February 2, 2012
Obama’s Top Africa Man to Lead US Energy Companies on Trade Mission to Africa
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson will lead an Energy Trade Mission to Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana February 6-17.
The delegation of U.S. government and private-sector executives will meet host country senior government officials to discuss challenges for U.S. private-sector investment in energy infrastructure projects.
Delegates from the American business community will [...]
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February 2, 2012
Mastercard Moves East
MasterCard Worldwide, today launched its official East African regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. This development brings the number of MasterCard offices across the African continent to five, with other offices operational in Cairo, Casablanca, Lagos, Johannesburg and now Nairobi.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga of Kenya welcomed MasterCard’s announcement. “We are pleased [...]
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July 10, 2011
Africa’s Francophone Countries Launch Mobile Applications Hackathon
It’s no surprise to most Africans that Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria are leading the pack when it comes to developing Africa’s Information, Communication and Technology Sector. This is especially true in the mobile application sub-sector. What we haven’t seen much of in the English media are the African Francophone countries participation in this sector [...]
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April 4, 2011
East Africa Com Conference Will Bring Together 650 Telecom Leaders from Across East Africa
Tomorrow, over 650 telecom leaders from across East Africa will gather in Nairobi at East Africa Com conference (www.comworldseries.com/eafrica). Their agenda for the 2 days is to establish strategies, set best practice benchmarks and find innovative ways of capitalising on the new networks and services in the fiercely competitive East African market.
Subscription growth remains high in [...]
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November 22, 2010
Zain is Now Officially Airtel
Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, today launched the Airtel brand and unveiled the new brand identity across its 16 African operations.
With the unveiling of the new brand identity Airtel, becomes the master brand for all the group’s 19 operations in Asia [...]
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November 22, 2010
GM Reorganizes Africa Operations to Capitalize on Growing Opportunities
General Motors announced today the restructuring of its business in Africa to capitalize on growing opportunities across the continent. Effective January 1, 2011, GM’s operations in Africa will be split into two sub-regions.
GM North Africa will include Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania. These countries will be integrated with GM Egypt under the [...]
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October 14, 2010
South Africa and Kenya Ranked the Most Popular Destinations
According to research carried out by the Year Out Group the most popular gap year destinations are shifting, due in part to the number of people taking a career break, and also because of a shift in terms of what people now want from a gap year.
A gap year is an extended break that some [...]
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October 11, 2010
Citigroup Signals New Strategy for Expansion into Africa
Citigroup has given its strongest signal yet that Africa could feature in its global expansion strategy through acquisitions on the continent. The acquisitions would help build its transaction services business in Africa once the U.S. government has sold off its stake in the bank.
Francesco Vanni d’Archirafi, Citigroup’s chief executive officer of global transaction [...]
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October 5, 2010
World Bank to Livestream Africa-Related Events During Annual Meetings
The World Bank will livestream two Africa-related events during this week’s Annual Meetings: ‘Eliminating the Budget Execution Deficit’ and ‘Can Africa Trade with Africa?’ On Thursday, October 7th (1:00pm-3:00pm EST) (Execution Deficit) and Friday, October 8th (12:00pm-1:30pm EST) (Trade), the events can be watched LIVE on www.livestream.com/WorldBankAfrica.
‘Eliminating the Budget Execution Deficit’ will examine how African [...]
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October 3, 2010
Qualcomm Opens Office in West Africa
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the opening of a Lagos office by QCOM Wireless Technologies Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary, to serve as the Company’s hub for West Africa business operations. The office will provide support to mobile operators and device manufacturers serving countries throughout the region, including Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Cameroon.Commenting on the [...]
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