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SA risks falling behind as financial skills shortage widens: Experts

Fresh concerns have been raised about South Africa’s (SA) widening financial skills gap

‘Algeria opening up major investment opportunities across Africa’

Algeria is opening up major investment opportunities, particularly in infrastructure, mining, and energy

Rand strengthens on narrower current account deficit

Rand strengthened in early trade on Friday

Amazon pays Italy $209 million to end tax, labour probe: Sources

An Italian unit of e-commerce giant Amazon has paid compensation and scrapped a monitoring system for delivery staff, ending a probe into alleged tax fraud and illegal labour practices, sources with knowledge of the matter said on Friday

India’s IndiGo cancels around 500 flights, New Delhi, Mumbai hard hit as crisis deepens

IndiGo will cancel around 500flights on Friday in India, with all departures from New Delhi grounded, amid a deepening crisis at the country’s largest airline that has admitted it failed to plan for new flight duty timings imposed on pilots

Mauritius, Seychelles, SA top Africa Prosperity ranking amid growing inequality

A new Africa Prosperity Rating (APR) by the Institute for Management Development World Competitiveness Center (WCC) paints a detailed picture of the continent’s economic performance