Resource estimates are in for a deposit that is part of a joint venture gold mining project in the West African nation of Mali. Canadian company IAMGOLD Corp. owns the Siribaya project, a joint venture with Merrex Gold Inc. Each company owns 50 percent interest in the project. The estimate reports are a requirement of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM). Read More »

Fatma Samoura officially began her tenure as United Nation resident coordinator and UNDP resident representative in Nigeria Friday. In this role, Samoura will oversee the coordination and implementation of UN programs in Nigeria. Samoura hopes to work on poverty eradication and humanitarian pursuits. Samoura will work closely with the Nigerian government to achieve SDGs. Read More »

IOM recently provided business assistance to fishermen. Typically, fishermen in this region use trafficked children to help them fish. Consequently, in addition to providing funding, IOM representatives showed 12 fishermen, who agreed to release trafficked children, how they could earn additional income producing cash crops or working in animal husbandry instead. Read More »

The Ivory Coast became the 23rd nation added to the amended Convention on the Limitation Period on the International Sale of Goods as well as the 30th participant in the unamended Convention. The Convention has been in place since June 12, 1974, and puts in place rules about the time period in which any legal proceedings connected to an international sales contract must begin. Read More »

In an effort to introduce more businesses to its products and services, CaseWare Africa will host forums in February in Nigeria and Kenya. Company officials hope leaders and associates of businesses looking to upgrade their software solutions will attend the forums, which will include sessions geared toward accounting and auditing practitioners and business financial professionals. Read More »

Foreign Office Minister for Africa James Duddridge visited the West African nation of Senegal Monday and Tuesday. During his visit, Duddridge met with Senegalese President Macky Sall to discuss a number of issues, including border and interior security and economic growth in the region and opportunities for business partnerships between entities in the United Kingdom and Senegal. Read More »

Resource Improvement and Manufacturing Company Limited (RIMCO), under the umbrella of Nigerian-based Chicason Group, awarded Florida-based NV5 Global Inc. a contract to handle its technical services. The contract signed by the two companies was worth more than $3 million. NV5 was paid in advance for all sub-phases, along with a 30 percent pre-payment for program initiation. Read More »

MTN Nigeria has chosen global digital security corporation Gemalto's LinqUs Mobile ID platform to provide its customers with SIM-based services. This partnership marks the first-ever commercial offering of SIM-based services, dubbed "MTN Token," for MTN customers. MTN Nigeria serves 70 million subscribers. With MTN Token, customers will enjoy more secure web access. Read More »

To give new entrepreneurs access to important information, Orange has developed the online site the Entrepreneur Club. Information on the site is available in both English and French and is geared toward new business owners in Africa and the Middle East to provide advice and resources for new companies. It also offers information germane to specific areas of business. Read More »

Officials at the American stock exchange Nasdaq recently provided its SMARTS Marketing Surveillance platform to the NSE to improve NSE's compliance program. Putting SMARTS into place will allow NSE to better track possible incidents of market manipulation, spoofing and layering. Tony Sio, head of SMARTS, said Nasdaq was optimistic about its new partnership at NSE Read More »

Hosted by the British High Commissioner, the Chevening Alumni Association was launched Wednesday and attended by many past recipients of scholarships and fellowships. Some of Ghana's most influential people have been recipients of Chevening scholarships and fellowships; worldwide, 44,000 people have received Chevening scholarships. Honorees are chosen by members of British embassies. Read More »

Technology use in the West African nation of Nigeria is growing rapidly as is evidenced by recent statistics, showing that 16 million in Nigeria visit Facebook each day. Facebook officials recently visited Nigeria to find out how people were using the site and what would make it better for them; already, 100 percent of Nigerian users access Facebook via the site's mobile app. Read More »

To boost aviation security, officials from the West African nation of Nigeria and the United Kingdom have partnered to come up with strategies to prevent acts of terrorism from happening on airplanes. For the past several years, British High Commissioner Paul Arkwright and the U.K. Department of Transport have worked on aviation security initiatives with Henrietta Yakubu. Read More »

Officials of Canadian mining and exploration company Sarama Resources Ltd. released revised mineral resource estimates for one of its projects in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. An 87 percent increase in the oxide component of inferred mineral resources was found at the South Hounde Gold Project, and a 40 percent increase was found in total inferred mineral resources. Read More »

The agriculture sectors in the West African nations of Benin and Togo will receive a financial boost in 2016 from the European nation of Germany. Benin will receive more than $22 million to fund projects at the Green Innovation Center in Cotonou, which is part of Germany's and the International Food Policy Research Institutes' "A World Without Hunger" initiative. Read More »

As the result of a transaction worth more than $85 million, global insurance provider AXA became the exclusive insurance products and services provider for e-commerce firm Africa Internet Group (AIG) Tuesday. Under the terms of the agreement between the two companies, AXA will also own about 8 percent of AIG's capital. AIG's extensive portfolio of mobile platforms includes Jumia. Read More »

Ghana National Petroleum Corp. (GNPC) recently partnered with pan-African energy investment firm Quantum Power on the storage, re-gasification and delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on the Tema project in Tema, Ghana. Spanning 20 years, the project will cost more than $550 million to get started. It is estimated the project will produce 3.4 million tons of LNG annually. Read More »

To increase awareness about the World Bank's services, the bank's vice president for the African region, Makhtar Diop, traveled to Burkina Faso Monday. Burkina Faso has been a member of the World Bank Group since 1963. Presently, there are 16 national projects underway in the nation sponsored by the World Bank. These projects carry a total investment of about $1,047.69 million. Read More »

A major mobile operations corporation in the Ivory Coast has selected Swedish telecommunications provider Seamless to put in place a necessary transaction switch for $2 million. Seamless, which serves customers mainly in Africa, the Middle East and South America, will provide the Ivory Coast company with the information technology and logistics services necessary. Read More »

Those looking to obtain a work visa in the West African nation of Senegal may have the option to use priority service. Those who pay for priority service are guaranteed their completed applications will move straight to the front of the visa queue. Normal non-settlement visa applications are typically processed within five to seven business days. Cost for priority service is $172.47. Read More »