Business News

Air Travel: East Africa Rising

September 21, 2016/Bench Events Analysis of International air travel to East Africa this year (January to August) by ForwardKeys, a company that predicts future travel patterns by crunching and analysing 14m booking transactions a day, reveals strong growth of 11.2% compared with the same period last year. This is an […]

Banks, Telecoms Worldwide Thinks of Current Business Models

September 21, 2016/Terrapinn Banks and telcoms worldwide are rethinking their current business models and sources of revenue in light of Fintech competitors and revolutionary technology. East Africa is a hub for such innovations and Payments East Africa (https://goo.gl/9v2RKw) is at the epicentre of this opportunity. Nairobi is the place to […]

U.S. Chamber Names Aliko Dangote Co-Chair of U.S.-Africa Business Center

20/9/2016/US Chamber of Commerce News WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a show of further commitment to collaboration by the business communities in the United States and across Africa, today named Aliko Dangote, Africa’s most successful businessman, as the co-chair of its U.S.-Africa Business Center. Dangote will serve alongside […]