Mastercard has grown its acceptance network across Africa by 45 per cent in 2025 – a major milestone that brings millions ...

Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa has said that a largely informal economy in the West African regional bloc is driving the human trafficking market, said to be worth ...

JOHANNESBURG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Africa’s digital payments economy is set to grow from strength to strength according to a Mastercard-commissioned report by Genesis Analytics stating that the digital ...

According to the report, Africa is uniquely positioned to benefit from AI-driven transformation if adoption is aligned with ...

The largest economy in Africa, Nigeria, is grappling with a severe economic crisis, marked by a currency in freefall and inflation rates nearing 30%. What Happened: The Nigerian naira has plummeted to ...

Morocco’s Tanger Med, Africa’s largest and most developed industrial port complex, has been for years playing the “role of the locomotive” for the development of African special economic zones (SEZs), ...

Fully leveraging the economic activities involving Africa’s ocean, sea, and lake resources could help the continent’s development and increase job opportunities. (…) plus de 12 millions de personnes ...

Improved power availability helps bolster growth Bottlenecks at ports, on railways serve as drag Pension reform could boost consumption ahead 'Too early' to assess impact of new govt on growth ...

PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa's economy stagnated in the first quarter, eking out quarter-on-quarter growth of just 0.1%, as contractions in sectors like mining and manufacturing offset a strong ...

Mapi Gloricien lies in his mother’s arms in a hospital in Kinshasa, among the fastest-growing cities on Earth. Just days old, he’s one of an estimated 4.5 million children expected to be born in the ...

As South Africa‘s Government of National Unity (GNU) is set to enter its second year in mid-2025, cautious optimism is beginning to take root in Africa’s most developed economy. According to the South ...

Dr. James Bridgeforth holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served as an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech, the University of South Alabama, the University of Southern ...