This year's event, titled "Intellectual Property for an Emerging Africa," was attended by Mauritius President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Senegal Prime Minister Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne and World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry. The three leaders highlighted how crucial intellectual property is to spurring innovation and creativity on the continent. Read More »

The United Nations Foundation recognized the Africa Against Ebola Trust with its 2015 Global Leadership Award Nov. 3 in New York City. The Africa Against Ebola Solidarity Trust fights against the Ebola disease. The Trust and AU have partnered to contribute $30 million to the cause and to deploy more than 850 healthcare workers to affected areas in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Read More »

With the signing of an exclusive five-year contract, Golar LNG Limited has become the provider of Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) services for West African Gas Limited (WAGL). The services are necessary to support West African Gas' Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import operations in Ghana. WAGL has the option to extend the contract for an additional five years. Read More »

The African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) has set its annual conference for Nov. 15 to Nov. 17 in Johannesburg. With the theme of "Africa Evermore: Growth for Sustainability," the conference will be hosted by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the continent’s largest exchange. ASEA oversees 25 securities exchanges including those in Nigeria and Ghana. Read More »

The African Union Commission and the African Minerals Development Centre launched a new program to back small-scale miners as well as public entities and communities operating in the low-value minerals and materials sector. The initiative was spearheaded by the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States and funded through the European Union and United Nations. Read More »

Africanstates.info has a wealth of information about investment opportunities in all of the continent's 54 countries. The information on the website allows investors with little or no knowledge of what is available in Africa to be fully informed about the continent's offerings. Africanstates.info includes overviews of companies and locations of their respective investments. Read More »

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is urging West African nations to integrate Ebola responders into their health systems. “Ebola-affected countries face many challenges in strengthening their healthcare systems,” Alasan Senghore said. “Trained Red Cross volunteers have transferrable skills which can be used in future disease outbreaks. Read More »

The Global Development's Frontier 100 Forum focused on the rapid growth of Africa's private sector and the continent's new role as the home to several leading companies. The theme for the invitation-only event was “African Business in the World-Class Space." The forum's keynote speaker was Solomon Asamoah, African Development Bank’s vice president of infrastructure. Read More »

Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Niger and the Gambia. Lehmann is a senior career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He was the assistant secretary of the Consular Operations Branch and served as minister counselor for the Australian Embassy. Read More »

The 16th United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) General Conference will take place Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 at the Vienna International Centre in Austria. The main topic for the conference will be sustainable industrialization and its role in the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Attendees will include Austrian President Heinz Fischer. Read More »

Benin's Ministry of Justice is hosting a two-day workshop in Cotonou based on “Promoting the Ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families,” a study recently conducted by researchers from the International Organization of Migration and the Benin Ministry’s Directorate of Human Rights. Read More »

African government officials gathered Nov. 3 for the three-day African Ministerial Conference 2015 in Dakar. During the event, entitled "Intellectual Property for an Emerging Africa," African Union Commissioner for Human Resources Science and Technology Martial De Paul Ikounga, spoke on behalf of Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union Commission. Read More »

As the first part of its "Coordinated Border Management in Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Burkina Faso" project, International Organization for Migration reps completed field visits in Kongokire, Niger; Sona, Mali; and Kantchari, Burkina Faso. The visits included architects and border police officers and were a first step as the IOM moves toward rehabilitating border posts. Read More »

The World Health Organization officially declared the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone over. The international response to Sierra Leone's Ebola crisis was led by volunteers and healthcare workers from the United Kingdom. Additionally, the U.K. deployed more than 1,500 military personnel to Sierra Leone to build treatment centers and train local and international healthcare workers. Read More »

In an effort to further enhance its remote mobile asset monitoring capabilities for its customers, Securis Africa has entered into a strategic partnership with driver risk management company AlertDriving. Securis has begun using the AlertDriving's FleetDefense app, which is available for use on any tablet, cell phone or computer. The app monitors drivers' decision-making processes. Read More »

Grant Shapps is visiting Ghana this week, calling on the nation's citizens to become part of a "solar revolution." The people of Ghana have more access to electricity than other sub-Saharan African nations, but the nation still experiences frequent power cuts and outages. Less than 1 percent of households in Ghana use solar energy, despite the existence of solar technology. Read More »

Nigerian Export-Import Bank managing director Roberts Ungwaga Orya met with representatives from the World Bank to discuss ways to enhance and revitalize the mining sector in Nigeria. Orya said NEXIM Bank's services included a variety of trade and market information and export advisory services for customers in the agro-processing, solid minerals and services (MASS) sectors. Read More »

The inaugural Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa week is underway, culminating on Nov. 18 with a media conference entitled “Accelerating Infrastructure Implementation for Africa’s Integration.” The goal of PIDA, a continent-wide initiative, is to take a deeper look at Africa's infrastructure shortcomings and how they are hindering the continent's efforts to compete. Read More »

The United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Ghana Local Governance Decentralization Program (LOGODEP) is conducting its closeout workshop that ends Nov. 12 in Busua, Ghana. USAID oversees a variety of programs aimed at stemming global poverty. The organization has been at work in Ghana since 1957, providing programs to enhance food security, improve healthcare. Read More »

The inaugural Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Week at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa began Thursday. The theme for the event was "Science, Technology and Research for Development of a Nation" and was organized by the African Union (AU) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the government of Ethiopia. Martial De-Paul Ikounga opened the event. Read More »