By Baher Kamal There is a tangled trafficking web that has been woven across the Sahel, which spans almost 6.000 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and is home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. This is…
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How private investors can access offshore equity and commodity markets safely
Structured products enable diversification into offshore markets while controlling risk. Any investor worth their salt understands the importance of diversification, particularly in a contemporary economic environment characterised by such volatility and uncertainty. Spreading investments across industries, asset classes and geographies is a key component of risk reduction in an investment portfolio, as should one investment…
The Agritech Innovators Bringing Transformative Change to the Continent’s Green Economy
Forbes Africa profiles some of Africa’s biggest agripreneurs, inventors, and agribusiness leaders changing the way we think about farming, food security and climate resilience. They have cultivated a passion for smart agriculture and are leading the charge for social change not only for the sector but for the continent – and for humanity’s sustainable future.…
Scholars Study the Political Dynamics of West Africa
Africa is often portrayed as a continent ravaged by war, terrorism, poverty and political instability. But over the past five decades few violent conflicts have occurred between states. In Europe, for comparison, there have been more than 25 inter-state conflicts since 1945. It’s true that Africa has seen 214 coups, the most of any region;…
Heavily pregnant woman who escaped from Sudan gives birth to ‘miracle baby’
A heavily pregnant woman who was shot at, escaped an overturned car and had to walk for hours in the middle of the night to reach a border crossing with her three-year-old daughter has given birth to a miracle baby, her husband has said.The woman had been trapped in the war-torn Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after…
US imposes sanctions on leader of Wagner group in Mali
The United States has imposed sanctions on the head of the Wagner group in Mali, accusing the Russian private army of using the country as a conduit for arms and military equipment for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.The US Treasury said Ivan Aleksandrovich Maslov works closely with Malian officials to build Wagner’s presence in Mali and…
World Cup security guards still jailed in Qatar after dispute over unpaid wages
Three World Cup security guards who were detained while trying to resolve a dispute over unpaid wages are still being held in Qatar four months after their arrest.Shakir Ullah and Zafar Iqbal from Pakistan, and an Indian national, have allegedly been sentenced to six months in prison and fined 10,000 riyals (£2,220) each.The findings, first…
‘I have been waiting a long time to be arrested’: Rwandan war criminal Fulgence Kayishema tracked to South Africa
The man known as Donatien Nibasumba, supposedly a Burundian refugee, was at his work as a security guard at a farm in the wine country outside Cape Town on Wednesday evening when he found himself surrounded by police in body armour carrying rifles.Fulgence Kayishema was arrested in Paarl, South Africa, on 24 May. Photograph: US…
Kissinger at 100: How his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid
The men who sat down for dinner at the Hotel Bodenmais in West Germany on 23 June 1976 were exclusively white, although the issue to be discussed was the path to majority black rule in Rhodesia. At the table was John Vorster, prime minister of apartheid South Africa. With him were ambassadors, diplomats and security…
Prembly
Prembly, Africa’s leading provider of compliance and digital security infrastructure has partnered with the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (NAMFISA) for the second and sought-after Fintech Square at the launch of NAMFISA Regulatory Sandbox. This innovative event centers on Fintech: The Africa Experience, and is designed to present pioneering innovations while helping to mitigate risks…