There is intense competition by external powers to influence affairs in Africa and exploit its resources. The continent continues to be trapped in unviable fragmented markets and weak supply chains prompted by European containment investment models that focused on spheres of influence at independence, cold war era legacy, value systems driven by foreign policies, and the current fear of...
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Pope Francis on his recent trip to DR Congo urged global predators to lay their hands off Africa and stop choking the continent. Africa should not think that this will happen easily, for the...
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According to its recently published Africa Strategy, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) intends to “shape the future with Africa.” Unfortunately, the s...
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Africa is celebrating its 60th year anniversary since the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) now the African Union (AU). The late Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Jomo Kenyatta o...
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Kaspersky experts warn against a new wave of phishing scams on LinkedIn targeting people in the Middle East, Turkiye, Africa (META) region, with the promise of a dream job. Specifically, cyb...
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I made time to look at some literature on the theory of democracy during which I stumbled upon this very interesting definition: ‘a system of government in which the people of a country can...
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When historians look back at the twentieth century, they might reach the conclusion that the 1990s were a golden age for corporations. Multinational companies – especially those based in the...
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The telecommunications industry is in the midst of a digital revolution; one shifting from providing traditional communications services to becoming solution providers of diverse digital ser...
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Russia has initiated processes to restructure its educational programmes. The move is part of measures to ensure speedy training of a new generation of thinkers and highly qualified professi...
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