Month: July 2024

 The Prime Minister of The Bahamas, The Honourable Philip E.B. Davis, will take center stage as the keynote speaker during the 9th ALM Africa Summit 2024, scheduled for July 17-18, 2024, at The Dorchester on Day 1; and the iconic UK House of Lords, Parliament Square, both in London, UK. Organized by the African Leadership Magazine (ALM), this business event is set to gather influential leaders and policymakers from across […]

 Faced with increasing water stress and climate change impacts on the water resources it shares with its neighbours, Cote d’Ivoire has joined the United Nations Water Convention – a UN treaty to improve joint water management across borders.  It is the 53rd Party to the Convention and 10th African country to join the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, known as the 1992 UN Water […]

 The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) has successfully concluded a two-day preparatory workshop on implementing the African Ports Connectivity Portal Project (APC-PP) to improve data collection and connectivity among the continent’s ports. Held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, from 8-9 July 2024, the workshop rallied together key stakeholders and experts from various organizations, including port management and maritime associations, the African Union Commission, regional economic communities, and port authorities from ten African […]

 Publish What You Fund (http://apo-opa.co/3Wn4rbs), the global campaign for aid and development transparency, has once again named the African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) sovereign portfolio as the most transparent. The portfolio emerged first out of 50 global development institutions with a top score of 98.8 in its 2024 Aid Transparency Index released today. The Bank’s sovereign portfolio climbed four places in the ranking in 2022 to top the Index, setting the […]

 Following its milestone acquisition of Italian multinational Eni’s onshore assets in Nigeria, Oando CEO Adewale Tinubu will discuss the company’s role as a leading indigenous explorer at the MSGBC Oil, Gas&Power 2024 conference in Dakar this December. Earlier this month, Oando completed its acquisition of Eni subsidiary Nigerian Agip Oil Company – which holds interests in onshore OMLs 60, 61, 62 and 63, as well as the Brass LNG terminal […]