East Africa: Broadband Internet Dreams to Come True

Enhanced high-speed Internet is coming to East and Southern Africa as early as June 2009 by way of a new undersea fiber optic cable linking the continent to India and Europe. Read more »

Kenya: Internet Rollout Brings Software Boom

Although most of Africa still lacks access to high-speed Internet, Kenya's once-neglected technology sector is booming, thanks in part to a growing group of some of the region's… Read more »

Liberia: American Investors Plan Luxury Resort

Liberia, just years removed from civil war, may not seem like an ideal place to open an all-inclusive luxury resort. But one group of American entrepreneurs want to change that… Read more »

Liberia: U.S. to Debate New 'Seeds' for Development

Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., an Illinois Democrat who is a member of the United States House of Representatives' Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export… Read more »

South Africa: Leaders Deal With Bars to Nigerian Business

Obstacles to Nigerians doing business in South Africa appear to have received as much attention in talks during President Umaru Yar'Adua's state visit to South Africa as recent… Read more »

Africa: Why China Beats Its Competitors

Low costs give Chinese investors in Africa a competitive advantage over their counterparts from other countries, a Chinese analyst told the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Cape… Read more »

Africa: Lonrho Plans Comeback

Among international companies operating in Africa, Lonrho has long enjoyed a high profile. Built up by colorful businessman Roland 'Tiny' Rowland, it was an early business… Read more »

South Africa: Chinese to Invest R36.7 Billion In Local Bank

In a huge deal for South Africa and the continent, one of China's major banks is to buy a one-fifth share of Africa's largest bank. Read more »

Liberia: Despite Obstacles, All Ingredients Are in Place for Mittal to Succeed

A key part of the Liberian government's recovery drive focuses on well-managed exploitation of the country's vast natural resources. Iron ore production began in Liberia in… Read more »

Liberia: Significant New Investment Deals Signal Economic Turnaround

When Richard Tolbert was tapped by then President-elect Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to head Liberia's National Investment Commission in late 2005, many friends questioned why he… Read more »

Mozambique: President Promotes Private Enterprise, Investment

On a continent often described by its problems, many countries, including my own, would rather be defined by the solutions they adopt and the decisions they are implementing. Read more »

Africa: Continent Needs Good Policies, Investment, Says Report

Good government policies, better access to finance and more infrastructure are all needed if Africa is to expand its economy. Corruption and lack of skills, energy and transport… Read more »

Nigeria: Ex-Im Bank Denies Approving Loan for Police Fund

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has disputed a recent report that it has granted a loan to Nigeria's Presidential Committee on Police Equipment Fund. Read more »

Liberia: Forum Spotlights Country's Readiness To Do Business

A one-day conference focused on private sector opportunities in Liberia drew an overflow crowd of 400 registrants last month in Washington, DC. The turnout raised hopes that… Read more »

Liberia: Private Sector Forum Sells Out As Sirleaf Arrives in Washington Seeking Debt Relief

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is making a return visit to Washington this week with an urgent agenda. To deliver the jobs and services she sees as essential to building… Read more »

Africa: Time for a New Story to Be Told

Average economic growth of more than five percent, record flows of foreign direct investment and stock markets that routinely outperform London, New York and Tokyo. This is Africa… Read more »

Cape Verde: Well-Governed African Nations Merit Attention, Says Prime Minister

"In African countries at-large there is not close attention being given to countries that have good government," Cape Verde Prime Minister, Jose Maria Neves said Thursday… Read more »

Ghana: Kufuor Says Millennium Challenge Compact Provides Boost to Country's Economic Progress

The following is a transcription of the press briefing by Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor on August 4, 2006 at the Wyndham Hotel, Washington, DC. At the briefing, which was… Read more »

Africa: Former U.S. President and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tie African Development to Investment, Capacity Building

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's foreign minister and former finance minister, used the occasion of a summit of African and African American… Read more »

Africa: African Union Chairman Expresses Optimism, Pushes Investment

President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, current chairman of the African Union (AU), spoke on developments on the continent as well as investment opportunities in… Read more »

Africa: Stakeholders Seek Ways To Broaden Agoa Opportunities

When the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) was enacted in 2001, the legislation "changed U.S. political discourse with African countries from begging bowl to business… Read more »

Africa: Investors Want to See Good Practices Sustained, Africa Bank President Says

Not enough attention is being paid to African success stories, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz told an Africa investment forum last week. Citing a decline in active armed… Read more »

Africa: Diplomats Stage 'Africa Week' in Washington to Showcase What Africa Has to Offer

The African Union, whose members include 53 African nations, is this week marking the anniversary of the founding on May 25, 1963 of its predecessor, the Organization of African… Read more »

Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Oprah's Wednesday Broadcast, Continues Push for Investment and Rebuilding Assistance

During a two-day private visit to Chicago last week, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf taped an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show that will air on Wednesday. Read more »

Liberia: Allen Brown Puts His Faith and His Money in His Country's Need for Lodging [AllAfrica Profile]

Crunching across shell-encrusted gravel toward a ruined, beachfront mansion not far from downtown Monrovia, the capitol of Liberia, Allen Brown II looks like a happy man. Never… Read more »