Space race Two South African nanosatellites are set to be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US on 18 April 2017. Designed and manufactured in South Africa, the satellites form part of the EU’s… Read more
Room to rent Over the past two years, the drop in the oil price has seen a decline in rental costs across the continent’s oil-exporting nations. In the Angolan capital city of Luanda, office rental… Read more
Fire away In the last decade, Nigeria has reduced its gas flaring from 36% down to 10%. As a result, it has gone from being the second-highest gas-flaring nation in 2006 (flaring 2.5… Read more
Redeeming feature Despite experiencing strong growth across Africa over the past decade, smartphones still have not managed to overtake feature phones as the dominant handset. In fact, a slowdown took place across… Read more
Through the roof African central banks have some of the steepest interest rates in the world. At 23.5%, Ghana has the continent’s highest – even after the Bank of Ghana reduced its monetary policy rate by… Read more
