The African Union brought together economists from around Africa and abroad for its Fourth Congress of African Economists recently in Accra, Ghana. Read More »

After three recent African elections, African Union Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma sent congratulatory messages to John Magufuli, Tanzania's newly elected president, as well as re-elected Presidents Alassane Ouattara of the Ivory Coast and Alpha Condé of Guinea. Read More »

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently approved a $71.8 million Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement with a $44.9 million augmentation for Liberia through a three-month extension by IMF's executive board. Read More »

DuPont Pioneer, Heartland Global and the Agropolis Foundation hosted farmers, researchers and business leaders from around the world at an international forum recently to discuss ways to reverse the decades-long decline in Africa's millet and sorghum production levels. Read More »

The goal of the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) West African Seed Program (WASP) since its 2012 inception has been to boost West Africa's agricultural sector by increasing the supply of quality certified seeds to the region. Read More »

The fifth Meeting of the Continental Task Force (CTF) on the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) at the Experts level was held recently in Abuja, Nigeria. Read More »

Panoro Energy, based in the United Kingdom, has wrapped up well operations at the Aje field, off the coast of Nigeria. Read More »

European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica visited Niger recently. Read More »

Nigerian entrepreneur Chris Kwekowe, 22, has won the $25,000 grand prize in the fifth annual Anzisha Prize awards. Read More »

Sub-Saharan Africa's mobile operators will have expanded and better services through a new partnership between telecom infrastucture company Camusat and satellite operations leader Eutelsat Communications. Read More »

Twenty students graduated from Pan African University's Institute for Life and Earth Sciences (including Health and Agriculture) on Tuesday in Ibadan, Nigeria. Read More »

Ghana is joining a continent-wide effort to spread solar energy to African nations, and with it, better access to electricity. Read More »

Financial services for Sierra Leone's poor should be more accessible, thanks to the nation’s first mobile-banking regulations, instituted through a partnership between the nation's Central Bank, Bank of Sierra Leone, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF). Read More »

Global pharmaceutical and technology company Merck said on Wednesday that it has opened an office in Nigeria, its first in the African nation. Read More »

With the World Health Organization recently announcing that Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic is over, a Community Policing Project has been instituted in the Kambia border district. Read More »

Nigeria-based online retailer Jumia is set to make its third Black Friday in business its best one yet. "Our projections for this Black Friday 2015 are surpassing anything we could have hoped for only a year ago," Fatoumata Ba, managing director of Jumia Nigeria, said. Read More »

The U.S. Mission to Nigeria and the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs said on Tuesday that they are seeking proposals for the 2016 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), which was created to help nations preserve their cultural heritage and nurture U.S. respect for other cultures. Read More »

Telecommunications firm Orange and other members of the ACE consortium said on Wednesday that they have launched the next phase of the ACE submarine cable system, which will expand the availability of digital services through broadband connectivity in Africa. Read More »

Two new Food for Progress agreements to boost trade and agricultural development in Ghana's poultry industry were unveiled on Tuesday by U.S. Deputy Agriculture Secretary Krysta Harden and Ghanaian Minister of Food and Agriculture Fifi Kwetey. Read More »

Ecobank Nigeria Limited Managing Director Jibril Aku will step down at the end of 2015 after a five-year tenure, in accordance with bank policy on term limits, and assume another senior management position at the bank in early 2016. Read More »