Feasibility study completed on Mali's Kobada Gold Project

A feasibility study was recently completed on the Kobada Gold Project in the West African nation of Mali. The study revealed 511,000 ounces of gold within two oxide open pits at the site as well as a proved and probable reserve of 12.7 million tons, capacity for gold production exceeding 50,000 ounces each year and average cash costs of $557 per ounce of gold produced. Read More »

Conference addresses macroeconomic issues of West African nations

A recent conference hosted by the government of Ghana, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Kingdom Department for International Development in Accra, Ghana, saw macroeconomic policymakers from more than 40 African nations gather. The conference was also attended by officials from educational and financial institutions and a variety of international organizations. Read More »

Coca-Cola, TGI Group venture into Nigeria’s Chi Limited

Culminating six decades of Nigerian investment, Coca-Cola expanded further into dairy and juice products in West Africa with an initial share purchase in Chi Ltd. As the holding company of Chi Ltd., Coca-Cola entered into an agreement to acquire an initial minority shareholding of 40 percent in Chi Ltd., establishing a solid partnership to deliver Nigeria's beverages. Read More »

Summit aims to introduce African farmers to mechanized operations

With a goal of helping farmers throughout the continent of Africa mechanize their operations, representatives from U.S. farm equipment company AGCO are attending the 10th Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The package is built around Massey Ferguson's MF Series tractors and has been developed with farmers new to mechanization in mind. Read More »

Summit honors African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Scientific Awards 2015 recipients

The AUC honored professor Tebello Nyokong and professor Opara Umezurike with the Kwame Nkrumah Continental Scientific Awards. The awards are dedicated to three different levels: regional, national and continental. The purpose is to recognize the African men and women who are involved in science and who stand out because of their training and research contributions to develop Africa. Read More »

2016 African Year of Human Rights plans include agriculture and agro-processing

FAO officials intend to invest resources that guarantee women's rights to land and similar productive resources. As part of the 2016 African Year of Human Rights action plans, the agricultural and agro-processing initiatives are meant to increase food production and generate added wealth to help family farmers. It will also minimize and prevent waste and loss of food. Read More »

UN requests over $500 million for Nigeria, CAR crises

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), along with its partners, is seeking $545 million to help those fleeing conflicts in Nigeria and the Central African Republic (CAR). Liz Ahua, UNHCR's regional refugee coordinator for Nigeria and CAR, said both areas are facing violence on a daily basis, including incidences of suicide attacks and indiscriminate killings. Read More »

BIA to serve as official distributor of Cummins products

Cummins has entered into a deal that gives BIA the rights to distribute its engines, generators and filtration units throughout numerous countries in Africa. Under the agreement, the Belgium-based company is now the official distributor of Cummins industrial engines and generators in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the Congo, the DRC, the Central African Republican and Togo. Read More »

Jersey nonprofit brings effective math, science programs to Gambia

A high-tech teaching regimen developed by the New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is helping students in Gambia perform better on standardized tests. Since 2012, CTL has been working with the Gambia MoBSE to see if a program that successfully improved student performance in math and science in New Jersey would have the same impact on students in West Africa. Read More »

Pope and president of Togo commit to security and peace

Pope Francis and Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe recently met to establish as well as maintain security and peace in Sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting included Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and the secretary for Relations with States. The world leaders agreed that there are currently good relations between Togo and the Holy See. Read More »

Sage holds first Business Partner Conference in South Africa

Sage gathered more than 700 of its business partners together for its first Business Partner Conference in South Africa Wednesday. Taking a significant step forward in becoming a worldwide market leader for uniting payroll, accounting and payment systems, the conference included a variety of presentations from Sage CEO Stephen Kelly and Safe International President Ivan Epstein. Read More »

AU signs MoU for Development of pan-African agribusiness holding company

African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Egypt's SOBEK Trade and Investment Chairperson Manal Abdel Moneim signed a Memorandum of Understanding Jan. 19. The MOU is for the development of a Pan-African agribusiness holding Company and was inspired by the African Union's annual themes from 2014 and 2015 and the African Agribusiness Strategy. Read More »

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