Business

Washington, 27 June– Investment is the only way of really improving your economies; it will not be done by aid, which only provides short-term help, Secretary of State Colin Powell told the fourth biennial U.S.-Africa […]

Washington, 25 June– The policy-setting body of the Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, has cut benchmark interest rates to new 45-year lows, the first change in the U.S. monetary policy in nearly seven months. […]

Washington, 25 June– U.S. and European agricultural subsidies have undercut the ability of developing countries to export their products, weakened the commodity prices on world markets and severely undermined African economies, Malian President Amadou Toumani […]

Washington, 24 June– African farmers want access to biotechnology and they want it now, according to African educators, scientists and farmers participating on a panel at the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. […]

Washington/Abuja, 24 June– The Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, dedicated to the preservation of the Reverend Sullivan’s seven principles for fair and equal treatment that all American companies doing business in Africa are urged to follow, […]

Washington, 24 June– Optimism and cooperation were the keynotes at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Africa Economic Summit in Durban, South Africa June 11-13 as leaders from business, politics and civil society from across Africa […]

Washington, 23 June– Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist Oronto Douglas says Americans can help further democracy in Nigeria by encouraging the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo to fight corruption while pushing oil companies to […]

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 23 June– Responding to a request from the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Switzerland announced today that various personal and business accounts of President Charles Taylor of Liberia had been blocked or […]