A year since launching, uKheshe, South Africa’s QR cash card and microtransaction platform, has left a significant imprint on South Africa’s unbanked and underbanked
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Sub-Saharan African countries show high-level confidence in business environment
Africa needs to flourish its business environment to enter a sustainable development path. (Image source: nielvdw/Adobe Stock)
A survey of more than 350 business leaders across five of some of Africa’s fastest-growing economies reveals a high degree of optimism – 81 per cent report that the business situation in their country is good or satisfactory, despite ongoing and well-documented challenges
African Economic Conference: A clarion call for action to tackle Africa’s youth jobs crisis

The conference stressed on the fact that joblessness could result in unrest and conflict. (Image source: AfDB)
The 2019 African Economic Conference (AEC) opened in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh on Monday with a call on African policymakers to take bold steps to tackle red-tape and high startup costs in order to create decent and well-paying jobs for the continent’s youth
Coca-Cola CEO defines Africa as company’s future growth driver

James Quincey, chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola; a Nigeria Bottling Company sales representative and Zoran Bogdanovic, Coca-Cola Hellenic CEO during a market visit at Maryland in Lagos. (Image source: Coca-Cola)
The Global CEO and chairman of the Coca-Cola James Quincey culminated a tour to Africa last week with an aim to explore the vast opportunity that the continent presents in driving it’s growth strategy over the next decade
Blue economy can be a site of economic production, says ECA

Namibia’s fisheries is the third largest income earner and contributes about 15 per cent of total exports. (Image source: Arek Socha/Pixabay)
The blue economy, the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth, in Africa has the potential to be a site of economic production, linking small, medium and big production firms to promote poverty alleviation, equality and better living standards for the people, according to the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) director for Southern Africa (SRO SA) Said Adejumobi