• Reshaping Africa’s economic narrative

    Wednesday, February 5, 2025

    The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) issued its Unstoppable Africa 2024 Executive Summary today, shedding light on transformative strategies and solutions to reshape Africa’s financial narrative and accelerate economic growth. The report highlights GABI’s call for the development of an inclusive financing model to address Africa’s unique challenges, focusing on concessional financing, attracting private sector […]

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  • African leaders to advance clean cooking solutions

    Sunday, February 2, 2025

    African countries have taken bold commitments to implement clean cooking energy solutions to offset the devastating effects of open fire cooking which kills roughly 600,000 women and children annually across the continent. In energy compacts signed during the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit, held in Tanzania 27-28 January, 12 African countries signaled their intent to  […]

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  • African Mining Week 2025 to Showcase Projects

    Monday, January 27, 2025

    African Mining Week (AMW) 2025, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, from October 1-3, will center on the theme, From Extraction to Beneficiation: Unlocking Africa’s Mineral Wealth.  The event will highlight initiatives aimed at enhancing Africa’s mineral value chains and promoting local processing to drive economic growth. Research indicates that Africa could generate up to […]

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  • Former Liberian rebel guilty of US immigration fraud

    Monday, January 20, 2025

    Laye Sekou Camara, alleged high-ranking member of the LURD (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy), who was due to stand trial for immigration fraud in Philadelphia beginning on Tuesday, January 21 pleaded guilty on Thursday, January 16 to all four counts of immigration fraud.  Camara is due to be sentenced on May 19 and remains […]

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  • Africa: Renewable energy platform for clean access

    Saturday, January 18, 2025

    PowerGen Renewable Energy (PowerGen) has partnered with leading international investors to establish a scalable, distributed renewable energy platform targeting the deployment of 120 MW of renewable power, including battery energy storage solutions across Africa. The platform is a collaboration between PowerGen and the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), the Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries […]

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News

Oct
22

AU head visits countries hit by Ebola

African Union Commission Chairperson Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini- Zuma at the head of a 14-member delegation is expected to arrive in Liberia on Thursday for a one-day official visit. Dr. Dlamini-Zuma’s visit to Liberia is part of her tour of the three countries worst affected by the Ebola Virus Disease. The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission of Africa […]

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Oct
21

APC Norway chieftain hails Buhari

I was one of the most happiest person when General Muhammed Buhari (GMB) declared to his interest to be elected the President of Nigeria in 2015. I still remember vividly when he lost the presidential election in 2011 against President Goodluck Jonathan, he wept bitterly and said that could be his last election in Nigeria. But as […]

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Oct
20

Ebola hits West Africa food security

West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, which has been disrupting agricultural and market activities, threatens to erode food security and negatively affect the livelihoods of millions of already vulnerable people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone unless more is done to meet their immediate food and nutritional needs, say aid agencies. They say they are still calculating […]

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Oct
19

Gbowee Foundation empowers 83 local groups

As the outbreak of Ebola in Liberia continues to take its toll closing schools, putting some government employees on compulsory leave and slowing down economic activities, several institutions and individuals have been making donations to the fight against the virus.  For some, the donations have been directed towards the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and other […]

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Oct
19

Tanzania’s new citizens to get land, voting rights

Over 162,000 former Burundian refugees, who were recently granted Tanzanian citizenship after living in the country for over four decades, will now be able to buy and own land and vote, said a senior government official. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has hailed the move. Most of the former refugees have been living in camps […]

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Oct
18

Liberians in US face worsening Ebola stigma

Africans living in the US from the three Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, are under enormous pressure trying to help their families and ravaged communities back home. And they face an additional challenge: stigma. For the residents of “Little Liberia”, one of Liberia’s biggest emigrant communities in Staten Island, New York, the […]

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Oct
15

FAO launches free online course on gender equality

To strengthen the capacities of member countries in reducing gender inequalities in agriculture and increasing productivity, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, with support from the European Union, has produced a new e-learning course to help policy-makers and agricultural planners develop gender-responsive policies and programmes for food and nutrition security. The course, “Gender in Food […]

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Oct
13

Belgian lawyer for Liberian war crimes victims speaks

On 19th September 2014, it was reported that Martina Johnson had been arrested in Belgium on suspicion of having committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the armed conflict in Liberia in the 1990s. Johnson was the head of the heavy artillery unit for the rebel group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). Lead […]

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Oct
12

Yaya Toure becomes Nissan global ambassador

Car producer Nissan is proud to announce Yaya Touré, three-time African Footballer of the Year and UEFA Champions League winner, as its newest global ambassador. The Manchester City and Ivory Coast midfielder has agreed to a deal which will see him work alongside Nissan’s global UEFA Champions League and Orange Africa Cup of Nations 2015 partnerships. […]

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Oct
8

Maternal, infant deaths set to rise

Maternal and infant deaths in Liberia and Sierra Leone are set to rise above their current alarming rates as fear of Ebola keeps pregnant women away from hospitals and makes already-scarce health workers reluctant to deliver babies. “At the beginning of the outbreak, health service staff were the ones getting Ebola – many of them […]

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