insert_link Africa Mauritius’ next growth phase: a new plan is needed as the tax haven era fades By Pritish Behuria, University of Manchester Mauritians will head to the polls by November 2024 and politicians are considering the economic direction of the island country. For the last two decades, the country’s economic growth has depended heavily on its offshore sector – the provision of financial services by banks to foreign firms. As an isolated country located in the south-western Indian Ocean, Mauritius has […] todayJune 18, 2024 28
insert_link Africa Nigeria freezes over 300 suspected accounts to secure its foreign exchange market Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC says it has frozen about 300 accounts to ensure the safety of its foreign exchange market. todayApril 24, 2024 27
insert_link Africa Binance to stop transactions in Nigeria Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, is ending all transactions and trading in Nigeria's local currency after 8 March 2024. This after Nigeria clamped down on the global crypto exchange, blaming it for feeding a black market for foreign exchange. Ajeck Mangut reports from Abuja. todayMarch 6, 2024 19
insert_link Africa DRC elections: three factors that have shaped Tshisekedi’s bumpy first term as president By Reuben Loffman, Queen Mary University of London Africa’s second-largest country by land mass, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is scheduled to go to the polls on 20 December 2023. President Felix Tshisekedi will be seeking re-election. However, his first tenure has been decidedly mixed. Tshisekedi’s first term has been defined by three major factors: questions over the legitimacy of his 2019 election victory, violence in eastern DRC and the […] todayDecember 7, 2023 11