Month: September 2024

 West Africa holds enormous trade potential within the region. The ITC West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) created a Business Matchmaking platform so that entrepreneurs can identify potential trading partners across the region.  Our latest workshop showed trade groups from Nigeria, Gambia, Liberia, Ghana, and Sierra Leone how to get businesses onto the platform. They learned to verify company listings and then create professional product photos and descriptions that inspire confidence among potential […]

 The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a US$ 5.2 million contribution from the Government of Norway to support 544,000 Malawians adversely impacted by the El Niño-induced drought. Norway’s timely contribution will support WFP’s El Niño Response Plan which, in coordination with the Government of Malawi, aims to assist 2.1 million food-insecure people in Malawi. WFP will procure and distribute 3,200 metric tons of maize and ninety-eight metric […]

 H.H. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, has met with Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, to explore ways of enhancing cooperation. The meeting, held on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, discussed strengthening UAE-Africa ties and developing aspects of joint cooperation at all levels. Sheikh Abdullah and Mahamat also exchanged […]

 Network International (www.Network.ae), a leading enabler of digital commerce in the Middle East and Africa, officially announces its establishment in Morocco, furthering its strategic expansion in Francophone Africa. With over 30 years of industry leadership, Network International is committed to accelerating the digitalization of payments in the Kingdom through cutting-edge technology tailored to the needs of Moroccan financial institutions and businesses. Nandan Mer, Group CEO, Network International, said : “Morocco represents […]

 Akouj Elijah is a dedicated mother, wife and full-time official at a civil society organization which promotes reconciliation among feuding local communities. She, and her sickly two-year-old son, are attending a Political Parties’ Forum for youth representatives in South Sudan’s capital, Juba. As soon as she can get a break, she will dash out and take him to hospital, and then return. In the meantime, young Thon Ater is on […]

 Millions of Somalis are at risk of falling deeper into hunger as below-average rainfall between October and December 2024 linked to the La Nina weather phenomenon threatens to reverse recent gains in food security. United Nations agencies are warning that without urgent funding for humanitarian action, the country – which in late 2022 was pushed to the brink of famine – could once again be plunged into a hunger crisis […]

 Itana (http://apo-opa.co/4dnuip1), Nigeria’s first licensed digital economic zone management company, and Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, have agreed to jointly develop the first digital economic zone in Africa designed for global and Pan-African technology, finance and service-based businesses to operate and scale with ease across Africa, unlocking the continent’s digital economy. The formalisation of this partnership took place yesterday in front of global government […]

 The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a €6 million concessional financing package from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA), a special multi-donor fund managed by the Bank, to accelerate the completion of Burkina Faso’s Dédougou photovoltaic solar project in support of the Bank's Desert-to-Power initiative (https://apo-opa.co/3XKXpwG). The project involves designing, constructing and operating an 18-megawatt solar power plant in Dédougou, located 250 kilometres west of the capital, Ouagadougou. […]

 The West African Development Bank (BOAD) (www.BOAD.org), organized a high-level workshop on climate finance in Cotonou, in partnership with the European Union. The event brought together key public and private stakeholders from across West Africa with the aim of standardizing the feasibility studies for climate projects and enhancing the mechanisms to replenish the Climate Study Fund (CSF). The Climate Study Fund, established by decision No. 069 of the WAMU Council […]