Robert Besseling, executive director at EXX Africa, has forecasted on political, security and economic risk across all African countries
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Enhancing impact: digitalisation, investment and intra-African trade

The event focus on the advancement of women in Africa as innovators and entrepreneurs. (Image source: AWIEF)
The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) opened in Cape Town on 29 October 2019 with stirring calls from speakers for women to move from having conversations about economic empowerment to radical action
Doing business in Africa: World Bank forecast in 2020

Nigeria and Togo among top global improvers, according to a recent World Bank study. (Image credit: Adobe Stock)
African economies continued to improve their business climates, with the region’s largest economy, Nigeria, earning a place among the year’s top global improvers alongside Togo, according to the World Bank Group’s Doing Business study
ECA, AUC pledge full support to Zimbabwe on AfCFTA implementation

The success in implementing the AfCFTA strategy depends on the implementation of important policy documents on which the strategy is anchored. (Image source: Murray Foubister)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) have assured Zimbabwe of continued technical support in assisting the country in its efforts to develop a national strategy to benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya named rising stars of global trade

The bank stated that Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya have improved their trade readiness. (Image source: Roman Boed/Flickr)
Côte d’Ivoire is the country that has increased its trade growth potential most quickly over the last decade, according to new research by Standard Chartered