Nigerian and Saudi Arabian leaders met Tuesday to discuss strategies to stabilize the oil market in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. The meeting took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and was hosted by King Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia. Abdul-Aziz discussed the threat of terrorist acts in the region and ways to prevent them with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.  Read More »

U.S.-based Mondelez International's Cocoa Life Sustainability program has assisted 76,700 farmers in nearly 800 communities since it began in 2012. The program covers the cocoa-growing regions of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, India and Brazil. Mondelez reports that farmers in the Cocoa Life regions have experienced tripled incomes since 2009. Read More »

An emergency arbitrator has partially granted and denied emergency relief measures requested by SCS Corp. for a dispute with multinational oil and gas exploration companies Tullow Guinea Ltd. and Dana Petroleum Ltd. SCS, an oil and gas exploration company, filed action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Jan. 8. Read More »

Roxgold Inc. announced positive results from QV1 and QV Prime drilling programs at its Bagassi South project in Burkina Faso. The Bagassi South project is adjacent to Roxgold's main gold interest in Burkina Faso. Gold is expected to be produced from these projects; Roxgold officials anticipate the Bagassi South project will enhance the value of the Yaramoko gold project. Read More »

WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo took time to visit with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo and Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Okechukwu Enelamah during a visit. The leaders talked about ways Nigeria could benefit from WTO's services, and Azevêdo expressed the organization's commitment to keeping Nigeria moving forward. Read More »

In an effort to make the telecom sector more transparent to its customers in Ghana, the AFAG has been a vocal supporter of establishing an ICH. According AFAG officials Henry Haruna Asante, Wesley Owusu and Davis Opoku, a recent NCA press conference indicated that many of Ghana's telecom providers were in favor of the ICH, which has been in development for seven years. Read More »

Shallow oxide results have come in from the Tanlouka Gold Project, which is owned by Canadian gold development company West African Resources Limited. Among the findings at the project's M3 eastern zone were shallow oxide gold mineralization, potential to add ounces to existing heap leach and a probable ore reserve of 440,000 ounces of gold. The project has been active since 2010. Read More »

The 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Nigeria and China was marked on Feb. 10. In a letter to Nigeria's Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pointed out that much effort has gone into maintaining good relations between the two nations, including many missions back and forth that brought high-level leaders to the countries. Read More »

With its acquisition of Tundra Corp., liquefied natural gas shipping company Golar LNG is now the owner of Golar Tundra, a floating storage and regasification unit off the coast of Ghana. The transaction was worth $330 million, $230 million of which will cover remaining lease obligations and bank financing. Golar made an upfront payment of 10 percent of the purchase price. Read More »

To prevent debit and credit card fraud for West African users, representatives from Visa Business School is hosting a three-day fraud prevention workshop in Dakar, Senegal. Topics being covered at the workshop, which was attended by 17 banks, included the latest technology in debit and credit cards and best practices for using them as well as fraud trends and how to detect them. Read More »

Chinese Ambassador Gu Xiaojie was in Nigeria Tuesday to meet with leaders and recognize the 45th anniversary of China and Nigeria's diplomatic relationship. During his visit, Xiaojie met with Nigerian Minister of Communication Adebayo Shittu in Abuja. The leaders discussed a number of topics, including communication and bilateral relations between their nations. Read More »

In an effort to connect businesses in the West African nation of Ghana with British suppliers of health care, technology and creative products and services, the U.K. has launched a matching service businesses can use free of charge. Company representatives from Ghana can register for the service, which has contact information for more than 20,000 suppliers. Read More »

In keeping with a purchase agreement, AFC now owns a stake in Sub-Saharan Africa's Cabeólica Wind Farm. Cabeólica Wind Farm has more than 30 wind turbines operating across four islands of Cape Verde: Boa Vista, Sao Vincente, Sal and Santiago. The farm has the capacity to produce 20 percent of the energy to keep Cape Verde running and provides electricity for 360,000 households. Read More »

David G. Bala, outgoing ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Burkina Faso, gave a farewell address at the AU SAFGRAD project office in Burkina Faso. Bala spoke about the importance of agriculture to the continent of Africa and encouraged AU SAFGRAD Coordinator Ahmed Elemekass to continue working on regional integration as Africa moves toward agricultural development. Read More »

Technology advances in Nigeria are changing the way business is done, with smartphones and cloud applications offered through the country's growing telecom infrastructure. Having access to these tools allows businesses to run more efficiently. “Mobility is the growth engine of the Nigerian economy,” Magnus Nmonwu, regional director of Software Services for Sage West Africa, said.  Read More »

African entrepreneurs are invited to bring their best ideas to the MTN Entrepreneurship Challenge. MTN is a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company. Partnering with MTN on the challenge is online shopping site Jumia. These competitors are challenged to develop a digital application or smart solution to solve a specific challenge present in Africa. Read More »

In an effort to make its network security products more accessible to consumers in French-speaking West Africa, Clavister has entered into a distribution agreement with Defis & Strategies Group. Defis works with many other African companies, including firms in Burkina Faso. Defis will oversee the sale and distribution of Clavister's NGFW and gateway security solutions to the market. Read More »

With the extension of existing contracts, i-Tech will continue to provide two companies running exploration operations in offshore Equatorial Guinea with intervention tooling, survey and inspection services. One of the contracts is for five years; the other is for three years. i-Tech personnel will also be tasked with standard and bespoke engineering solutions for both projects. Read More »

BodySamsung Electronics Africa officials recently announced the company's plans to contribute to the efforts others are making to help the continent reach its Sustainable Development Goals. Read More »

Roberto Azevêdo made a stop in Ivory Coast on Tuesday. Azevêdo was able to meet Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara as well as Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan and Minister of Trade Jean-Louis Billon. “[Ivory Coast] has been working hard to boost growth and development through a series of reforms, including by improving infrastructure and facilitating trade," Azevêdo said. Read More »