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Soundcloud page of Business Fleet Africa special features editor, Tristan Wiggill. Topics covered include fleet management, road transport, logistics and supply chain issues in South Africa.
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The East Africa Business Podcast: African Start ups | Investing | Entrepreneurship | Interviews
Sam Floy: Entrepreneur in East Africa
A podcast interviewing entrepreneurs and business leaders in the emerging market of East Africa. Host Sam Floy showcases companies operating across Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Find conversations with companies ranging from solar power and food production to smoothies and toothpicks.
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The business potential of Africa is tremendous in all sectors, including energy, infrastructure, agriculture, natural resources, and information and communications, offering opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs. Africa has the potential to ensure its own food sufficiency and be a major supplier in global food markets. Similarly, the continent has the world’s largest reserves of vanadium, diamonds, manganese, phosphate, platinum-group metals, cobalt, gold, aluminum, and chromium, of ...
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Each week, through interviews with leaders, club owners, agents, marketing executives, and entrepreneurs we dive deep into the business of African football.
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Stories and analyses of African technology companies
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We create programs and services that set the standard of education and training for salon business owners and hairdressers in Nigeria by teaching them to explore or pursue career opportunities in the industry.
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Knowledge Bandits: Inspiring Stories from African Entrepreneurs on Doing Business in Africa
Arum Galadima: African Entrepreneur | Blogger | Marketer
Arum Galadima is the Founder and Host of the Knowledge Bandits podcast, a weekly podcast where he interviews African entrepreneurs on the Continent and in diaspora. Knowledge Bandits is inspiring African entrepreneurs all over the world to take their next leap.
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Syria’s new defence minister says it would not be right for US-backed Kurdish fighters based in the country’s northeast to retain their own bloc within the broader integrated Syrian armed forces. Murhaf Abu Qasra says that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces was procrastinating in its handling of the complex issue. SDF commander Mazloum Abdi (…
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TikTok restored service in the United States after briefly going dark, as a law banning the wildly popular app on national security grounds came into effect. TikTok credited President-elect Donald Trump, who retakes power on Monday, for making the reversal possible — though the outgoing administration of President Joe Biden had earlier said that it…
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Tanzania has dismissed a World Health Organisation report of a suspected new outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus in the north-west of the country. Tanzania's Health Minister Jenista Mhagama says after samples were analysed, all suspected cases were found negative for Marburg virus. Tanzania experienced its first Marburg outbreak in March 2023 …
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The FCT Minister Nyesom Wike says Vandals who damaged and stole transmission cables throwing the Federal Capital Territory into darkness will learn their lessons. He says the arrested persons would not be charged with stealing but economic sabotage. The minister says the vandals are threatening the stability of the nation’s capital city and would b…
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The World Bank has pledged $500 million to Nigeria’s ambitious 90,000km fibre optic project by Q3 2025. This contribution, while significant, covers only part of the $3.2 billion required for the project. A coalition of development finance institutions (DFIs), including the Islamic Development Bank and the African Development Bank, have also expres…
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European foreign ministers have agreed to meet at the end of January to discuss lifting sanctions on Syria as foreign ministers and top diplomats from Western countries and the Middle East convened in Saudi Arabia in the first such regional meeting since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad last month. Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign pol…
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The country’s headline inflation for December 2024 slowed to about 24.1%, down from 25.1% in November. December’s figure was the lowest since 2022. The latest inflation rate has raised hopes of the first interest rate cut since 2022. The Central Bank of Egypt has held its interest rates since March 2024. The Egyptian government also agreed to cost-…
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Nigeria’s justice ministry says close to $53m in alleged illicit funds recovered from Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke will be used to fund public services. The money is being sent back to Nigeria from the US, whose authorities allege that Alison-Madueke enriched herself, and others, while leading Nigeria's state oil firm by awa…
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The President of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, says Nigeria has secured $7.6bn in investment interests at the Africa Investment Forum 2024, which took place in Rabat, Morocco, from December 4 to 6, 2024. He expressed optimism about the potential impact of the investment interests, highlighting the presence of several Nigerian s…
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The Federal Government has approved four airlines as official air carriers for pilgrims of the 2025 Hajj. The Executive Chairman, of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Prof. Abdullahi Usman says the four airlines were selected out of the 11 companies that submitted applications to transport Nigerian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for Muslim pilgrim…
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Syria’s new Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani has called on the United States to lift crippling sanctions on his country, as he visited Qatar as part of a regional trip to seek support after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. He says these sanctions constitute a barrier and an obstacle to the rapid recovery and development of the Syrian people wh…
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Somalia's foreign minister says the diplomatic dispute between Ethiopia and Somalia that had led to tense regional relations has been resolved. Ahmed Moalim Fiqi's says Somalia had made no concessions. Ethiopia has not commented on the Somali claim, but said the two countries had agreed to "strengthen bilateral relations". Ethiopia has thousands of…
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Outgoing President Nana Akufo-Addo says All African passport holders are now able to visit Ghana without needing a visa. He announced the plan last month but in his final state-of-the-nation address he said that the policy had come into effect at the beginning of the year. Visa-free travel within the continent has long been an aspiration for those …
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The Federal Government has increased the allocation to group life assurance by 80 per cent in the proposed Appropriation Bill for 2025. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, revealed that the N9.6bn was for 12 local insurance firms to cover the federal workers in case of unforeseen eventualities in the course of thei…
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The military has expressed determination to explore ways to harness the skills of law-abiding citizens engaged in the local production of firearms and military-grade equipment even as it is committed to putting an end to the production and circulation of illegal arms in the country. Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa, reiterated that …
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Malawi's government is demanding the astonishing sum of $309bn in unpaid taxes and royalties from a US-based gemstone company for rubies exported from the southern African state over the last 10 years. Columbia Gem House, a family-owned business which says that it upholds fair trade practices, dismissed the claim as "baseless and defamatory". Attor…
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The net foreign exchange inflow to the Nigerian economy in the third quarter of the year decreased by 2.97 per cent to $14.46bn from $14.89bn in the preceding quarter. The Central Bank of Nigeria in its third-quarter economic report reports that on a quarter-on-quarter basis, net foreign exchange in the third quarter decreased by 2.97 per cent howe…
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The Federal Government lifted the ban on mining activities in Zamfara State five years later. The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, stated that Nigeria has much to gain from reawakened economic activities in a highly mineralised state like Zamfara imbued with vast gold, Lithium, and copper belts. The minister explained that the pr…
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#78: MNT-Halan - How the lending platform is providing financial services across Egypt and other developing markets
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Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about MNT-Halan, the Egyptian lending & financial services company. We’ll explore the MNT-Halan story across the following areas African and Egyptian financial sector context MNT-Halan’s early history Product & monetization strategy Competitive positioning & potential exit options Outlook This episode was record…
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South Korea's constitutional court has begun trial proceedings for the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was suspended for declaring martial law and plunging his country into political turmoil. The court now has six months to decide whether to remove Yoon or reinstate him. Yoon's ruling People Power Party (PPP) has been grappling with the…
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Three West African states ruled by military leaders have announced visa-free travel and residency rights for citizens in the 15-member regional bloc Ecowas, ahead of the trio leaving the group. The leaders of the states - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - said the visa and residency decision had been taken in the spirit of friendship, and to strengthe…
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The Federal Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, has secured over $600m in foreign agricultural loans in 2024 to boost food security and rural development. The government obtained a $134m loan facility from the African Development Bank to enhance seed and grain production nationwide. The Federal Government, through the…
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President of the ECOWAS Commission Omar Touray says Nigeria has paid its accrued debt to the Economic Community of West African States, totaling ₦85 billion. He says while the community had suffered a slow response from member states in remitting their levies, Nigeria, under the leadership of President Tinubu, had cleared its levies from 2023 to da…
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President-elect Donald Trump says he would have to deport all undocumented immigrants in the United States, as he doubled down on his hardline campaign pledges including ending birthright citizenship. He insist he would end birthright citizenship — enshrined in the US Constitution — “if we can, through executive action,” calling it “ridiculous.” Tr…
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The chief prosecutor of the South Korea's corruption investigation bureau has ordered a travel ban to be imposed on President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is currently under investigation in the wake of his shock martial law declaration last week. Travel bans have also been imposed on several senior officials in Yoon's administration. Tens of thousands of pe…
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Islamist-led rebels declared that they had taken Damascus in a lightning offensive on Sunday, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. Residents in the Syrian capital were seen cheering in the streets of Damascus, as the rebel factions heralded the departure of “tyrant” Assad and “declared the city o…
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