Nbr. 415, January - January 2015

Index

• 40%.
• Angola.
• Cameroon's young inventor honoured.
• E Africans race to build hybrid vehicle.
• Ghana fixes self-assessment date.
• Lake Kivu set to power Rwanda.
• Namibia.
• Nigeria.
• Recent African M&A deals.
• Rwanda.
• Tanzania to ban gems exports.
• Uganda.
• [Cartoon].
• $11m research lab to open this year.
• $5.7bn.
• 15 African countries are likely to outpace Chinese growth in the next five years.
• 97%.
• Ethiopian wins award.
• Low-cost carrier flies new routes.
• New software to beat pirates.
• Of South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, South Africa has the largest overall gambling market as well as the largest land-based casino gambling market.
• S Africa/Algeria sign on for research.
• Spend to reach $180bn.
• $20bn.
• $3.7tr.
• Africell seeks US private equity.
• Almost half of the growth in electricity generation in sub-Saharan Africa to 2040.
• American Tower buys Bharti's Nigerian telecom towers.
• Axa buys Nigerian insurer Mansard.
• Coke, SABMiller strike Africa deal.
• Ghana plans to integrate its oil and gas assets.
• Indian group to power Mozambique.
• Nigeria solar project gets go-ahead.
• Slowdown in China could hurt Africa.
• Steinhoff to buy Pepkor for $5.7bn.
• The Dangote Group now expects an oil refinery it is building in Nigeria to come on-stream in late 2017 or the first half of 2018.
• Uganda tops the list of most ethnically diverse countries, home to more than 40 different ethnic groups, according to 11 years of research at Harvard University.
• US summit set for this month.
• $8m.
• $97bn.
• According to London Stock Exchange, there are 115 listings of companies focused on sub-Saharan African markets.
• Africa's largest free trade area launched.
• E-weather data to help farmers.
• FAO to help E African youth.
• Indian state-owned mining giant, Coal India (CIL).
• Kumba Iron Ore started moving more than 500 households from the west of its Sishen mine to a new precinct in the nearby town of Kathu as part of plans to raise output.
• Nigeria has signed a $12bn deal with China Railway Construction Corp to construct a 1,402 km West African coastal railway.
• South Africa lost an estimated $150m worth of resources through the disposal of waste to landfill in 2012.
• The African Development Bank will loan Rwanda $74.47m to finance the first phase of Rwanda's Transport Sector Support Project.
• The first diamonds have been exported from Aim-listed Stellar Diamonds' 75%-owned Baoule project, in Guinea.
• The government will publish industry-specific limits on ownership in its black empowerment laws within months.
• $1.5tr.
• 5.1%.
• Africa joins forces to launch Africa Regional Integration Index.
• Cover story: Africa's Think-Tanks.
• Cover story: Africa's Top 100 Banks.
• Ethiopia says it expects coffee exports for its 2014/15 crop to hit a record high because of drought and disease stifling crops in Latin America.
• Firefox expands into Africa.
• Health insurance expanding.
• Mimosa seeks $5m.
• Seychelles is state-of-the-art.
• The Horn of Africa's population doubles.
• A silver lining to the oil cloud?
• Crunch time for African Cities.
• The Chinese example.
• Smart cities in a smart Africa.
• Will Africa take the lead in the Internet of Things? The emergence of connected hardware, from mobile phones to cars, could take off in African societies looking to make more efficient use of resources and money, but the technology will need to become more secure and more reliable before there is widespread adoption.
• Cape Town--not just a pretty face any more.
• A 21st century approach to infrastructure: skills transfer, human capacity development and the creation of jobs are all central to developing an infrastructure industry in Africa that is economically and socially sustainable.
• How did Africa do in 2014?
• Mining roundup.
• Month by month top business stories of 2014.
• 15 CEOS to watch in 2015.
• Best Business Plan prize for Sub-Saharan Africa Entrepreneurs to be given by the Islamic Development Bank Group: the Best Business Plan competition, launched by the IDB Group in April, reached its final stage on 4th December in Casablanca (Morocco), where the 20 finalists gathered at the Royal Mansour Hotel for the occasion.
• Fifa's shock lifeline to dodgy football agents.
• Turkey's bold gesture.
• Planting entrepreneurial seeds.
• African scientists take the lead on Ebola research.
• Aluminium prices soar.
• Beginning of the end for ANC?
• Belt-tightening time again.
• An uninspiring and lazy tax?
• Ethiopia enters the space age.
• Taking the spice out of cloves?
• Little sachets of evil? The Malawian government is facing down pressure from civil society to ban the sale of cheap and potent sachets of liquor, which campaigners believe is contributing to problems in health and education.
• The burning question: time is running out.
• Sahal message: Songhai Blues.