Assessment Reports

Readers will recall that Twitter was banned in Nigeria in 2021 for 9 months due to a spate with the President. Now Twitter Facebook and Tiktok will be required to…

Nigeria has moved to ban foreign models and voiceover artists from advertisements in the country. The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCN) announced the plan in a statement this month,…

There is a growth of software engineering talent in Africa in the last decade thanks in part to the work of companies like Andela that have helped produce the continent’s…

An entrepreneur in Cote d’Ivoire has created the country’s first locally made smartphone, which aims to improve accessibility with voice commands in local languages for users who cannot read and…

One in every three Kenyan shillings spent by consumers, businesses, and the government in Kenya in the first 6 months of this year moved through mobile money, cementing the country’s…

The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, spoke at this event, outlining the current situation that Customs administrations around the world face, including supply chain…

Central banks from the East African Community (EAC) are reportedly unsure if plans to introduce a single currency for the region by the year 2024 will be realized. The central…

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched the first-ever comprehensive tool that measures how easy, or hard, it is to do business between African countries. The ACBI has 3…

PwC South Africa’s South Africa Economic Outlook 2022 report reports that local container shipments for export in SA declined by 17.5% year-on-year during the second quarter of 2022 as port activity…

There are at present 8 RECs in Africa, and all overlap membership, creating both opportunities, services, and policies, and also increasing rivalries. The 11-member Economic Community of Central African States…