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Africa needs to mobilise more NDC investment in 7 years than the world mobilised in the last 20 years
THERE IS AN URGENT NEED FOR THE AFCFTA TO CO-CHAMPION A NEW INVESTABLE INCENTIVES DRIVEN AFRICAN GREEN INDUSTRIALISATION PLAN, TO ATTRACT DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL TRADE RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING INVESTMENT AT SCALE, THAT TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE AFCFTA, AFRICA’S GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED, REVERED, COMPETITIVE STRENGTHS, SUCH AS OUR ABUNDANT SUPER
Africa investor-Ai applauds AFCFTA Business Summit Leadership
Cape Town, Addis Ababa, London, Paris, Washington, Beijing, Dubai, Brasilia, Tokyo The timely AfCFTA Business Forum, co-hosted by the AfCFTA Secretariat and the Government of South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa this week was a resounding success, according to African institutional investment leaders. The AfCFTA Business Forum, is Africa’s
Namibia Launches Commodity-Backed Fund
Africa saw the launch of its latest sovereign wealth fund in the form of Nambia’s more conventional commodity-backed Welwitschia Fund. The fund has an initial injection of N$262 million (US$16 million), but will be boosted by offshore oil resources discovered by TotalEnergies and Shell. It will collect royalties from mineral
Zambia, DRC seal agreement on manufacturing electric vehicle batteries
Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Friday sealed a bilateral agreement on manufacturing electric vehicle batteries. Under the agreement, the two sides will jointly explore minerals that are critical raw materials for battery-manufacturing and give full play to their rich cobalt and lithium resources. Zambian President Hakainde
Business leaders have to play a better political role
Like it or not, they are potent players in our fragile democratic politics and in global decision-making. We in the western world confront two crises: a collapse in trust in our democratic political system and a planetary environmental threat. The former requires the renewal of common purpose at home. The