Africa

Nothing gets to the heart of decentralized, organic blockchain technology growth like mandated governmental legislation to search for potential use cases. In response to our neighbor and technology powerhouse, Wyoming, pushing through legislation on digital assets focusing on cryptocurrency, the...

The iShares MSCI South Africa ETF (NYSE: EZA), the largest exchange traded fund dedicated to stocks in Africa's largest economy, is up about 6 percent this year. On the surface, that sounds pretty good, but upon further examination, EZA looks weak and vulnerable to some downside. What Happened...

Cryptocurrency trading has been a big topic and widely accessible across the Western hemisphere and Asia for a few years now, but when looking at market access and possible new interest potential, Africa has quite a lot growth potential for the cryptocurrency markets. More and more countries in...

Conducting business in Africa is usually not a simple endeavor. And, while it is true that each country and each region’s economy is very different from the next, a few things can be said about the continent as a whole and the challenges of conducting business there. Wondering what these...

There’s more to Wall Street than making money. An increasing number of entrepreneurs are finding ways to use it to give something back to a world that has benefited them. However, few endeavors are as ambitious as Feed A Billion, a project that seeks to provide a billion meals to those in...

Africa is a very diverse continent, and so are its countries’ economies. However, they have one thing in common: growth is still ahead of them. Another interesting thing to notice is that companies there serve millions of customers, largely due to the fact that penetration of U.S.-based...

Benzinga recently had a conversation with one of Morocco’s top businessmen, Saâd Bendidi. The entrepreneur walked us through the country’s return to the African Union after more than three decades of absence, some of the opportunities for economic expansion ahead and even about...

Benzinga recently had the chance to chat with one of Morocco’s top businessmen, Saâd Bendidi, who walked us through the country’s return to the African Union after more than three decades of absence, discussing some of the opportunities ahead for international economic expansion....

“[Morocco’s] membership in the African Union [...] [is] the conclusion of a big process that has been led for many years.” – Saâd Bendidi. After more than three decades of absence, Morocco returned to the African Union (AU) in 2017. But, the return did not come without...

Throughout the 1980's, Africa lost almost half of its elephant population. By the end of decade, countries from around the world agreed on a global ban on the ivory trade. As demand for ivory in Asia continues to surge (take a look at the results of this NatGeo survey that evaluates who...

There are at least two certainties regarding emerging markets stocks and exchange traded funds. First, 2015 is set to be another year of slack performance for emerging markets ETFs as the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: VWO) and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (NYSE: EEM) are off...

Until a penguin farm in Antarctica gets its IPO, there's only one investing frontier left, and that's Africa. Of the 54 countries in the African Union, five have been elevated to emerging market status: Egypt, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa. The rest of the continent is...

This is the second of a three-part series with Richard China, CEO of International Green Structures, a sustainable housing development company looking to take advantage of the African market. Deep value investor Tim Melvin spoke exclusively with China regarding the future direction of business...