• Education is the foundation of the future

    Friday, December 20, 2024

    On Thursday, December 19, Prince Y. Alpha, deputy director of special services and facility management at Liberia’s National Election Commission, delivered the keynote address at a program to honor teachers and administrators, organized by the Youth Initiative Education Actions for Sustainable Development-Liberia. The program was held in Paynesville, Liberia. Below is the full text of Alpha’s speech: It […]

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  • Liberia: Teachers, administrators honored

    Friday, December 20, 2024

    By Martin C. Benson Education is the foundation upon which the future is built, says an official of the National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia. Speaking Thursday at an awards program in Paynesville, Liberia, Prince Y. Alpha, NEC’s deputy director for special services and facility management, noted that education “is the beacon of hope that […]

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  • A partnership to simplify trade for African businesses

    Thursday, December 19, 2024

    African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Ecobank Group have embarked on a collaboration aimed at simplifying trade and compliance for businesses in Africa by integrating Ecobank’s Single Market Trade Hub and Afreximbank’s MANSA Digital Repository Platform. With the collaboration, African businesses will benefit from seamless shared services across the two platforms, with users of the Single […]

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  • €139m loan to boost youth employment in Côte d’Ivoire

    Wednesday, December 18, 2024

    The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved loans totaling €139.68 million to support youth employment and entrepreneurship in Côte d’Ivoire, targeting key sectors with high job creation potential. The loan comprised of €126.32 million from the bank’s commercial development window and €13.36 million from its concessional lending arm, the African Development Fund, will help […]

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  • African Energy 2024: Surging investment, waves of change

    Tuesday, December 17, 2024

    By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber I’ve said for years that African energy is a vital investment. Backers clearly agree — to the tune of USD47 billion. That’s how much capital expenditure (capex) 2024 saw in African oil and gas, showing a 23% increase from last year. Better yet, we expect growth to […]

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News

Mar
29

Germany backs Kenyan access to European markets

Germany will support Kenya in its attempt to better penetrate the European Union market. Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz said Kenya is a true friend and stable country in Africa whose economy must be helped to thrive. “The better access to Europe will help Kenyan firms to produce and sell more. This will accelerate employment […]

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Mar
24

African students build Artificial Intelligence models

UmojaHack Africa 2023, the single largest pan-African machine learning hackathon, took place on March 18-19. The event brought together over 1000 students from 345 universities in 36 countries to build machine learning models for climate change.  The winners of each challenge are: For the Rubik’s Cube Reinforcement Learning Challenge, the winners were Akram Badreddine Laissaoui and Nazim Bendib from […]

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Mar
21

Liberia gets $3.9m to upgrade payments system

The board of directors of the African Development Fund, the concessional financing window of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has approved a $3.9 million grant to finance the upgrade of Liberia’s payments infrastructure and systems project. The approval of the grant from the Fund was made on March 17. The project’s primary objective is to […]

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Mar
18

Africa: Rugby is big business, let’s stop pretending it isn’t!

By Herbert Mensah African Rugby needs to respect itself and behave in a “world-class” fashion before it can be respected by the rest of the world. African sports have been forgotten by the world. More so, it seems that African sports have been forgotten by Africans. In the world of rugby, in particular, there are […]

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Mar
17

West African experts discuss regional single currency

The Technical Committee on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Single Currency Program met on Thursday in Guinea Bissau to define the concept of “Majority of Member States” within the framework of the Macroeconomic Convergence and Stability Pact among ECOWAS member states. The experts also discussed amendments to the legal texts relating to […]

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Mar
14

Sweden, Egypt discuss trade relations

Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Johan Forssell on Tuesday received Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Ahmed Samir Saleh in Stockholm. During the visit, the ministers participated in a Swedish-Egyptian business forum together with business representatives. The ministers discussed matters such as how Swedish companies’ innovation capacity can contribute to the […]

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Mar
12

Liberia: Clar Weah’s budget undeserved

By Benedict Nyankun Wisseh Madam Clar Weah, with all due respect Madam first lady, I love you and that is why I stood as the “BESTMAN” in your wedding, but there is something that does not add up. How is it possible that the budget of the first lady office exceeds the allotment in the […]

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Mar
11

Basketball Africa League gets underway

The Basketball Africa League’s (BAL) Sahara Conference group phase begins today at the Dakar Arena in Senegal.  The six title hopefuls are defending BAL champion US Monastir (Tunisia), AS Douanes (Senegal), Abidjan Basketball Club (Côte d’Ivoire), Kwara Falcons (Nigeria), Rwanda Energy Group (Rwanda) and Stade Malien (Mali). Collectively the six teams feature 78 players from […]

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Mar
11

Sierra Leone, UK sign trade agreement

Sierra Leonean President Dr Julius Maada Bio recently met United Kingdom (UK) Foreign Secretary James Cleverly after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK government to improve trade relations between the two countries. Appointed Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs on 6 September last year, the former Conservative MP was […]

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Mar
8

President Weah launches $40m investment project

Liberian President George Manneh Weah on Tuesday launched a US$40 million finance and trade project geared towards improving Liberia’s investment climate. The project, which is being implemented by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, is also crucial for jobs creation as well as the economic empowerment of the Liberian people. One of Liberia’s outstanding partners, […]

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