Last month at the Bloomberg Philanthropies hosted U.S.-Africa Business Forum, a package of economic and socially impactful deals to benefit Africa were announced. The event — part of the U.S-Africa Leaders.
Last month’s announcement of a partnership between Africa richest man Aliko Dangote and private equity fund Blackstone Group to invest to the tune of $5 billion exclusively in energy infrastructure.
Burkina Faso is keen on giving a boost to its economic relations with Singapore, through a mutual investment promotion and protection agreement (APPI) and a memorandum of understanding between the.
The Ebola outbreak in West African countries is not seriously affecting the Nigerian economy, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said. Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, has recorded 21 cases of the virus, and.
Ghana sold a $1 billion Eurobond on Thursday at a coupon rate of 8.125 percent, lower than analysts had expected given the fiscal difficulties faced by the West African producer of cocoa,.
TRADITIONAL chiefs have backed Grace Mugabe’s bid for a seat on the Zanu PF politburo, joining the ongoing stampede by pro-ruling party groups not to attract suspicion by remaining silent.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced it will be donating (N8billion) to support the efforts of Nigeria and other West African countries hit by the Ebola Virus outbreak.
Despite being in the front lines of trade in Africa, African women are constrained by policies and other harsh socioeconomic realities. Daily, millions of women in Africa are engaged in.
In 2010, the African Union (AU) took a bold initiative on that year’s International Day for Rural Women to officially launch the African Women’s Decade (AWD), an initiative to advance.
I was born in Canchungo, in the northwestern part of Guinea-Bissau. Images of a beautiful canvas of green landscape crisscrossed by abundant waterways, thick forest, vast expanses of mangroves, pristine.
