South Africa and Saudi Arabia Strike $15bn Worth of Agreements
October 19th, 2022
Via The Africa Report, an article on news that South Africa and Saudi Arabia have struck $15bn worth of agreements: Saudi Arabia and South Africa have signed deals worth about $15bn during a state visit by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Details about the agreements between the two countries, which included Memorandums of Understanding, have remained under wraps. […]
Read more »China’s Digital Inroads Into The Middle East
October 19th, 2022
Via East Asia Forum, an article on China’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is driven by the need to maintain access to vital energy supplies. Beijing is also motivated by its ambition to expand markets for Chinese products and investment, establish ‘trade hubs’ along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road — […]
Read more »Uganda: Most Promising Financial Sector In Eastern Africa
October 19th, 2022
Via Quartz, a look at Uganda’s promising financial sector: Kampala could soon dislodge Nairobi from its status as the financial capital of eastern Africa if Uganda continues with measures that have seen it rise to become the regions’ most developed financial sector. This is according to the sixth edition of the 2022 Absa Africa Financial Markets […]
Read more »Algeria Relaxes Rules For Foreign Investors
October 19th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, a report on how – following years of social and political uncertainty triggered by popular uprisings in 2019 – Algeria has updated laws to attract investment: Algeria seeks to breathe new life into its investment landscape with a new investment law. Published at the end of July, the updated legislation aims at […]
Read more »Can South America Take Advantage of the Lithium Boom?
October 18th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, a look at South America’s lithium “triangle”: Commodity prices have gone haywire lately, but lithium is one that shot up and stayed there. The price of lithium carbonate, a key component of many electric batteries, hit an all-time high in April and remains almost 10 times what it was two years ago, […]
Read more »Vietnam: Doi Moi 2.0?
October 18th, 2022
Via East Asia Forum, commentary on Vietnam’s economy: In late August 2022, news broke that Apple was in talks to manufacture its famed Apple Watches and MacBooks in Vietnam for the first time. Some view this as a move by transnational corporations and their core suppliers to diversify their production away from China, buffering themselves from intensifying US–China geoeconomic […]
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