The 2024 West Africa Deal Summit (WADS) concluded on Wednesday, with a call for more regional collaboration to mobilize catalytic capital to address West Africa’s unique socioeconomic challenges. The two-day event attended by over 400 investors, entrepreneurs, government representatives, and thought leaders, focused on building innovative financing mechanisms.  The summit themed “Actions to Deepen Catalytic […]

Financial pressures in South Africa and across Africa have led to a surge in demand for cheaper products, creating a lucrative market for counterfeiters. This has even extended to electrical goods which have infiltrated between 40% to 80% of markets on the continent, posing a potentially lethal risk to millions of consumers. At best, they […]

With a mission to scale investment in Africa, a new collaboration between Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, and the Japan Institute for Overseas Investment (JOI), established by the initiative of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), is set to embark on a series of initiatives to facilitate capital flows. […]

Most of Africa’s trade is carried out via sea routes. Geopolitical conflicts, however, including the war in Ukraine and attacks on commercial shipping vessels in the red sea, have caused detours and delays, impacting on maritime trade to and from Africa. This new wave of disruption follows the unprecedented global logistics crunch caused by the […]

Global oil demand is projected to reach 120.1 million barrels per day (BPD) by 2050, while energy demand will rise 24% during the same period, says the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais. Delivering a keynote address at the African Energy Week: Invest in African Energies 2024 conference, Al Ghais […]

The African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies 2024 conference officially opened in Cape Town, South Africa with calls from the industry to ‘drill baby drill.’ Citing the need to enhance climate justice through the development of domestic energy resources, industry leaders from across the continent underscored the need to sign deals, foster partnerships […]

By Martin C. Benson The chairperson of the board of trustees of the Grand Kru Technical College (GKTC) Prof. Weade Kobbah-Boley has awarded 10 scholarships to students of the college. Prof. Dr. Josephus Gray, acting president of the college, said the chairman of Grand Kru County Legislative Caucus, Senator Numene T.H Bartekwa also awarded 55 […]

Cameroonian goalkeeper Charles Tambe has advocated for a stronger representation of Africa-based players in the Indomitable Lions squad. Currently, fewer than 5% of the squad members play domestically or in other African leagues, with the majority based abroad. Limited Local Representation in Recent World Cup and AFCON SquadsFor the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, only […]

By Martin C. Benson Excitement is high among students of Liberia’s Grand Kru Technical College (GKTC) as they eagerly return to classes. Ahead of the resumption of classes for the first semester at its Greenhill Community, Barclayville City campus, the administration of GKTC conducted a well-attended new students’ orientation program on September 13 in the […]

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice has dismissed a complaint against Liberia for its failure to investigate the Lutheran Church Massacre and prosecute those responsible.  The Lutheran Church Massacre occurred on July 29 and 30, 1990, when Liberian Government forces killed approximately 600 civilians at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, a […]