Jobs, remittances, and the money African households earn and spend.
President Uhuru Kenyatta announced in March that salaries consumed half of the country’s revenues and had to be cut as they impeded government spending on developmental projects. Months later, the Salaries and Remunerations Commission has pounced on the leadership’s astronomical salaries and trimmed them down. The country will
Kenya has announced a new plan that will see South Africans stay longer than 30 days in Kenya without visas. According to a legal notice which was published on June 9, 2017, visiting South Africans are now allowed to stay up to 90 days without a visa. The Interior Cabinet
"The guy was not doing so well, so we had to let him go..." casually quips the converser when speaking about the recent going-ons at work. Back here in California, firing incompetent people is an everyday phenomenon that one simply lives, so much so that no one assumes
Have you been contemplating migrating to another African country in order to get a better salary? Maybe you should move and there is data to help you out. While you are killing yourself working overtime yet your salary remains the same, there are countries in Africa you can shift to
The rate of unemployment across the world and even worse in Africa is bursting at the seams. The meager numbers of those employed have to endure poor job quality, leaving them desperate. Earlier in 2016, International Labour Organization (ILO) warned that “Africa is still facing tremendous challenges in terms of
In Africa, most countries lack adequate power supply, a key resource needed in furthering the development agenda in the continent. Lack or reliable power grids is a major obstacle to industrializing the continent’s economies; to empower them transition from commodities producer to a manufacturing hub. By 2015, Africa needed
It takes guts to quit a job. It takes guts and passion for one to leave a well-paying job and start an initiative aimed at helping people in the society. That is exactly what Patrick Awuah, a former employee of Microsoft, did some fifteen years ago, and he has never
