Nielsen: GDP, Population and Governance Data Alone Are Not Enough to Predict Brand Success in Africa

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-The scope and sample countries have been vastly expanded from a base of 8 countries in the past years to 22 countries covering every leading African economy

Brand Africa (www.brandafrica.org) is to release its highly anticipated 4th Brand Africa 100:  Africa’s Best Brands rankings of the Top 100 Most Admired and Most Valuable brands in Africa at a Gala event at Sandton Convention Center on 22 October 2015. 

The rankings, first launched in 2011 at the second Brand Africa FORUM, have been...

Child under nutrition caused by hunger is causing an estimated loss of between 1.9 per cent and 16.5 per cent of gross domestic products (GDP) among African countries as costs to health and productivity per year, a new study shows.

Booming population brings challenges and opportunities

Progress in African governance has hit a plateau, while more than a third of African countries are backsliding, an annual index measuring key development factors showed on Monday.

Is Africa’s young population a risk or an asset?

By Special Reporter, Addis Ababa
The Heads of State and Government of the African countries participating in the APRM process will meet in Addis Ababa today on the margins of the 24th AU Summit. The theme of this year's meeting will be "2015 Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Agenda 2063" which is in line with APRM's thematic objective of promotion of women empowerment and gender equality.
Currently, there are 34 countries participating in the process and Ivory Coast is expected...

Brand South Africa joins the rest of the country in condemning the acts of violence

 Brand South Africa (http://www.southafrica.info) joins the rest of the country in condemning the acts of violence that have been levelled against some foreign national residing in some of the nine provinces of South Africa.

We assure all our partners in the continent that South Africa stands firmly against all intolerances such as racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism. As such security forces are hard...

>Tanzania has at last started walking the talk in re-branding itself as one of Africa’s leading tourist and business hubs.