The 48th meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) took place Dec. 17 and Dec. 18. The meeting, which took place in Abuja, Nigeria, was headed by Macky Sall, president of Senegal and ECOWAS chair. The meeting was a chance for heads of ECOWAS nations to discuss peace and security issues, including the new cross-border threats to the ECOWAS region. Read More »

The West African Development Bank (BOAD) recently set an ambitious goal of attracting $500 million in international investment during the final quarter of 2015. Read More »

Nigeria Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Ibe Kachikwu has been working over the past week with officials from the NNPC to ensure that an adequate supply of petroleum is kept flowing to not only the nation's cities, but also to both rural and outlying areas. Over the holidays, Kachikwu and NNPC oversaw the trucking of more than 22 million liters of petroleum across Nigeria. Read More »

A solar lamp that won the VELUX Natural Light International Design Competition last year is being manufactured, and 14,500 of them will be available for sale to residents of Senegal, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The lamp was designed by Mariana Arando and Luca Fondello of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The next step for the company is training 150 locals in those respective countries to act as VELUX sales agents Read More »

A delegation of African printing and graphic leaders will attend the 19th annual Sign and Graphic Imaging (SGI) Dubai trade show Sunday through Tuesday at the Dubai World Trade Centre.Organized by International Expo Consults (IEC), the event is expected to attract more than 12,000 visitors from across the globe. Read More »

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde arrived in West Africa Monday. Lagarde will be in Africa through Jan. 9, visiting Nigeria and Cameroon to discuss IMF's partnerships with its member nations. During her time in Nigeria, Lagarde will go to the capital city of Abuja to speak with President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian officials, lawmakers and business owners. Read More »

According to officials from Cairn Energy, one of Europe's independent oil and gas exploration development companies, positive results were obtained from recent testing of an SNE-2 appraisal well in offshore Senegal. Drilling, coring, logging and drill-stem testing were conducted on the SNE-2 well, which is located about 100 kilometers offshore in Carin's Senegalese block. Read More »

The importance of clean, reliable power is a priority to the region's officials, and that was reflected in the attendance numbers at the WAPIC, which took place in Lagos, Nigeria, Nov. 25 to Nov. 26. “The buzz around the exhibition floor was electric with visitors wanting to learn about the latest products and services,” WAPIC Progam Director Natalie Bacon said. Read More »

The first Africa Finance & Investment Forum, with the theme “Access to Finance and Enterpreneurship, Read More »

First Mining Finance Corp. recently brokered a deal to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Goldrush Resources Ltd., a company with two gold projects in Burkina Faso, both companies said on Wednesday. Read More »

The Bonga North West deep-water oil-drilling development recently won two awards in the U.S and Qatar, Shell Nigeria said this week. Read More »

Global submarine network provider Huawei Marine Networks Co. Ltd. said recently that a 9,028-mile upgrade of the West African Cable System (WACS) is now up and running. Read More »

MoneyGram recently became the first money-transfer company to let customers transfer money quickly from France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain to most Nigerian bank accounts. Read More »

Following peaceful campaigns and a smooth election, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was inaugurated as Burkina Faso's new president this week in Ouagadougou, the nation's capital. Read More »

The end of the Ebola pandemic in West Africa is good news, but efforts must continue to prevent another such occurrence, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said this week. Read More »

Malian Transport Ministry officials said the $1.1 billion needed to fund the Senegalese section of the Malian railway line that connects Bamako, Mali, and Dakar, Senegal, will be provided by a loan from the Chinese government. Read More »

The Tanlouka Gold Project in Burkina Faso will be fast-tracked, thanks to an additional $2.1 million in funding secured by representatives from West African Resources Limited, the Canadian company that owns the mine. Read More »

As nations in West Africa recover after the Ebola pandemic of 2015, monitoring efforts continue, headed by representatives of the Government of Liberia (GoL), Canada's USG Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), and other local and regional relief organizations. Read More »

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab, a global security company ranked as one of the world's top four security solutions providers for end-point users, recently predicted the top security risks for 2016. Read More »

An Ebola treatment center in Ganta, Liberia -- operated by PCI Liberia, a global development organization that oversees projects dedicated to improving health and ending hunger -- officially closed this week. Read More »