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Building a roadmap for the water industry at the Global Water Summit 2018

International Finance Desk
The conference comes at a time of widespread change for the sector with new finance sources, PPP opportunities, and US$100bn worth of plans for national infrastructure spend in key water markets...
Economy

Kenya’s betting big on infrastructure

Earlier this year, various organisations placed the East African nation among the fastest growing economies in the world Amoxers Wachira and Veronicah Riba July 10, 2015: Africa has been described as the Dark Continent for many years. However, with economies of a couple of African countries recording growth in recent years, the narrative is quickly...
Business Leaders

Investors losing interest in South Africa

Change political mindset to overcome economic constraints, says John Kane-Berman, CEO, Institute of Race Relations Miriam Mannak November 5,2014:It hasn’t been plain sailing for South Africa. Besides slipping on the World Bank’s Economic Freedom Index and the World Economic Forum’s Competitiveness Index, the International Monetary Fund presented a rather bleak economic outlook for Africa’s second...
Economy

In Nigeria, doctor treating Ebola patient dies

This is the first death related to the disease reported from outside Lagos Samuel Okocha September 3, 2014: Last week, Nigeria reported its first Ebola death outside Lagos. A doctor died of the disease in the southern oil-rich city of Port Harcourt. The doctor was treating an Ebola patient who escaped quarantine from Lagos. The...