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 »

Representatives from the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization's Agricultural Water for Africa program recently visited the AU-SAFGRAD office in Ouagadougou, Read More »

The United Kingdom's Minister for Africa James Duddridge visited Ghana and Ivory Coast last week to promote business collaborations between the U.K. and West Africa nations. Read More »

The International Office of Migration (IOM) began a 10-day training in Mauritania aimed at enhancing the capacity of Mauritania and Mali to control their borders. Read More »

The number of new hotel rooms expected to built this year in Africa is up 30 percent from last year, according to a survey conducted by the W Hospitality Group. Read More »

International Monetary Fund (IMF) representatives recently met with Burkina Faso's Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thiéba and other officials in Ouagadougou to discuss the country's economy. Read More »

Telecommunications company Orange announced Thursday that it has completed its acquisition of the Liberian mobile services company Cellcom. Read More »

A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently met with Guinea-Bissau President José Mário Vaz and other officials to discuss the country's economy in relation to its three-year loan from the IMF. Read More »

U.K. Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne recently visited Ghana to further strengthen the bond between the two countries before the U.K. summit on anti-corruption and Ghana-U.K. collaborations. Read More »

New Horizons Systems Solutions Ltd., in partnership with Logical Operations, is offering a new training course aimed at protecting organizations against cyberattacks. Read More »

The U.S. Agency for International Development recently donated vehicles and equipment to the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute. Read More »

James Duddridge, the U.K. minister for Africa, recently visited Ghana and addressed the country with a speech on how to build the economy and bring it out of poverty. Read More »

Niger's International Office of Migration announced the opening of a migrant information office in the town of Agadez in the Sahara to counsel potential migrants on how to travel safely. Read More »

Adam Afriye, a U.K. trade envoy to Ghana, recently spoke at the launch of Business is GREAT in Accra, Ghana, to highlight U.K. capabilities in health care, technology, creative industries, education, agritechnology and financial, legal and professional services. Read More »

A group from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by John Wakeman-Linn recently conducted the 2016 Article IV consultation discussions in Sierra Leone. Read More »

Access Bank recently revealed that NCR SelfServ ATMs will be placed throughout its existing branches and remote Nigerian locations by the middle of this year. Read More »

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently concluded Article IV Consultation with Nigeria, noting that its economy is facing significant challenges. Read More »