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Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe of Nigeria passed on this month. He was one of the brightest lights of the international trade community and a major influence for the conclusion of the…

IAB Europe Education & Training Committee has just launched its annual Human Capital in the Digital Environment report. The survey findings uncovered  a series of critical areas of the digital training and…

Angola is adopting an electronic payment system to facilitate the registration for import, export, and re-export trade, a difficult process due to administrative bureaucratic procedures.  With the new system, payment…

We have reported previously on the obscure but serious argument over “terminal dues”. These are the payments made by the national Post Office country of postage to the Postal Operator…

The communication regulator, ICASA, has slapped the MTN with an R5 million fine for not giving seven days’ notice before increasing its WhatsApp bundles in 2018. In April 2018 MTN launched…

Naspers has listed its global empire of consumer internet assets under the name of Prosus – and the jewel in the crown is a 31% stake in Chinese tech titan…

Direct airline flights between Africa and China have jumped over 600% in the past decade. More and more short-term Chinese tourists and students are visiting Africa. One favoured sport –…

In another major move by the UN General Assembly, delegates debated Climate Change and the urgent need for remedial action. Again UNCTAD has come out with a well-timed report, Commodities and Development Report…

At the UN General Assembly at the end of this month, the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, said he feared that the world was rapidly becoming split between those countries which…

Africa is rapidly urbanizing. Its rate of urbanization soared from 15% in 1960 to 40% in 2010, and is projected to reach 60% by 2050, according to the report “UN-Habitat, The…