Pitso Kekana, head of public affairs and corporate citizenship for Samsung Africa RHQ, said on Monday that Africa's high unemployment rate could be lessened if more workers were trained in relevant skills and job growth would catch up to a growing working-age population. Read More »

"FIFTY," the sole film from Nigeria and one of only five films from Africa to be among the 238 films chosen for screening at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival this past fall, will be available for streaming on Netflix beginning Dec. 28. Read More »

Yemdaogo Eric Tiare is the new permanent representative of Burkina Faso to the United Nations (U.N.). Read More »

Goldbelt Empires Ltd. said late last week that it has completed an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey of the company's South Morila gold-concession site in Mali. Read More »

Africans and visitors throughout the continent will have access to Movit Media Corp.'s MOVIT phone app, thanks to a three-year licensing agreement between Movit Media and Spiritage SA Ltd. of Johannesburg, South Africa. Read More »

Gold developer West African Resources Limited released results on Tuesday from preliminary metallurgical tests on the M1 and M3 prospects at its Tanlouka Gold Project in Burkina Faso. Read More »

The first phase of gold is expected to be extracted in January from Asanko Gold Inc.'s mine in Ghana. Read More »

A recent financial inclusion survey by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) showed 17 percent of Ghana's and Rwanda's adult citizens use mobile money accounts. Read More »

Oil and gas exploration company African Petroleum has partnered, through a new production-sharing contract (PSC), with Ophir Oil Energy on several of African Petroleum's projects in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, African Petroleum said on Monday. Read More »

Aureus Mining of Liberia will pay West African gold-exploration company Sarama Resources Ltd. more common shares than were previously agreed upon in an acquisition deal for three exploration properties in Liberia. Read More »

Two multi-million-dollar contracts have been awarded to ITC Global to provide remote  offshore communications to five floating vessels off the coast of West Africa that are owned by European oil and gas companies, ITC said on Monday. Read More »

Canal Holdings, a media production company based in Benin, has signed a deal with  European satellite owner and operator SES S.A., based in Luxembourg, to distribute Canal's TV channels in several West Africa nations, SES said late last week. Read More »

Canadian company Blutip Power Technologies, which serves many of the world's largest mines and petroleum companies, is now providing its Advanced Universal Controllers (AUCs) to African mines, and the company said on Thursday that it recently landed its first  African customer, one of West Africa's largest gold mines. Read More »

GoviEx Uranium Inc., the mineral resource company overseeing Niger's Madaouela Mine Project and other uranium mines in Niger, said on Thursday that it is restructuring the company in an effort to build performance and value while also cutting operating and sustaining expenses by half. Read More »

The West African nation of Liberia has joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), making it the organization's 163rd member. Read More »

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has invested $14.8 million in the Feed the Future C-4 Cotton Partnership (C4CP) Project in an effort to improve food security by boosting cotton farmers' incomes through better sustainability and partnerships, as well as improving the socio-economic status of women in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Chad (the C-4 countries). Read More »

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) celebrated its 40th anniversary on Thursday. Read More »

The Nigeria-based Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) promotes growth and sustainability in all areas of Africa's economy, including agriculture, which is promoted through the ECOWAS Agricultural Policy (ECOWAP).      Read More »

Representatives from Ghana and Nigeria were among the hundreds who attended the inaugural World Conference for Public Relations and Communications in Emerging Economies (WCPREE), which took place recently in Nairobi, Kenya. Read More »

African shopping website Jumia Nigeria has commissioned the African Press Organization (APO) to handle its media relations in Africa. Read More »