Month: October 2025

  The ECOWAS Commission on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd October 2025, hosted the Youth Creative Conference 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria. The Conference organised in partnership with the African Union and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Youth Development was under the theme: “Silencing the Guns.” The two-day youth-led conference brought together thousands of young leaders, innovators, peacebuilders, and policymakers from across Africa to advance the African Union’s “Silencing the Guns” initiative and promote sustainable peace […]

  This morning, as part of Egypt’s and the Armed Forces’ celebrations of the 52nd anniversary of the glorious 6th of October Victories, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi laid a wreath on the Memorial of the Armed Forces' Martyrs and the tomb of late President Anwar El-Sadat in Nasr City. Upon his arrival at the memorial, the President was received by Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Minister of Defense and Military […]

  The political will to build quality infrastructure at borders, including the construction of a single digitised checkpoint between two neighbouring countries, should facilitate the free movement of people and goods and help streamline cross-border trade in Africa, participants in the sixth edition of the Africa Resilience Forum (http://apo-opa.co/4mPrYfq), heard on Wednesday 1 October. The discussion was the subject of a panel session “Regional Integration and Trade as Pathways to […]

   The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and JGC Corporation, a leading Japanese engineering company, have signed an agreement to explore cooperation in the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)in Africa. The two parties signed a Letter of Intent to this effect on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) in Yokohama, which concluded last month. Sustainable aviation fuel is a term for any jet fuel […]

  African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) President Sidi Ould Tah and Niger’s Prime Minister, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, have signed a $144.7 million financing agreement to improve energy access and private sector competitiveness. The agreement, signed at the institution’s headquarters in Abidjan, provides budgetary support from the African Development Fund, the Bank Group's concessional financing window. It enables the Nigerien government to implement Phase 1 of the transformative Energy Sector […]

  Africa’s oil and gas sector could be on the brink of a new exploration renaissance, driven by advances in seismic imaging, frontier data sets and faster permitting, industry leaders said at Africa Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies 2025 in Cape Town on Wednesday. According to Emmanuelle Garinet, VP of Exploration Africa at TotalEnergies, Africa’s frontier basins hold significant volumes. She pointed to Namibia as an example of […]

  Algeria is sharpening its upstream strategy around frontier zones and unconventional resources, with officials from ALNAFT and Sonatrach highlighting shale gas, offshore exploration and new licensing opportunities as key growth drivers. Speaking at African Energy Week 2025 on Thursday, Samir Bekhti, President of ALNAFT, said the regulator’s priority is “reaching the full potential” of Algeria’s reserves, noting that the country holds some of the largest oil and gas deposits […]