenya could “leapfrog” ahead in the rankings of a World Bank survey on ease of doing business thanks to a drive to cut red tape, a leading business group said on Wednesday, after a relatively disappointing result this year.
When one of her mother’s drunken customers, in the one-room drinking den that doubles as their home in Nairobi, offered her a boiled egg in exchange for sex, she agreed