WAMBUGU: Why technology is Africa’s greatest success story

 

Charles Brewer, Managing Director for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa.

*Ashish Thakkar, Founder and CEO of Mara Group, gave conference delegates interesting and thought-provoking insights

 DHL (http://www.dpdhl.com), the world’s leading logistics service provider, held its 5th annual Global Technology conference in Dubai last month, featuring a number of key sessions on doing business in Africa.

Under the theme of “Connecting Markets, Trends & People”, the conference hosted some 300...

Going by the long queues of vehicles stretching all the way to Ali Hassan Mwinyi road, it was undeniable that this event has for the last three years been a bid deal for locals. 

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The Executive Director of Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) Ms Valerie Msoka launches Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) II report in Dar es Salaam. SALIMA Ustazi who resides at Nachingwea ward in Ruangwa district, Lindi ...

>The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) may still be hunting down some of the most wanted individuals indicted or alleged to have taken part in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda which claimed the lives of nearly a million people.

 Lack of appropriate technology is one of the major challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry in the country.

South Africans have been paying tribute to their former leader, Nelson Mandela, who has died at the age of

In June, Kenya set a new African record. At $2 billion (about Ksh3.3 trillion), the country’s sovereign bond debut was four times oversubscribed. Only one month later, Senegal broke this high. Zambia and Cote d’Ivoire have been similarly successful in what some call an African bond bonanza.

>Being the richest man on the Continent, Mr Aliko Dangote could just take an indefinite sabbatical and let the money work for him for the rest of his life.

Africa has achieved exceptional economic growth over the past decade, averaging 4.5 percent a year and underpinned by prudent macroeconomic management.  Now we must achieve economic growth that is accompanied by significantly less poverty and greater prosperity for all the people of the continent.
With new discoveries of oil, gas, and minerals seemingly every month, we need to be able to extract, market, and invest the new-found earnings from these resources in higher quality education,...