The government of Sierra Leone, with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Friday concluded a two-day Strategic Workshop on Blended and Innovative Financing for Education to expand investment in the education sector and improve learning opportunities for children.    The workshop is expected to help identify practicalContinue Reading

Africa Tech Festival 2026 is structured around six interconnected pillars that reflect the technologies and priorities driving Africa’s digital economy: Telecoms & Connectivity; Data Centres; AI; Cybersecurity; Startups; and Digital Transformation  Africa Tech Festival (https://AfricaTechFestival.com), the continent’s longest running and most influential technology gathering, will return to the Cape TownContinue Reading

The event highlighted the strong and longstanding partnership between Côte d’Ivoire and the Arab Coordination Group, whose member institutions currently support a development portfolio of nearly USD 4 billion in the country The Government of Côte d’Ivoire, in partnership with the Arab Coordination Group (ACG) (https://TheACG.org), successfully hosted a high-levelContinue Reading

The Government of Ghana, with support from the World Bank Group and development partners, has launched its AgriConnect Compact, a national framework to strengthen food security, create jobs, reduce food imports, and mobilize investment across priority agricultural value chains. The Compact sets out a coordinated agenda for public and privateContinue Reading

This investment is intended to strengthen ATIDI’s capital base and expand its political risk and credit insurance products designed to support foreign direct investment and intra-African trade The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved, on 22 May, a $125 million equity investment in theContinue Reading

By Francis Kobena Tandoh The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) has urged the government to improve investment at the country’s oil fields, particularly at the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) fields amidst declining crude oil production. According to the 2025 Annual Report of PIAC, crude oil production declined for the sixth consecutiveContinue Reading