French President Emmanuel Macron offered a bold and new vision of France’s relationship with Africa, speaking at an exclusive session hosted by the Tony Elumelu Foundation in Lagos today.
The African Development Bank President, Akinwumi Adesina, has instituted a special prize for excellence in leadership in memory of Tonia Kandiero, late Director General of the Bank’s Southern Africa Regional Development and…
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) announces the finalists of the sixth Empretec Women in Business Awards.
Development finance institution of the United States government known as, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), today launched its ‘Connect Africa’ initiative which will mobilize more than $1 billion to projects in Africa.…
Ethiopia was the first stop of a four-nation President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) fact-finding trip to Africa led by U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Gilbert…
The 12th edition of the annual Ethiopian Diaspora Business Forum will this year focus on what roles the Diaspora may have in the future socio-economic landscape of the changing Ethiopia, organisers announced…
Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda offer investors a reward score above the African continent’s average, according to the 2018 Africa Risk-Reward Index from Control Risks and Oxford Economics.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who is on official visit in Ethiopia, signed a $3 billion investment agreement…
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. today launched Nissan Sustainability 2022, a plan to reduce the company’s environmental impact, strengthen diversity and inclusion, and enhance governance.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to West Africa fell by 11% to $11.3 billion in 2017 as compared to the previous year, according to World Investment Report 2018 released today.
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to Africa slumped to $42 billion in 2017, a 21% decline from 2016, says World Investment Report 2018.
Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows fell by 23% in 2017, to $1.43 trillion from $1.87 trillion in 2016, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade’s (UNCTAD’s) World Investment Report 2018.
In a major policy shift, the Government of Ethiopia decides to liberalize major state monopoly companies including Ethiopian Airlines, Ethio Telecom, Ethiopian shipping Lines and Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation.
In Summary – In 2007 Ethiopia introduced biofuel development strategy. Not long after, the non-oil producing country began promoting the availability of close to 24 million of hectares of land for global…