New Delhi is deepening economic ties with Moscow, despite pressure from Washington. India is hedging between energy security and strategic partnerships. Despite pressure from the United States, it has continued buying cheap Russian oil and has recently strengthened economic ties with Russia — from trade to weapons and critical minerals. But this is a delicate…
The Government of Mauritius and the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) are pleased to announce that the 2026 U.S.-Africa Business Summit will take place from July 26–29, 2026, in Mauritius. The official dates were released today during a joint press conference hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CCA in Port Louis, marking an…
Jerry Yang Partner content: Africa’s Business Heroes The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) initiative is pleased to announce that Jerry Yang – Co-Founder of Yahoo!, Founding Partner of AME Cloud Ventures, and Board Director of Alibaba Group – will join the judging panel at the 7th ABH Summit & Grand Finale on December 12-13, 2025, in Kigali,…
Paul Stuttard, director, Duxbury Networking. Enterprise browsers are transforming the ways in which organisations secure their digital workplaces. Unlike traditional browsers that cater to individual consumers, enterprise browsers are purpose-built platforms that integrate identity, policy and data protection into the user experience. This results in a tool that gives security teams much more power over…
Plagued by child labour and other harmful industrial practices, countries in Africa have a duty to regulate business and hold companies to account for violating children’s rights, experts told a conference in Lesotho this week. The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), which brought together lawyers, academics, development experts and human rights…
Bangkok, Thailand – Stewed, seasoned with sugar and cloves, deep-fried or dished up in a zingy chilli mince – the diets of most Thais are incomplete without pork. But a $3bn market – supplied nearly entirely by domestic pig farmers – may be about to face competition like never before from the giant hog farms…
It has been a whiplash-inducing month for the American rancher, one of United States President Donald Trump’s most steadfast voting blocs. Starting with an October 19 quip from Trump that the US would increase beef imports from Argentina to the ensuing rancher backlash against the announcement of an investigation into the hyperconsolidated US meatpacking industry…
Partner content: Africa’s Business Heroes The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, a flagship philanthropic initiative of Alibaba Philanthropy, will host the 7th ABH Summit and Grand Finale in Kigali, Rwanda, on 12–13 December 2025 in partnership with the Rwanda Development Board (RDB). The two-day event will bring together over 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, founders, partners,…
This Entrepreneurship Month, Consult Financial Adviser, Shaun Meintjes shares steps that business owners can take to protect their personal finances if they find their business failing. Ask any entrepreneur what it is like to own a business and they might answer that it’s a bit like taking a sea voyage. When you start a business,…
The Business Council for Africa (BCA) has appointed Dr Alim Abubakre to its Board, marking a strategic step toward deepening UK-Africa business collaboration and strengthening governance across the continent. Dr Abubakre — a respected leadership strategist, Senior Lecturer in International Business at Sheffield Business School, and Founder of TEXEM UK — joins the Board in…
