Staff Writer

  Woodside Energy has been recognized as International Local Content Champion of the Year by African Energy Week 2025: Invest in African Energies, honoring its sustained commitment to building local capacity, fostering skills transfer and empowering communities across Africa. The award highlights the company’s strategic efforts to ensure that local people and enterprises play a central role in delivering major energy projects. A focal point of Woodside Energy’s approach is […]

  The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) (www.ITFC-IDB.org), member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, has signed a US$90 million syndicated facility in favor of the Republic of Djibouti, with the Société Internationale des Hydrocarbures de Djibouti (SIHD), as the executing agency.   The Agreement was signed between Mr. Nazeem Noordali, Chief Operating Officer of ITFC, and H.E. Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh, Minister of Economy&Finance. The facility will strengthen Djibouti’s […]

  Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has once again had its long-term issuer credit rating of A3 affirmed by Moody’s Ratings, a rating first assigned in 2014 and consistently maintained for over a decade.  Moody’s affirmed this rating with a stable outlook and affirmed AFC’s short-term issuer rating at P-2, underscoring the Corporation’s status as one of the highest-rated investment-grade institutions in Africa. “Despite […]

  H.E. Dr. Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation, held a virtual meeting with H.E. Dr. Amer Al-Bassat, Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade, in the presence of Judge Mahmoud Makkiyah, Secretary-General of the Lebanese Council of Ministers. The meeting came within the framework of the ministry’s role in organizing the 10th session of the Egyptian-Lebanese Joint Higher Committee. Discussions focused on efforts to enhance bilateral […]

  The West African Development Bank (BOAD) (www.BOAD.org) has taken a major step in strengthening its financing capacity by increasing the size of its sovereign, portfolio credit-insurance policy signed in June 2023. The policy—subscribed with a pool of leading private insurers—now amounts to XOF297.6 billion (approximately EUR 454 million). This transaction is part of strategic plan Djoliba, which aims to optimize risk management and expand financing for WAEMU member countries.  […]

  Imagine a marketing manager who left a company six months ago, taking their personal laptop with them. On it, unbeknownst to anyone, was a cached login to a shared cloud drive containing sensitive client proposals and campaign strategies – access that was simply overlooked during offboarding. Months later, the ex-employee accidentally drags a folder from that shared drive onto a public-facing personal cloud storage, thinking it was their own. […]

  The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of JPY 400 million (approximately US$2.7 million) from the Government of Japan. This vital funding will enable WFP to provide school meals in Sudan, which help to increase school attendance and boost learning outcomes. “This generous contribution from the Government of Japan comes at a critical time when school are reopening in Sudan,” said Laurent Bukera, WFP Sudan Country […]

  Liberia has reaffirmed its leadership in advancing gender equality in diplomacy and governance with the validation of its Gender-Responsive/Feminist Foreign Policy (GRFP/FFP) Roadmap and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gender Assessment during a high-level workshop held on Friday, October 3, 2025 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Monrovia. Serving as keynote speaker, Cllr. Deweh E. Gray, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, emphasized that Liberia stands as the first […]

  The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), has launched the 2025 National Budget Outreach and FY2026 Pre-Budget Consultation in Sanniquellie, Nimba County, as part of its Open Budget Initiative (OBI). The initiative, which kicked off on Saturday, aims to strengthen fiscal transparency and public participation in the national budget process. It provides citizens with updates on the implementation of the FY2025 National Budget […]