Eighteen tourism ministers and other officials from around Africa met this week in Ivory Coast to discuss tourism ethics, security and development. Read More »

The International Monetary Fund recently wrapped up a visit to Mali to assess the country's financial progress. Read More »

The International Office of Migration Senegal has begun construction on a series of five border posts on its Mali and Mauritania boundaries. Read More »

Director General of the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission Mounir Gwazo gave the keynote address Tuesday at the Commodity Trading and Risk Management Seminar in Abuja. Read More »

The U.S. Agency for International Development's West Africa Trade and Investment Hub hosted a training for development specialists from seven West African countries aimed at clarifying the exporting process last week in Washington, D.C. Read More »

Leaders from the African Caucus and the International Monetary Fund met at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C. Monday to discuss the African economy. Read More »

Ivory Coast President of the National Assembly Guillaume Soro met with Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Yu Zhengsheng Thursday in Abidjan. Read More »

Facebook's collaboration with African developers was on display this month in San Francisco during the company's F8 developer conference. Read More »

U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Robert Jackson will attend a ceremony today in Accra celebrating the opening of new DNA scanning equipment at Green Medical Centre. Read More »

Senegal recently became the 20th African nation to go through the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) to monitor for good governance. Read More »

Representatives from the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization's Agricultural Water for Africa program recently visited the AU-SAFGRAD office in Ouagadougou, Read More »

The United Kingdom's Minister for Africa James Duddridge visited Ghana and Ivory Coast last week to promote business collaborations between the U.K. and West Africa nations. Read More »

The International Office of Migration (IOM) began a 10-day training in Mauritania aimed at enhancing the capacity of Mauritania and Mali to control their borders. Read More »

The number of new hotel rooms expected to built this year in Africa is up 30 percent from last year, according to a survey conducted by the W Hospitality Group. Read More »

International Monetary Fund (IMF) representatives recently met with Burkina Faso's Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thiéba and other officials in Ouagadougou to discuss the country's economy. Read More »

Telecommunications company Orange announced Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of the Liberian mobile services company Cellcom. Read More »

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently met with Guinea-Bissau President José Mário Vaz and other officials to discuss the country's economy in relation to its three-year loan from the IMF. Read More »

U.K. Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne recently visited Ghana to further strengthen the bond between the two countries before the U.K. summit on anti-corruption and Ghana-U.K. collaborations. Read More »

New Horizons Systems Solutions Ltd., in partnership with Logical Operations, is offering a new training course aimed at protecting organizations against cyberattacks. Read More »

The U.S. Agency for International Development recently donated vehicles and equipment to the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute. Read More »