Nigeria-based online retailer Jumia is set to make its third Black Friday in business its best one yet. "Our projections for this Black Friday 2015 are surpassing anything we could have hoped for only a year ago," Fatoumata Ba, managing director of Jumia Nigeria, said. Read More »

The U.S. Mission to Nigeria and the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs said on Tuesday that they are seeking proposals for the 2016 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP), which was created to help nations preserve their cultural heritage and nurture U.S. respect for other cultures. Read More »

Telecommunications firm Orange and other members of the ACE consortium said on Wednesday that they have launched the next phase of the ACE submarine cable system, which will expand the availability of digital services through broadband connectivity in Africa. Read More »

Two new Food for Progress agreements to boost trade and agricultural development in Ghana's poultry industry were unveiled on Tuesday by U.S. Deputy Agriculture Secretary Krysta Harden and Ghanaian Minister of Food and Agriculture Fifi Kwetey. Read More »

Ecobank Nigeria Limited Managing Director Jibril Aku will step down at the end of 2015 after a five-year tenure, in accordance with bank policy on term limits, and assume another senior management position at the bank in early 2016. Read More »

In conjuction with the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa's (PIDA) first-ever PIDA Week, the Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG) convened its second meeting at the African Development Bank's (AfDB) headquarters late last week in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Read More »

U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive order late last week to terminate a national emergency declared in Liberia in July 2004. Read More »

Money-transfer service Ping Express offers Nigerians living in the U.S. a way to send and receive money conveniently and securely, to and from loved ones in Nigeria, free of charge for transactions under $150. Read More »

Nigerian business and ethical-networking platform and sustainability consultant group  CSR-in-Action will co-host the fourth annual Sustainability in the Extractive Industries (SITEI) conference on Thursday in Abuja with the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), the Nigerian Government Chapter of the global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Read More »

An online press conference by the Africa Progress Panel on the upcoming COP21 climate-change conference and treaty talks will take place at 2 p.m. GMT on Thursday. Read More »

U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden, leaders from five states' departments of agriculture, and representatives from 26 U.S. agribusinesses and organizations are on a mission trip to sub-Saharan Africa this week to help expand export opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products. Read More »

The Fourth African Economists Congress, titled “Industrial Policy and Economic Performance in Africa,” is underway this week in Accra, Ghana. Read More »

Nigeria's new minister of health, Dr. Issac Adewole, has voiced his support for the LuViva Advanced Cervical Scan, and he conducted Africa's first clinical trial of the product last year. Read More »

Kenya and Nigeria have been awarded grants from the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine to improve infectious-disease research, detection and response efforts. Read More »

To celebrate Western Union's 20 years of service in Africa, CEO Hikmet Ersek will take a regional tour of the continent and participate in an online press conference at 11 a.m. (GMT) on Friday. Read More »

Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) negotiations were front and center last week at the Conference of the African Private Sector, held in Victoria, Seychelles.The conference was organized by the African Union Commission (AUC) in partnership with the Pan African Chamber of Commerce (PACCI) and the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Read More »

Massey Ferguson said late last week that it will release a new line of lower-horsepower MF 300 Series tractors in several African and Middle Eastern markets.  The company also will market new Massey Ferguson-brand tractor implements for  planting, cultivation and transport in the same markets. New products will be introduced as demand dictates. Read More »

To bring awareness to the importance of transparency in Nigeria's business and government landscape, the Transparency Forum Initiative, targeted roundtable sessions aimed at putting in place legal and regulatory reforms with regard to transparency, will kick off with a press conference Nov. 17. Organizers hope the initiative will open a dialogue about transparency. Read More »

George Matharu said a business event his company sponsored Nov. 11 at the House of Lords in London was "hugely successful." The event was dubbed "Africa Business Safari" and focused on ways to protect and promote health, education, political stability, security and sustainability in the continent. The goal of the event was to bring awareness to business possibilities in Africa. Read More »

The inaugural Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Week at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa began Thursday. The theme for the event was "Science, Technology and Research for Development of a Nation" and was organized by the African Union (AU) and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the government of Ethiopia. Martial De-Paul Ikounga opened the event. Read More »