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Business browser Every issue we review businesses, products and meet people behind key organisations across our network HOLIDAY HOTSPOT The Gambia may be one of Africa’s smallest countries but, having enjoyed long spells of stability, it is also a tourism hotspot. Indeed, tourism is the country’s fastest growing industry, contributing […]

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Water works Un-exploited hydro resources are abundant across Africa. Peter Griffiths reports on the need to untap the continent’s power potentialIllustrations Nils Davey Flying over Africa late at night reveals a continent largely in darkness, littered only by flickers of faint firelights and several metropolises that have managed to find […]

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Business browser Every issue we review businesses, products and meet people behind key organisations across our network. ORGANIZATION TO KNOW RAWBANK is a Congolese bank that was established in 2001 by five brothers of the Rawji family. The bank has already opened branches in DR Congo’s three most important cities, […]

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A loan in the dark Although ranked as one of the world’s poorest countries by the United Nations, Sierra Leone is in the process of creating an entrepreneurial middle class using microfinance schemes to promote local economic development. Mariama Jalloh used to keep all her money in a drawer by […]

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Youthful enterprise They may be young, but the staff at Nairobi-based Shinda are showing what the kids are really capable of, as Victoria Averill discovers The cacophony of downtown Nairobi pours through the 15th floor window of Corner House as 18-year-old Benson Osinyo perches on a stool and adds the finishing touches […]

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Business Browser Every issue we review businesses, products and meet people behind key organisations across our network. ORGANISATION TO KNOW SAFARICOM is the largest telecommunications company in Kenya with close to 10m subscribers, or 80% of the country’s mobile market. Incorporated in 1997, it is also the most profitable company […]

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Would You Put Your BABY on the Catwalk? Damon Syson and his daughter Ava negotiate the dog-eat-dog world of baby modelling After a series of successful campaigns for top high street stores, my daughter Ava has just terminated her modelling career. We phoned her agency and told them she was resigning. […]

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BUSINESS BROWSER Every issue we review businesses, products and meet people behind key organisations across our network ORGANIZATION TO KNOW Fauna & Flora InternationalOf all today’s hot-button issues, the environment is one of the most serious. We’re constantly told of the damage we humans are wreaking, so it’s good to […]

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Positive goals Rather than basking in his success as many footballers do, Mohamed Kallon is putting his efforts into positive initiatives in his homeland of Sierra Leone. Mohamed Kallon has stayed in some of the swankiest apartments the high-rolling hangouts of Italy, Monaco and the Middle East have to offer. […]

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Entebbe & Kampala City Guide Edris Kisambira takes a look around Uganda’s capital, Kampala, and the lakeside town of Entebbe, the country’s first administrative headquarters after independence Entebbe International Airport is located near the town of Entebbe on the shores of Lake Victoria, 35km from the capital, Kampala. Entebbe was the […]

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