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African Liberty Editor, JJ Omojuwa, has been listed by global business platform Entrepreneur.com as one of the 10 African online entrepreneurs to watch in 2017. Omojuwa who is the Chief Executive Officer, The Alpha Reach, a Digital Media Company operating …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has underscored the importance of combating poverty in Africa as a way to stem the mass migrant flow to Europe. Merkel has made ties with Africa the focus of Germany’s G20 presidency.

Reducing poverty and conflict …

As Nigeria continues to grapple with the effects of a global slump in oil prices and navigate out of an economic recession that has spanned three quarters, the need to make governments at all levels smaller, less costly and more …

A kind of parallel universe is taking shape in Nigeria’s foreign-exchange market.

The African country’s traditional forwards market is facing competition from an upstart based on the new exchange-rate window policy makers opened six weeks ago. Bond investors and speculators …

Ivory Coast attracted almost $10 billion in bids for its Eurobond auction on Thursday in a sale that came less than a month after a four-day mutiny by soldiers, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The West African …

Ghana’s cocoa regulator said it is 10 billion cedis ($2.2 billion) in debt after the nation missed its production target in the previous season and as a slump in prices is weighing on revenues from the current crop.

Ghana Cocoa …

Kenya’s government agreed to swap loans it provided to Kenya Airways Ltd. for equity, a conversion that may give the state a controlling stake in the national carrier, Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich said.

The government will also guarantee 77 billion …

South Africa slipped into technical recession for the first time since 2009 after the economy contracted in the first quarter, led by weak manufacturing and trade sectors, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.

Africa’s most developed economy contracted by 0.7 …

In a plea to U.S. businesses to invest in Africa’s biggest market, Nigeria’s trade minister says that corruption is part of “yesterday’s story” in the West African country.

Nigeria, a country with the world’s seventh-largest population at over 180 million, …