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Citigroup Signals New Strategy for Expansion into Africa
Citigroup has given its strongest signal yet that Africa could feature in its global expansion strategy through acquisitions on the continent. The acquisitions would help build its transaction...
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South Africa and Kenya Ranked the Most Popular Destinations
According to research carried out by the Year Out Group the most popular gap year destinations are shifting, due in part to the number of people taking a career break, and also because of a shift in...
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The Business Summit Netherlands-Africa is the most prestigious Dutch conference on doing business in Africa in 2010. The Summit will cover Africa from the broad picture to specific industry insights,...
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GM Reorganizes Africa Operations to Capitalize on Growing Opportunities
General Motors announced today the restructuring of its business in Africa to capitalize on growing opportunities across the continent. Effective January 1, 2011, GM’s operations in Africa will be...
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Zain is Now Officially Airtel
Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, today launched the Airtel brand and unveiled the new brand identity across its 16...
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Femi Akinde
Femi Akinide has worked in a variety of high-level positions at well- known telecommunications and software firms in the world, including Gateway Communications, AT&T (Consultant), T-Mobile, and...
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Magatte Wade, born in Senegal, educated in France, launched her entrepreneurial career in the San Francisco Bay area. She is fluent and conducts business, in Wolof, French, and English.Magatte is...
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East Africa Com Conference Will Bring Together 650 Telecom Leaders from...
Tomorrow, over 650 telecom leaders from across East Africa will gather in Nairobi at East Africa Com conference (www.comworldseries.com/eafrica). Their agenda for the 2 days is to establish...
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Judith Aidoo - Private Investor and Media and Entertainment Entrepreneur
Judith Aidoo is a private investor (Caswell Capital Partners, LLC) and media and entertainment entrepreneur (Caswell Communications, Inc.) with holdings in radio broadcasting; television syndication;...
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Africa’s Francophone Countries Launch Mobile Applications Hackathon
It’s no surprise to most Africans that Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria are leading the pack when it comes to developing Africa’s Information, Communication and Technology Sector. This is especially...
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Mastercard Moves East
MasterCard Worldwide, today launched its official East African regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. This development brings the number of MasterCard offices across the African continent to five,...
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Obama’s Top Africa Man to Lead US Energy Companies on Trade Mission to Africa
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson will lead an Energy Trade Mission to Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana February 6-17. The delegation of U.S. government and...
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David Karangu Ivory Chevrolet
David Karangu could possibly be the only Kenyan immigrant to the United States that owns his own luxury plane. A toy purchased with the spoils from years of hard work and focus in the US car...
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A Different Drummer: Correlation (Or Lack Thereof) Between African Stock Markets
Like many investors, market volatility shook me into a silly stupor these past few years. Rather than taking advantage of price dips, all too frequently I just sat on the sidelines and watched my...
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Kenya Discovers Oil
Kenya’s President Kibaki, today announced that Oil had been discovered by Tullow Oil in the north eastern region of the Country. “This morning, I have been informed by the Minister for Energy that our...
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Tullow Oil plc (LSE: TLW) is a global oil and gas exploration company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It has interests in over 85 licences across 23 countries and in 2010 produced 58,100...
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Nairobi, Mombasa Luxury Real Estate are Global No. 1
When thinking about luxury real estate in a global context, there are few markets in the developing world that come to mind. However, two cities in East Africa made headlines late last week when...
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Agricon Global Aquires Canola Property Ghana Limited
Agricon Global Corporation (“Agricon,” formerly BayHill Capital Corporation) BYHL 0.00% announced today the completion of its acquisition of Canola Property Ghana Limited (“CPGL”) effective March 31,...
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InsightsAfrica: Google Launches African Internet Data Site
Google just launched InsightsAfrica.com, which helps users better understand the growing power of the internet in Africa. Especially as internet penetration rates continue to grow at a relatively high...
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Kenya’s Oil Find Sparks Interest in Remaining Blocks
Since striking oil last week, there has been a surge of interest in available oil blocks, according to Martin Heya, Commissioner of Petroleum for the Kenya Ministry of Energy. Last weeks find by...
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