The Cap des Biches power plant in Senegal recently received the first disbursement of $91 million in financing from U.S.-based international power company ContourGlobal and its partners, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and International Finance Corporation (IFC). Read More »
The fourth annual Africa-Arab Summit is set for November 2016 and will take place in Malabo, Equitorial Guinea. In preparation, members of the African Union Commission (AUC) and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States (LAS) met late last week for a series of meetings. Read More »
Pinecrest Resources Ltd. released the results late last week from a preliminary economic assessment of its Enchi Gold Project in Ghana. Read More »
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a meeting in Senegal recently with poultry-industry representatives from Central and West Africa to discuss risk management to control the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the production chain. Read More »
Control Risks, a global business-risk consulting firm, recently released its RiskMap 2016, which tracks trends in global risk and security that may be of concern in the coming year. Read More »
The first half of 2016 will see the launch of a major aquaponics program jointly overseen by Ghana's Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MOFAD) and U.S.-based Zoetic Global. Read More »
The Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) recently honored the Nigerian branch of the Shell Petroleum Development Co. (SPDC) with its 2015 Local Content Operator of the Year Award. Read More »
Asante Gold Corp. said recently that it has secured a Temporary Mining Exploration Operating Permit for its Kubi Gold project in Ghana. Read More »
Pitso Kekana, head of public affairs and corporate citizenship for Samsung Africa RHQ, said on Monday that Africa's high unemployment rate could be lessened if more workers were trained in relevant skills and job growth would catch up to a growing working-age population. Read More »
"FIFTY," the sole film from Nigeria and one of only five films from Africa to be among the 238 films chosen for screening at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival this past fall, will be available for streaming on Netflix beginning Dec. 28. Read More »
Yemdaogo Eric Tiare is the new permanent representative of Burkina Faso to the United Nations (U.N.). Read More »
Goldbelt Empires Ltd. said late last week that it has completed an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey of the company's South Morila gold-concession site in Mali. Read More »
Africans and visitors throughout the continent will have access to Movit Media Corp.'s MOVIT phone app, thanks to a three-year licensing agreement between Movit Media and Spiritage SA Ltd. of Johannesburg, South Africa. Read More »
Gold developer West African Resources Limited released results on Tuesday from preliminary metallurgical tests on the M1 and M3 prospects at its Tanlouka Gold Project in Burkina Faso. Read More »
The first phase of gold is expected to be extracted in January from Asanko Gold Inc.'s mine in Ghana. Read More »
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 »
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