Africa Matters

UK seems ready to return its ‘last African colony’

Aggrieved Chagossians must be heard in negotiations between the UK and Mauritius over who owns the Chagos Archipelago. Could the protracted dispute over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean finally be drawing to a close? Britain steadfastly insisted for decades that it was the rightful owner of what it called the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). But it…

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Top 10 best African countries for opening an e-commerce business

Mauritius, South Africa and Tunisia are Africa’s top three B2C E-commerce Markets . The two largest B2C e-commerce markets in the world, are China and the United States Mauritius remains by far the most prepared country for e-commerce in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to UNCTAD’s Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce Index 2020. The index scores 152 nations on their readiness for online shopping,…

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