Tag: Africa
Interview
Mini-grid and maxi-task
Kandeh Yumkella, former director general of the UNIDO industrial development organization in Vienna, sees the long-awaited electrification of Africa as having difficulties in financing issues - and hopes for Europe.
Interview
Waste with value
Andrea Werdin, Head of Marketing at Koa, is convinced that cocoa fruit juice will soon be on everyone's lips.
Automobile market
Driving tests in Africa
The Volkswagen Group has opened its sixth location in Africa with an assembly plant in Ghana. In perspective, significantly more new cars are to be manufactured in Africa than before.
Energy in Africa
Charged up
The still inadequate power supply on the African continent limits the productivity and well-being of millions of people. The potential of renewable energy sources is immense – and could be realized with capital from abroad.
Cocoa
More than just the bean
Only the cocoa beans are important for chocolate production. Some pioneering companies develop innovative products from the valuable remains of the fruit.
Corona in developing countries
Global quake
The corona crisis has reached the whole world with its immense direct and indirect effects. While Africa strikes a balance between infection numbers and socio-economic damage, some Latin American countries are sinking into chaos.
Interview
Demand grows
Anthea Houston, an expert in social housing in South Africa, will get even more work as a result of the corona crisis.
Interview
Outlook for Africa
African economist Tim Heinemann believes that the African institutions' crisis work to date has been successful. To master the long way out of the socio-economic misery, the European private sector is also needed.
Comment
reconstruction
To classify the corona crisis as a positive wake-up call in terms of deceleration, as has sometimes been heard in this country, is rather selfish in the face of global devastation. Yet...