Hunger ‘eats up 16.5 per cent of Africa GDP’

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Tanzania's economy continued to register strong macro-economic performance in 2014 with increased receipts from exported goods and services, President Jakaya Kikwete said in Dar es Salaam on Friday. Addressing heads of diplomatic missions and ...
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New report shows hard retail data, consumer needs and behavior, combined with macro-economic datasets, are better indicators of opportunity and success in African markets

For brands eager to tap into the growing African markets and the region’s estimated 350 million middle class consumers, relying solely on macro-economic data such as GDP growth, population trends and regulatory governance data to identify opportunities and predict success can lead to costly missteps, according to a new...

Africa still has some of the highest rates of malnutrition and if nothing is done to curb the high numbers, there will be 40 million children malnourished by the year 2020, Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, has said.

Congo-Brazzaville, Guinea, Mali and Niger agree to a micro-tax on oil, gold, phosphate and uranium to finance a UN fund to fight malnutrition.

Conflicts, floods and failed rains caused by El Nino have sparked a dramatic rise in the number of people going hungry in east Africa, especially in drought-hit Ethiopia, the United Nations said Thursday. El Nino, a global weather pattern that periodically wreaks havoc, is expected to last until early 2016.

US rapper 50 Cent uploads a video on Instagram showing construction work on what he says is his new house in Africa, despite filing for bankruptcy in the US.

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The cost of conflict has reached a record $14.3tn, more than 13% of world GDP, a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace says.