Accelerating Africa’s economic and social growth, the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa has created a $68 billion priority action plan to overhaul the continent’s lagging internal connectivity and bring its nations into alignment. Read More »

The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) Training School and Academy in Assin Fosu, Ghana is getting a $3.4 million information technology lab through a partnership with IOM Ghana, the GIS and funding from the European Union. Read More »

Randgold Resources Ltd. is offering $150,000 toward building Ivory Coast's first golf academy for kids. Read More »

Officials from the Department of Human Sources, Sciences and Technology met Monday to review a report on the portability of job skills. Read More »

The steering committee for AFRITAC West 2 met in Gambia on Tuesday. Read More »

MainOne executives are pledging to boost Africa's connectivity through improvements in the continent's submarine cable network. Read More »

British Minister for Africa James Duddridge met with Ivory Coast's Minister of Petroleum and Energy Adama Toungara Wednesday for a tour of Aggreko's 200-megawatt, gas-powered power plant in Abidjan. Read More »

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 »