Month: May 2025

 Katrina Fisher, Managing Director, ExxonMobil Angola, has been confirmed as a speaker at African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies 2025, taking place on September 29 to October 3 in Cape Town. Her participation highlights ExxonMobil’s long-standing commitment to Angola’s energy market and its role in supporting the country’s ambitions to maintain oil production above 1.1 million barrels per day.  With over three decades of operational history in Angola, […]

 Ian Cloke, COO of Africa-focused oil and gas upstream company Afentra, has joined the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference as a speaker. During the event – scheduled for September 29 to October 3 in Cape Town – Cloke is expected to share insight into the company’s strategy for breathing new life into Africa’s maturing assets. As an independent company with a diverse portfolio of production, near-field […]

 From May 26 to 30, 2025, Côte d’Ivoire will host the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) — a strategic event that sets the major directions for economic development, investment, and cooperation across the continent. During this summit, the African Development Bank will also appoint a new president. In a rapidly changing global context marked by climate, energy, and social challenges, these meetings offer a unique platform for […]

 The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) (www.ITFC-IDB.org), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, signed a multilateral financing and implementation agreement to support the Forward7 initiative in Nigeria. The agreement brings together ITFC, the Trade Development Fund (TDFD) (Managed by ITFC), the Oil Sustainability Program (OSP), and BURN Manufacturing, and was signed at the Ministry of Energy headquarters in Riyadh. The initiative aims to manufacture and distribute […]

 The Youth Charter (www.YouthCharter.org), a leading international charity in sport-for-development and peace, has released a powerful new essay commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, calling on global athletes and the wider sporting community to move beyond symbolic protest and toward unified action in support of disadvantaged youth worldwide.  Titled “From Taking the Knee to Taking a Stand”, the essay urges sportsmen and women who took the […]

 As Kenya invests heavily in key economic growth and national resilience drivers, from digital infrastructure and AI factories to hyperscale data centres and green industrialisation, the country is set for increased international attention following the announcement of Ai Everything Kenya x GITEX Kenya. Organised by KAOUN International, the global organiser of GITEX, in partnership with the Office of the Special Envoy on Technology of the Republic of Kenya and dx⁵, […]

 My dear brothers and sisters of our beloved Africa and its islands, It is with pride, but also with a great concern that I address you on this African day of 25 May, while we are celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the establishment of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) now the African Union (AU). As the African Union’s theme for the Year 2025 is calling to “Justice for Africans […]

 Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany underscored their commitment to build healthcare capacity, support girl education and break infertility stigma in Nigeria during their high-level meeting with H.E. Senator OLUREMI TINUBU, CON, The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The discussion was led by Prof. Dr. Frank Stangenberg Haverkamp, Chairman of Merck Foundation BOT and Senator, Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation. Senator Dr. Rasha […]