Announcement

UNCTAD’s COVID-19 and Ecommerce: A Global Review A group of eTrade for all partners joined forces to assess how the impact of the pandemic was playing out in various regions of the world.…

SAITEX – Africa Trade Week (23-25 August 2021@ Ticketpro Dome) The EFSA is a strategic partner to SAITEX and will be hosting a series of workshops on Tuesday, 24 August…

Nestle’s Innovation Hub #ProjectUNO aims to enable Nestlé coffee brands to engage its youth market by providing digitally-driven solutions that provide customer experiences beyond the product and invites solution in…

Marketing Mix is holding its annual Township Marketing events at present (see below) and in an interesting development FNB has recently acquired Selpal a company which offers a point-of-sale device…

The effects of Brexit, the UK’s exit from the EU, continues to cause concern for African ecommerce shops selling to the UK and the EU. In the past the ‘one-stop-shop’…

At the start of the pandemic, personal shoppers in the diaspora noticed an interesting shift in spending habits among their clientele spread across Nigeria, Ghana, the UAE and South Africa.…

Kenya has launched a Business Regulatory Toolkit to help local and foreign businesses access information on business regulations in the country. The toolkit is a free online resource that will…

The backlash against a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) directive on cryptocurrencies (see February’s Newsletter) echoes a dilemma facing governments around the world: how to regulate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies…

The gig economy in Africa has grown significantly as a result of the COVID pandemic, offering employment for those shut out from formal and even informal opportunities. But women are…