The Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region now boasts 763 million registered accounts, nearly half of the 1.6 billion users globally with transaction values jumping 22% in the reported period to reach $832 billion January 31, 2024/Mukuru By Juan Seco, Chief Growth Officer and East Africa MD of Mukuru The recent GSMA […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
African Leaders Must Find Ways to Encourage Ongoing Oil and Gas Investments
January 30, 2024/AEC By Tom Alweendo, Minister of Mines and Energy, Namibia As the 2023 U.N. Climate Change Conference, the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai drew to a close, the air was thick with determination among the 200 delegates. Acknowledging that the era of fossil fuels was on […]
Unsettling Silence: Dissent from Denial of Request for Rulemaking to Amend 17 C.F.R. § 202.5(e)
January 30, 2024/US SEC By Commissioner Hester M. Peirce I dissent from the Commission’s denial of a petition to amend Rule 202.5(e), our so-called gag rule.[1] This de facto rule follows from the Commission’s enforcement of its policy, adopted in 1972, that it will not “permit a defendant or respondent […]
