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 »

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) Article IV consultation with Benin that ended late last week revealed significant economic growth in 2015, as well as low inflation and low debt. Read More »

Sierra Leone native Massah KaiKai wanted to find a way to show the world there was more to her family's homeland than civil war and the recent Ebola pandemic. Read More »

Burkina Faso's Essakane Mine was one of three African mines to earn 2015 Toward Sustainable Mining (TSM) Leadership Awards from the Mining Association of Canada. Read More »

The recent Climate Change Conference in Paris saw the launch of the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI). Read More »

The Submarine Cable Awareness Workshop was held recently in Accra, Ghana, in an effort to raise awareness and protect international submarine cables and pipelines on the ocean's seabed offshore Ghana. This infrastructure provides Internet service and other trans-oceanic communications and data transfer in the region. Read More »

U.S.-based hydrogen fuel technology company MagneGas Corp. signed a memo of understanding (MoU) with Sierra Leone-based Masada Waste Management, which will import MagneGas fuel and equipment, MagneGas said on Wednesday. Read More »

Economically disadvantaged young adults ages 15-24 in Ghana and Uganda now can turn to the Youth Forward Initiative, an international program that will help them find jobs in the continent's growing agricultural and construction sectors, or even start their own businesses. Read More »