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The session for Anglophone West African countries, held on 21 April 2022, registered participants from Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. Opening the event, the Director General of the Nigeria Country...

A Kyodo News survey on Monday said none of Japan's major companies, including export giant Toyota Motor Corp, see the yen's rapid fall as positive for the domestic economy. The...

The European Union will turn to Africa to replace imports of natural gas from Russia, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Countries in Africa, such as Nigeria, Senegal, and Angola, offer largely...

The head of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Tuesday to discuss the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war and the Bank’s...

The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) has announced a new round of funding under which the African Development Bank’s Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI) will receive $15 million to...

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has finally succeeded in acquiring the social media firm Twitter. The microblogging platform’s board of directors accepted Musk’s $44 billion offer to take the company private....

Having never received a formal education, John Emuria could not read or write. He has spent most of his life herding his family's livestock in Samburu County in the northern...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved two loans amounting to $180 million to co-finance a major energy project that will extend electricity access to rural...

History has proven that crisis often births innovation. This can be observed in the African banking and Fintech sector. Over the past decade, the dampening profitability has led to unprecedented...

By Metohuey Michael Adoglo   The latest edition of the World Bank's Africa's Pulse report announces a slowdown in growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Faced with new economic challenges, there are...