Arqaam Capital seeking KSA, SA expansion deals

Ashish Thakkar is a big believer in sub-Saharan Africa and he thinks Silicon Valley should become a big believer, too. It's time for Africa, says Thakkar, who I first wrote about in August. And he really means it. Thakkar, 31, who's known as the ...

Date: Journalists from the United States, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa can win international reporting trips worth up to $10,000 for submitting the best stories on infectious diseases. Stories can address diseases including AIDS, tuberculosis and ...

As one of the most attractive markets in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, Mozambique has ample natural resources to encourage direct foreign investment. In its power sector, the country is heavily dependent upon hydroelectricity, its Cahora Bassa dam ...

Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is outpacing growth in the rest of the world, with the regions economy expected to grow by 6.1% in 2014, and The TotallyConcrete Expo is the cement, concrete and construction industrys soloution to keeping up ...

Transport costs are widely considered an important barrier to local economic activity but their impact in developing countries is not well-studied. This paper investigates the role of inter-city transport costs in determining the income of ...

Ghana needs a better understanding of how to strengthen the growth momentum in a multi-speed and tentative world in order to develop her societies and reduce poverty, the Vice President, Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has stated. Vice President ...

Though the sub-Saharan region has enjoyed GDP growth, as well as massive increases in foreign direct investment, over the past three years, the pressure to meet demand has not been supported by an equal investment in IT. So says Andy Monshaw, senior ...

Foreign affairs minister Dr Effron Lungu, Cuban Sub-Saharan African Region sub director Hector Igarza, former Cuban ambassador to Zambia Carmelina Rodriguez and Zambia's High Commissioner to Canada also accredited to Cuba Bob Samakai after meeting ...

Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai has set the tone for his party's election campaign, saying the terrain "will be determined by those that are able to give answers to Zimbabwe's challenges". Cape Town - Zimbabwe is probably the richest and most ...