Growth spurt This year, South African e-commerce is expected to reach an important milestone whereby online retail sales surpass the 1% mark for the very first time. While this may represent just… Read more
Premium cover More than 92% of all premiums paid to the continent’s insurance firms came from just 10 African countries – six of which surpassed the US$1 billion threshold in non-life premiums. Those… Read more
Shop talk With a population of more than 180 million people, Nigeria is catching up in terms of the shopping mall construction trend that has been sweeping across the continent over the past… Read more
Watch this space The Sahel is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions in terms of climate change, and where the livelihoods of many depend on a few crops such as millet and… Read more
Easy riders Nairobi’s notorious traffic jams cost the city up to US$500 000 in economic losses every day. Apart from the time wastage, city planners warn that if cars continue to fill the… Read more
