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25/02/2019

E-commerce will struggle to take off in Africa without better connectivity and significant improvements to infrastructure, particularly on last-mile segments.

McKinsey Global Institute projects that e-commerce will be worth $75bn in Africa’s leading economies by 2025. But lack of internet and credit card penetration in some ...

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