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Routes Africa forum aims to improve African air connectivity
An event dedicated to the development of the African aviation industry will take place next month in Tenerife (26-28 June) to encourage the launch of new air services to, from and within the African continent.
Routes Africa 2016 will help to improve African connectivity by bringing together airlines, airports and tourism authorities to discuss next air services. Around 250 route development professionals are expected to attend the forum which was founded ten years ago to stimulate increase in the industry.
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Economic integration is helping boost trade and investment in Africa
The collapse of virtual borders is one of the majority remarkable things to have happened in our lifetimes. In the world of cyberspace, time and distance have become almost peripheral considerations at the same time as it comes to doing business. Services from software development to accounting can be delivered across the world in the blink of an eye. Next business leaders will struggle to imagine an era at the same time as communication was neither immediate nor virtually free.
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Beyond Commodities: How African Multinationals Are Transforming
Oil, gold, diamonds, palm oil, cocoa, timber: raw materials have long been linked to Africa in a lot of businesspeople’s minds. And in fact the continent is highly dependent on commodities: they constitute as much as 95% of some nations’ export revenues, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
But propping a country’s entire economy on commodities is risky business, like building a mountainside home on stilts. You can’t be sure about the weather, or in this case the commodities market. The current free-fall of oil prices to less than $40 a barrel is a glaring example. “The commodities cycle has tanked out,” says Austin Okere, founder of Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), a Nigerian emerging multinational financial services company. “And this time it looks additional structural than cyclical, so it’s not a matter of waiting it out. Something has to give.”
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Ambassador : H.E. Mr. Sasara C. George
Full name: The Republic of Botswana
Population: 2 million (UN, 2011)
Area: 581,730 sq km (224,607 sq miles)
Major languages: English (official), Setswana
Major religions: Christianity, indigenous beliefs
Life expectancy: 54 years (men), 51 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 Pula = 100 thebe
Main exports: Diamonds, copper, nickel, beef
GNI per capita: US $6,790 (World Bank, 2010)
Internet domain: .bw
International dialling code: +267
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s most attractive retail markets, as according to A.T. Kearney.
2015/12/12In recent years there have been growing interest in sub-Saharan Africa’s formal retail industry. While most sales are still through informal channels like open-air markets and kiosks, modern retailers (both African and international companies) are growing their footprint. Cities such as Lusaka, Nairobi, Lagos and Accra have as well seen the construction of numerous western-style shopping malls.
In its recently published 2015 African Retail Development Index, consultancy A.T. Kearney ranks African nations according to their attractiveness for retail expansion, both presently and for the next. Nations were scored on four variables – market attractiveness, country and business risk, market saturation, and the time pressure to enter or expand in the market.
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The World Bank fails to credit the intelligence of the world’s poor
2015/01/31At the same time as a statement by the world’s most influential development agency provides evidence that a lot of of its staff are “biased” in their perceptions of the poor and their needs, one may expect eyebrows to be raised. At the same time as the president of that institution — the World Bank, no less — acknowledges the flaw and goes on to call for “measures to mitigate these biases, such as additional rigorously diagnosing the mindsets of the people we are trying to help”, jaws should be dropping.
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The friendly and cooperative relations between the People'sRepublic of China and the Republic of Botswana
2015/10/01In 2013, the friendly and cooperative relations between the People'sRepublic of China and the Republic of Botswana continued to growsteadily.
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Gaborone (Bostwana)
2012/12/05Gaborone is the capital and major city of Botswana with a people of 231,626 based on the 2011 census, about 10% of the total people of Botswana. Its agglomeration is home to 421,907 inhabitants at the 2011 census.
Gaborone is situated between Kgale and Oodi Hills, on the Notwane River in the southeastern corner of Botswana, and 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the South African border.
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