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In 2021, growth in sub-Saharan Africa, the main driver of African growth, was estimated at 4%, according to the World Bank. However, this upward trend should be affected by the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis which is already impacting consumer prices.

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To overcome this problem, schools across the continent must rise to the challenge of equipping graduates with current skills, including those that foster entrepreneurship.

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Between 2019 and 2021, companies headed by women raised less funds in Africa. This trend continued, during the first three months of 2022 when they obtained only 1.5% of the $1.8 billion raised by all African start-ups.

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African start-ups could end 2022 with $7.3 billion in funds raised, if the momentum of the start of the year is maintained, assures thebigdeal.substack.com. These companies hit a new high in the first three months of the year.

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In 2021, Africa had about 21 digital banks serving more than 18 million customers, according to a report by BPC Banking Technologies and Fincog. 80% of these neobanks are concentrated in South Africa and Nigeria.

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Named in honor of Olaudah Equiano, a writer and former slave of Nigerian origin, the Equiano cable is an infrastructure that should offer approximately 20 times more network capacity than the last cables built to serve the continent.

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Successful efforts to increase tax revenue and boost domestic revenue mobilization in African economies over the past decade have been offset by rising debt servicing costs, which accounted for nearly two-thirds of the increase tax revenue generated between 2010 and 2019, according to a new report.