Energy ministers across Africa will gather to discuss investment opportunities for the continent's power sector at the 18th Annual Africa Energy Forum June 22-24 in London.here Read More »

Economic Community of West African States President Allain de Souza recently reached out to Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama in a gesture of solidarity and renewed commitment to economic collaboration in Abuja, Nigeria. Read More »

Tempus Applied Solutions will provide airlift service in north and west Africa for the U.S. Africa Command Special Operations Command Africa division of the U.S. military over the next five years. Read More »

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 »