What does South Africa get out of Brics? BBC Africa

The five Brics coun­tries of Brazil, Rus­sia, India, Chi­na and South Africa are hold­ing their 15th annu­al sum­mit in Johan­nes­burg. How­ev­er one of the nations lead­ers, Vladimir Putin, will not be there.  The G7 nations have been very crit­i­cal of Rus­si­a’s inva­sion of Ukraine, but the Brics nations, includ­ing South Africa, less so.  The BBC’s Kim Chakanetsa…

What Joint Drills With South African, Russian Navies Mean for China 

South Africa is under fire for host­ing joint naval exer­cis­es with Rus­sia dur­ing the one-year anniver­sary of the inva­sion of Ukraine, with crit­ics say­ing it will be a pro­pa­gan­da vic­to­ry for Moscow. But what does the third par­tic­i­pant in the drills, Chi­na, have to gain from the tri­par­tite exer­cis­es tak­ing place this week? Some ana­lysts told…

The Growth of Mobile Money Transfer in Africa

In 2021 the glob­al mobile val­ue stood at 1 tril­lion dol­lars. The African con­ti­nent account­ed for about 70 per­cent of the sta­tis­tics. The adop­tion of mobile mon­ey in Africa con­tin­ues to rise with Glob­al Sys­tem for Mobile Communications(GSMA) fig­ures high­light­ing an increase from 27.5 bil­lion in 2020 to 36.7 bil­lion in 2021. Mobile Mon­ey Enables Growth…

Africa’s Top Companies

  These African com­mu­ni­ty resources — links and pages to elect­ed offi­cials, Africa’s top com­pa­nies, soc­cer clubs, African-led busi­ness­es and orga­ni­za­tions, gro­cery stores, church­es, and more, are designed to give quick, easy access to the ser­vices that the African com­mu­ni­ty needs and desires.  Africa’s Top Com­pa­nies on our list were pulled through online research. This ran­dom list­ing is…