[[{"value":"Foday Mansaray II, Director General of the Petroleum Directorate of Sierra Leone, will speak at the 2024 edition of the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energy (www.AECWeek.com) conference – Africa’s premier event for the energy sector – scheduled for 4–8 November in Cape Town. During the event, Mansaray will showcase investment and partnership opportunities available across the west African country’s upstream sector. Sierra Leone’s basins offer substantial opportunities for frontier […]

[[{"value":"Specialized advisory firm RichAfrica Consultancy has joined Angola’s premier event for the oil and gas sector – Angola Oil&Gas (AOG) 2024 – as a Media Partner. The partnership will unlock value for delegates by supporting engagement and investment-focused dialogue. RichAfrica Consultancy focuses predominantly on natural resource law and policy. Through a variety of advisory and technical services, the company supports clients from across both the public and private sectors maximize […]

[[{"value":"Multinational commodity trader Trafigura and Kamoa-Kakula entered a long-term agreement with the Lobito Atlantic Railway consortium to transport critical minerals via the Lobito corridor in February 2024. In addition, Canadian mining firm Ivanhoe Mines made its inaugural copper shipment from the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Complex in the DRC via the corridor, reducing transit time from 25 days to 8 days. The developments highlight the pivotal role of regional critical minerals value […]

[[{"value":"Zebra Comics PLC (https://Zebra-Comics.com), a leader in African comic book publishing, announces a collaboration with DC, part of Warner Bros. Discovery and one of the world’s largest publishers of comics and graphic novels, to co-create and develop a story for DC’s upcoming hardcover anthology Joker: The World. Joker: The World is an anthology that brings together an international consortium of creators and publishers to explore diverse interpretations of the iconic […]

[[{"value":"President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of congratulations to President Samia Hassan of Tanzania on her country's Union Day, marked annually on 26th April. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai; and His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, also dispatched similar […]

[[{"value":"The Embassy of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea accredited in the Kingdom of Morocco contributed through a multi-genre dance, at the closing ceremony of the VIII edition of Spanish Language Week, organised every year by the 13 accredited Spanish-speaking diplomatic representations. The performance by the Equatoguinean students resident in Rabat, who presented several choreographies with traditional, classical and modern music to a large audience made up of  Ambassadors from the Spanish-speaking […]

[[{"value":"The first high-level meeting of the ministers for Justice from the Atlantic African countries concluded on Tuesday 23 April. The meeting set out the key strategies regarding this initiative by the Kingdom of Morocco, which adopted its roadmap in 2023. The Equatoguinean Minister for Justice, Worship and Penitentiary Institutions, Sergio Esono Abeso Tomo, pointed out at the end of the meeting that the process devised by King Mohammed VI was […]

[[{"value":"The ECOWAS Commission’s department for Political Affairs, Peace Keeping and Security on Monday, 22nd April, 2024, is hosting a high leveled delegation from the African Union, UN Human Rights and EU delegation to the AU, led by the Commissioner for political affairs for a 2 day strategic and technical cooperation meeting aimed at integrating and implementing the Afrian Union Accountability and Compliance Framework (AUCF) into peacekeeping missions across the region. The […]

[[{"value":"A carbon taxation regime covering carbon tax on fossil fuel, maritime transport, and aviation could generate additional funds to support the Africa energy transition, says Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary of ECA at a dialogue on carbon markets and development held on the sidelines of the tenth Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-10) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “If combined with other policy measures, carbon tax could help to mitigate those residual […]