According to Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) South Africa country manager TC Chetty, the recent credit rating downgrades by global ratings agencies will negatively affect Africa’s two biggest economies – South Africa and Nigeria, and hit Africa’s overall economic growth. TC Chetty, South Africa country manager for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). […]
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Euronews extends African reach ahead of new channel debut
News channel Euronews has extended its reach in Lusophone Africa thanks to a new agreement with South Africa-based pay TV provider DStv, and has launched a programming strand on the Ouest TV channel in Francophone Africa. The latest deals come ahead of Euronews’ planned launch of Africanews , a dedicated multilingual pan-African news channel later […]
“Radical” rethink of development practices needed to reach poorest
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde in Kigali, Rwanda As a UN working group gathers in New York to discuss recommendations for a post-2015 development agenda, mounting evidence suggests that the legacy left by the last set of objectives – the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – is a mixed one. Released on 2 February, a report […]