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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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

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

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden led a delegation of U.S. agribusiness representatives on a recent trade mission to Ghana, co-hosted by Ghana Minister of Food and Agriculture Fifi Kwetey. Read More »

A second review of a financial and economic program sponsored by the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Extended Credit Facility (ECF) to aid Ghana was the focus of an IMF team's recent visit to the African nation. Read More »

The Peace and Security Council of the African Union met recently to discuss the ongoing transitional government in Burkina Faso in the wake of September's failed seven-day coup attempt. Read More »

Health care needs in many African nations are increasing at a rapid rate. Such is the case for Nigeria and Kenya. Read More »

Facebook and telecommunications company Bharti Airtel Africa recently said they have partnered to expand an Internet-access program, called Free Basics, to four more African nations. Read More »

The USAID/Ghana Local Governance Decentralization Program (LOGODEP) recently held a two-day closeout workshop in Busua, Ghana, to discuss the five-year program's results. Read More »