Africa

Trendy Coffee Revives African Industry Left Behind

Julien Ochala can’t live without his morning cup of Joe. But not just any coffee will do. For the past five years, the 37-year-old physiology lect...

BAT Faces Full U.K. Probe Into African Tobacco Report

British American Tobacco Plc faces a formal probe by the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office following reports that the maker of Dunhill cigarettes bribed Af...

Hennessy Sees Kenya As Growth Frontier As Cognac Sales Start

Hennessy, the world’s largest maker of cognac, has started distributing its products in Kenya to tap Africa’s second-largest luxury-goods marke...

First Carrefour Market Opens In Ivory Coast

The first Carrefour Market store has begun operating in the Ivory Coast, following the opening of a hypermarket in the West African nation in 2015. The...

Ghana To Tap Stabilization Fund For Cocoa Pay Next Season

Ghana will probably start drawing from its stabilization fund to cover cocoa farmers’ pay during the season that starts in October as the second-bigg...

Macadamia Nut Craze Transforms Farmland In South Africa's East

Booming demand for macadamias is transforming farmland in eastern South Africa, as landowners switch focus from bananas and sugarcane to the creamy nuts us...

Africa Corn Silos Overflow In South As Food Crisis Hits East

Africa’s corn harvest this year is a tale of two extremes as worries about overflowing silos and rotting crops in the south contrast with the east wh...