The Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Government of Burkina Faso are organising an Ad hoc Experts’ Group Meeting on May 16-17 in...
PwC’s Africa Business Agenda report shows that 85% of African CEOs (Global: 85%) are confident in their own company’s prospects for revenue growth over the next 12 months Africa’s CEOs are confident that...
The NollywoodWeek Film Festival (www.NollywoodWeek.com) has announced a strategic partnership with UBA’s REDTV ahead of the 5th edition of the festival which takes place in Paris from May 11-14th, 2017. “We share a common vision,”...
The United Nations and the African Union recently signed a new landmark framework to strengthen the partnership between the two organizations on peace and security pillars and better respond to the changing dimensions and evolving...
United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, has appointed Vera Songwe as ECA’s Executive Secretary. The Cameroonian economist and banking executive is the first woman to ever serve in this role. According to...
Overall, there was a 17% increase in the number of Fortune 500 companies in MEA in 2016 compared to 2015, with Johannesburg being the leading destination for Africa The Middle East Africa (MEA) region...
PLEASE IF YOU ARE NOT USED TO HANDLING “INCONVENIENT EMPIRICAL TRUTHS” DO NOT READ BEYOND HERE FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR EMOTIONAL COMFORT By Professor Samuel Zalanga I lament your situation. In the past...
By Samuel Zalanga PLEASE IF YOU ARE NOT USED TO HANDLING “INCONVENIENT EMPIRICAL TRUTHS” DO NOT READ BEYOND HERE FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR EMOTIONAL COMFORT: I lament your situation. In the past fifty...
By Samuel Zalanga By August 19th, 2013, I am exactly twenty years in the United States and the state of Minnesota, having arrived here on August 19th, 1993, with only one luggage, and my...
In the Mountain of fire and Miracles Ministry, for as long as I can remember (which isn’t too long), there is an annual program which takes place on the days when the similar last...
