Category: Business

Heather Li is the bubbly, always smiling, endlessly energetic force of nature behind the Shanghai-based Dot Connector, a PR/marketing initiative focused on African tech start-ups and entrepreneurs in China. She's kicked off a new video series where she interviews young Africans ...

A new chart from China's National Bureau of Statistics indicates that Chinese construction companies are not earning as much from their African divisions as they did at the height of China-Africa economic engagement in 2015. Although the chart is ...

The Kenyan government released a pair of statistics yesterday that highlights the country's close interdependence with China and, for better and for worse, how that impacts the economy.  China Simultaneously Helps and Hurts the Kenyan Economy

Kenya's small-to-medium-sized enterprises are calling on the Chinese embassy in Nairobi for assistance to help resume cargo flights between the two countries in order to revitalize the supply chains on which they depend. Merchants complain that the current one flight a ...

Four years ago, Opera was most famous for Opera Mini, a simple data compression browser, gaining traction in African countries with high data costs. Today, Opera’s software holdings have developed into an interconnected nexus spanning file sharing, news, digital payments, ride hailing, food delivery and news.

African tech Twitter exploded with excitement yesterday when the top 50 finalists for the immensely popular African Business Heroes (ABH) award was announced. 22,000 people from every country across the continent registered for this year's competition, according to event organizers.

Executives from China's publicity-shy state-owned enterprises are following the lead of Chinese diplomats in Africa by setting up new Twitter accounts. Last week Kong Tao, the general manager of rail operations in Nigeria for the huge construction conglomerate CCECC, posted his first ...

For years, European companies, like others, have been steadily moving their production from China to lower-cost, less complicated manufacturing hubs in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. The massive disruption to global supply chains brought about due to the COVID-19 outbreak has only accelerated that ...

Regular readers will have noticed the almost daily announcements of Chinese infrastructure projects across Africa. While quantifying all these new contracts is a challenge, it does appear that China's state-run construction companies' African operations have been quite resilient during the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent economic crisis. ...

Recently, OPay, the Chinese-backed super app operating in Nigeria made an announcement that garnered plenty of attention. Best known for its lime-green ‘Uber for motorcycle taxis’ service, the company, which is backed by Softbank and Meituan Dianping (China’s other super ...

Supporters of Kenya's ailing Standard Gauge Railway produced a 20 minute-documentary that was broadcast on national TV this week in an attempt to persuade an increasingly skeptical public of the SGR's merits. The program was produced by ChamsMedia, ...

Zambian police on Wednesday arrested the third and final suspect accused of murdering three Chinese nationals last weekend at their clothing factory in the Makeni, a suburb of the capital Lusaka. Home Affairs Minister Stephen Kampyongo promised a full investigation into the attack.