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While China’s global competition has been a well-known fact, Beijing now signals an expansion of its ambitions in the Horn of Africa, as evidenced by Ethiopia’s recent acknowledgement that China has become the East African nation’s leading source of foreign direct investment, lar...

Chairman of the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) Walid Gamal El Din announced the signing of $487 million agreements and contracts between a number of Chinese companies and the industrial developer TEDA-Egypt for establishing new projects in the industrial zone of Al Ain Al Sokh...

More than eight hundred players in the business community are expected to converge in the UK for the third edition of the Ghana Investment and Opportunity Summit (GHIOS) slated for June this year.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday commissioned an oil plant billed as Africa's largest oil refinery, after years of delays and a week before stepping down from office.

If the digital transformation of companies was recognized as a strategic issue before the health crisis, only 48% of firms in 2019 perceived digital as an opportunity and were piloting a truly committed digital strategy.

Tensions have however been growing between Ethiopia and Sudan, where the crops are grown on the border of the two nations, after the Sudanese army occupied the land in late 2020, during the Ethiopia-Tigray war, writes Ahmed Soliman for Chatham House.

A new memorandum of understanding (MoU) inked by the Nairobi-based African Organization for Standardization (ARSO) and the Geneva-based International Trade Centre (ITC) aims to contribute to continent-wide efforts to design a ‘Made in Africa’ label and boost trade under the Afric...

Morocco has become among the top three exporting countries of fresh raspberries, according to latest data released by East Fruit online magazine.

The severity of the situation and the real probability that Cameroon may not be able to repay its debts was underscored in January 2019 when Cameroon unilaterally withheld debt service payments to China , to which the Export-Import Bank of China responded by freezing payments fo...