Month: December 2024

 Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, today announced its role as Global Coordinator, Lead Co-Arranger, Underwriter, Bookrunner, and Guarantor in the successful syndication of an up to €2 billion facility for Bank of Industry (BOI), Nigeria’s largest and most impactful development finance institution. The transaction is a record global loan syndication for BOI, and marks the largest capital raise in its history, setting a new […]

 The parents of a three-year-old boy are rejoicing after volunteers on board a charity hospital ship removed a large, painful growth from the side of his head—a condition that had been developing since before he was born.  Emmanuel’s mother, Manteneh, and father, Yirah, had sought help for most of his life, but doctors at local hospitals in northern Sierra Leone were unable to treat him beyond prescribing pain medication for […]

 By Gbenga Oyebode, Board Chair of the African Philanthropy Forum (www.AfricanPF.org) For decades, Africa has grappled with a legacy of colonialism, political instability, and uneven economic development, leading to perceptions of the continent as one in need of external assistance and causing the label ‘the Dark Continent’ to take on a new connotation.  As the Dark Continent, Africa became an attractive destination for charitable interests, with a significant number of the […]

 Paul van Zijl, Group CEO at Starsight Energy (www.StarsightEnergy.com), believes it is. He maintains that we must apply a contextual lens and move away from all-or-nothing thinking, employing a holistic, phased and sustainable approach to the continent’s energy mix. It’s fair to say that the global imperative to ‘decarbonise’ – the shift from fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or oil to carbon-free and renewable energy sources – has […]

 Shakwa Nyambe, the Managing Partner of SNC Incorporated (www.SNCLawGroup.com), has been recognised as a Highly Regarded Lawyer for Oil and Gas in Namibia by the IFRL1000 rankings of 2024. He is specifically recognised for his exceptional work in the practice area of Projects: Energy, with a focus on the Oil and Gas industry, further cementing his reputation as a world-renowned Energy, Oil and Gas, Natural Resource and Commercial Lawyer. IFLR1000 […]

 Namibia is the current global oil and gas hotspot and is ready to become the energy hub for sub-Saharan Africa, delegates to African Energy Week 2024: Invest in Namibia Energy, heard this week. In opening the session Tom Alweendo Minister of Mines and Energy called on African Nations to safeguard their socio-economic advantages from ongoing oil and gas operations. Namibia was doing this by ensuring its policies were geared to […]