Month: September 2024

 The meeting, held at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, was chaired by Ahmed Maalim Fiqi, Somalia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Egypt, and Mauritania, alongside Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League. Discussions focused on joint Arab efforts to defend Somalia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in response to the memorandum of understanding between Ethiopia […]

 A growing number of African critical mineral projects are adopting renewable energy solutions and signing Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) to meet their production goals. Platinum group metals (PGM) producer Northam (https://apo-opa.co/4ghRLe7), for example, announced in August 2024 that it will utilize a 180 MW solar facility to power its Zondereinde PGM production site in South Africa. The solar farm is set to generate 220 GWh of electricity, meeting 15% of […]

 A cholera outbreak in central and eastern Sudan is bringing yet more risk, death, and misery to people already bruised by the country’s devastating war. Emergency teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are treating patients as well as providing water and sanitation services to people affected by the war.  In August, Sudanese authorities declared a cholera outbreak, which is currently heavily affecting the states of Kassala, Gedaref, River Nile, Al Jazirah, and […]

 Legislators have renewed the call to combat the rising cases of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) which are claiming lives as Parliament paid glowing tribute to the late State Minister of Defence, Sarah Mateke Nyirabashitsi. The late Hon. Nyirabashitsi, who was also the Kisoro District Woman Representative in Parliament, died of a heart attack, on Saturday, 07 September 2024. The Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business, Robinah Nabbanja, who moved the […]

 Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, today announced the issuance of an inaugural domestic dollar bond from the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), raising US$900 million and marking a significant milestone in the country's economic development. AFC acted as Global Coordinator on the first-of-its-kind issuance for Nigeria’s capital market. The bond which was issued at par has a tenor of five years and carries an […]

 In September this year, Angola's National Oil, Gas&Biofuels Agency (ANPG) and national oil company Sonangol initiated a 45-day geological data acquisition campaign (https://apo-opa.co/4e13vjI) in the onshore Kwanza Basin. This effort aims to delineate the basin's hydrocarbon potential, which remains largely unexplored. The resulting data will provide valuable insights, supporting future investment decisions by exploration and production (E&P) companies in the region.   Despite being a largely-established oil and gas market, […]

 The devastation caused by extreme flooding ravaging South Sudan is easy to see while travelling on the treacherous road to Yirol. Entire communities have been wiped out. Their tukuls are submerged in rapidly rising waters and few salvaged belongings are scattered across whatever high ground they can find. Not only are these communities coping with their own crisis, but they are also trying to accommodate thousands of flood-stricken displaced people […]

 Railway operator Lobito Atlantic Railway exported (https://apo-opa.co/4e3BWX2) its first shipment of copper from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the U.S. in August 2024, strengthening Africa's contribution to the growing global demand for the critical mineral. With the global copper supply gap projected to reach 10 million metric tons by 2030, African projects are poised to play a crucial role in addressing the shortfall. As such, the upcoming Critical […]

 In yet another milestone, Liquid Intelligent Technologies (www.Liquid.Tech), a business of Cassava Technologies, a leading technology company of African heritage, has announced the upgrade of its 1,300km fibre route connecting Kenya’s east coast city of Mombasa to Busia on the Ugandan border, bringing additional multi-terabit capacity and additional resilience to the region.   This high-speed route and the upgrades to the existing routes between Kenya and Uganda enhance digital connectivity while […]