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Rwanda is an attractive emerging market and on the right course to become one of the major players in the region. That is the conclusion of a group of foreign investors who have been on a three-day visit in the country.
Barely a year after the relaunch of Rwandatel's mobile phone network and MTN's tenth anniversary, Tigo last week added its blue to an already colorful telecommunications landscape.
Last week Rwanda signed one of the world's largest bio-fuel investment deals with an estimated value of US$250 million over the life time of the project.
For a long time now, we have heard whispers about the fabled master plan for Kigali City, but without seeing anything tangible. Last week, KCC has broken the silence.
The Ministry of Commerce in collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and partners will today celebrate World Standard and African Industrialization Day.
Vida Mensah, an executive of the giant steel company in Liberia ArcelorMittal, has won the 7th draw of the Cellcom "Live Your Dream" car raffle.
Public Works Minister, Samuel Kofi Woods, II on Saturday, November 21, 2009 visited five Counties, where rehabilitation of roads and bridges are ongoing.
Many farmers across the country are disillusioned about this year's trade season. They are not sure whether they will in fact have a trade season at all.
Banks should develop new products that would enable the poor people to access funds that are risk free. "Specially designed schemes such as crop insurance and the group based bank lending supported by low cost central bank refinance line can mitigate the risks for the poor people," says Dr Atiur Rahman, the governor of the central bank of Bangladesh.
There are investment opportunities for supplying fuel to the various airlines that fly into the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam.
RwandAir has cancelled a leasing contract with Kenya based Jetlink Express after one of the aircrafts crash landed at Kigali International Airport (KIA).
East African Community (EAC) Common Market Protocol that paved way for the free movement of goods, labour and capital becomes operational starting July 1, 2010.
MTN Rwanda has acquired the first and largest syndicated loan of US$18 million from six local banks for upgrading its network.
Plans for the privatization of the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) are in top gear in a move expected to raise the dwindling investor confidence and improve performance to world class standards.
The Sudanese-born British telecommunications businessman and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim recently called for the dissolution of certain African states.
Tea firms are projecting a dip in performance over the second half of the year due to an anticipated increase in the supply of the commodity.
The energy regulator plans to extend the electricity feed-in-tariff to cover geothermal sources in addition to wind and biomass.
The launch of outpatient medical insurance cover by National Hospital Insurance Fund is set to pave the way for stiff competition in Kenya's middle class-leaning medical insurance industry.
Cooking gas buyers will from Tuesday be free to exchange their cylinders at any Total, OiLibya, KenolKobil, BOC, Shell and National Oil outlets regardless of brand, in a move aimed increasing access to the product and bring down prices.
The blending of petrol with ethanol will be re-introduced in the Kenyan market next March in a move that will cushion motorists against oil products' price volatility and offer local alcohol distillers a bigger market.
African oil output will rise sharply in the coming years if new projects start up as expected and tension continue to ease in heavyweight supplier Nigeria.
Haco Industries has diversified into the baby food market to grow its profits as its beauty care products face stiff competition from cheap imports and counterfeits.
The obsession with factors of production even when they do not make economic sense appears to have shaped the evolution of corporate Kenya since the dawn of liberalisation two decades ago.
The clamour for price controls on essential goods could cut down production and affect their supply in the long term, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Njuguna Ndung'u has warned.
Too many players in the fibre industry could herald a price war and increase instances of sabotage, analysts warn.
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