Fisheries play a crucial role in supporting livelihoods and food security in Ghana. While there is a sizable industrial fishing fleet, more than two-thirds of Ghana’s total marine fish catch is accounted for by artisanal fishers.
The slowdown of the African economy – due to declining Chinese demand for raw materials, unsustainable, uneven growth and the potential Brexit fallout – calls into question the hopeful ‘Africa Rising’ narrative.
When the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was launched in 1993 by Japan in co-operation with the World Bank, the UN, and the UN Development Programme, it was the first such initiative of one country seeking to deepen its partnership with Africa.
This paper explores the regulatory framework for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Angola, with the objective of broadening understanding of the barriers to foreign investment in the country.
Historically, Mozambique has relied heavily on aid flows to finance post-war reconstruction. It is also Africa’s biggest recipient of overseas development assistance (ODA) – about 50% of government spending is financed from ODA. Post-war economic reconstruction efforts came mainly in the form of large projects focused on rebuilding the country’s infrastructure.
Namibia’s New Investment Bill represents a new foreign direct investment (FDI) regime in line with a recent shift in the developing world away from liberal FDI regulation, which favours foreign investors and restricts the state’s right to regulate in the public interest.
On 25 October 2015, Tanzanians elected John Pombe Magufuli as their president – nicknamed “The Bulldozer” for his self-assertive, brash leadership style, and his ability to push through his agenda.
Three countries in southern Africa have banded together to press for the ban on international trade in ivory to be lifted.
The already-anxious, West-aligned states bordering Russia are receiving alarmingly mixed messages from their NATO allies. At its summit in Warsaw in July, NATO agreed to deploy a battalion of troops to each of the three Baltic states and Poland to protect them against possible Russian attack.
The East Africa region has seen some of the decade’s largest natural gas and energy finds. However, despite their magnitude, these discoveries have yet to fulfil the promise of social and economic progress.
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