World Economic Forum on Africa 2017
The World Economic Forum on Africa 2017 takes place in Durban from 3-5 May 2017.
9 May 2017, 12:38 PM
The forum is taking place at a moment when the African continent is more optimistic about herself.
African countries are becoming increasingly repressive and causing more people to leave their homes, says British charity Oxfam.
This young Nigerian, a winner of the World Economic Forum’s Top Women Innovators Award, has turned adversity and a modern city’s hunger for imported vegetables into a thriving business.
4 May 2017, 4:57 PM
South African minister of finance, Malusi Gigaba believes that the African continent needs to increase intra-African trade so that “we do not have to depend on the outside environment.”
3 May 2017, 12:07 PM
In 2016, the South African delegation at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Rwanda answered tough questions from concerned investors and development financiers.
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