Quotes

‘We are simply saying, provide an environment that allows fair trade and competitiveness. Uganda wants to export more products to the Kenyan market, just like you have access to our market.' 

General Wilson Mbadi, Uganda’s Minister of State for Trade, Industry & Co-operatives, calling  for urgent action to remove persistent trade barriers between the two countries

 

‘What is missed in Africa is the data and the infrastructure...the opacity in some markets creates this notion of high risk, which leads to high cost of borrowing.'

Sidi Ould Tah, president of the African Development Bank, reflecting on the launch of the continent’s first credit rating agency

 

‘It’s a law of social justice; many countries have done it without being accused of xenophobia or discrimination.' 

– Hamidou Mhoma, vice-president, New OPACO, a business federation after Comoros passed a new law which bans foreign nationals from certain entrepreneurship sectors

 

'The Ghana cedi is legal tender… and must be treated with respect. The misuse or abuse of the currency is an offence and may attract sanctions under the law.’ 

Dinah Bonzi, an official in the Bank of Ghana's currency department, warning that anyone aiding or promoting ‘money bouquets’ could be prosecuted following several arrests