• 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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  • Africa Finance Corporation receives AAA rating

    Monday, January 13, 2025

    Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has received an AAA domestic credit rating with a stable outlook from China Chengxin International Credit Rating Co. (CCXI). The milestone rating enables AFC to deepen its engagement in China’s vast domestic debt capital markets. It positions the Corporation to tap a new pool of […]

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Dec
20

Gongloe vows to sweep corruption out of Liberia

Liberian presidential hopeful Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe says the country’s Presidential and Legislative elections next year present the opportunity for Liberians to strengthen the rule of law, sweep corruption out of the country and expand economic activities for sustained peace, progress, and prosperity. He said the dream for the declaration of Liberia’s independence in Africa […]

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Dec
17

Innovative solutions needed to fight climate change

The 17th African Economic Conference ended recently with a charge to the development community and governments to take decisive actions to address climate change. The African Development Bank, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and United Nations Development Programme, the conference hosts, called on participants to walk the talk by producing concrete solutions for climate-smart […]

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Dec
17

President Weah speaks at US-Africa Forum

I bring you warm greetings and best wishes from the friendlypeople of the Republic of Liberia. It is indeed an honor to join my colleagues from Africa to participate in this year’s US-Africa Leaders’ Summit. On behalf of the Government and People of Liberia, and in myown name, I would like to extend heartfelt appreciation […]

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Dec
15

Africa to manufacture malaria medicines

Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), focused on strengthening African manufacturing of malaria medicines on the margins of the 2nd International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2022), taking place in Kigali, Rwanda. The objective of the MoU […]

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Dec
12

Eradicating hunger in Africa is possible

Eradicating hunger in Africa by 2030 is possible, said global agriculture leaders in Rome. Meeting ahead of the African Food Summit (Dakar 2) to be hosted by President Macky Sall in Dakar, Senegal, from 25-27 January 2023, President of the African Development Bank Group Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) President Alvaro Lario […]

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Dec
10

ICC President speaks on Human Rights Day

Today, the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) joins the rest of the world in marking Human Rights Day and commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on this day in 1948. International criminal justice is inseparably connected to the global movement to promote respect for universally recognised human rights, starting […]

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Dec
8

Ubongo receives $27.8m for early childhood development

Africa’s leading creator and producer of children’s educational media, Ubongo, has announced that it has been chosen as one of the five recipients of the Lego Foundation’s global Build a World of Play Challenge to fund bold, innovative and impactful solutions focused on early childhood. The LEGO Foundation is awarding a total of DKK 900 […]

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Dec
6

Africa: New empowerment project launched

The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) Secretariat has launched a scheme to support mechanisms for climate adaptation finance for women entrepreneurs and youth. The scheme, “YouthADAPT: Empowering Women and Youth for Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in Climate Adaptation and Resilience,” will develop innovative, transformative climate-resilient bankable projects aligned with African countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions. YouthADAPT […]

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Dec
3

African diaspora sent $95.6 billion home last year

Hundreds of academics and leaders of international institutions from around the world came together recently in Abidjan, Ivory Coast for an African Development Bank Forum on ways to harness the skills, wealth and dynamism of Africa’s 160-million-strong diaspora to its growth and development. The hybrid event took place against the difficult geopolitical backdrop of high […]

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Dec
1

Alibaba trains 86 African entrepreneurs

Alibaba Global Initiatives (AGI) today announced the graduation of 86 African entrepreneurs from the latest edition of the Alibaba Netpreneur Training (ANT) Program. Held from mid-October to mid-November, the Africa-specific edition was rolled out with support from the Africa’s Business Heroes prize competition, a philanthropic initiative that aims to support and inspire the next generation of African […]

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