West African Leaders Adopt Abuja Regional Action Agenda To Accelerate Women’s Political Leadership
Ministers, parliamentarians, political party leaders and women’s networks from across West Africa today adopted the Abuja Regional Action Agenda, setting out concrete, time-bound steps to advance the vision embodied in…
Africa’s Fragile States To Enjoy AfDB’s New Climate Finance Instrument for Off-Grid Renewable Energy projects
The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors has approved a $5.65 million reimbursable grant from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) to pilot the Peace Renewable Energy Certificate…
How Data Centers Are Reshaping Africa’s Power Market
The global digital economy is driving an unprecedented surge in electricity demand from data centers and IT infrastructure. Worldwide, uninterruptible power supply demand for IT equipment alone is forecast to…
Time Is Running Out to Close Continent’s Massive Infrastructure and Climate-Finance Gap – 2025 Africa Investment Forum Panel Warns
Senior policymakers, investors, and development finance leaders converged at the 2025 Africa Investment Forum Market Days on Thursday to tackle one of the continent’s most pressing challenges: unlocking the capital…
ECOWAS Commits To Boosting Women’s Empowerment In Agrifood Systems
BY IRIBHOGBE BUKUNOLA MONSURAT Women are at the beating heart of agrifood systems in sub-Saharan Africa. They lead through innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience, but still face a much steeper slope…
African Influencers Unite at the African Union to Reclaim the Narrative on 141 Years Since the Berlin Conference
BY MOJEED OLADIPUPO JAMALDEEN Marking 141 years since the Berlin Conference, a dark day when Africa’s soul was fragmented, African influencers, Journalists, Content Creators, Artists, Cultural Custodians, Activists, and Policymakers…
Terrorism In Africa, A ‘Growing Global Threat’ – UN Chief
BY MOJEED OLADIPUPO JAMALDEEN That’s according to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres who told the Security Council on Monday that the growth in terrorist groups was “not only a regional…
Ghana Govt To Invest GH¢13.9 Billion ‘Big Push’ Infrastructure Drive
Government has made known plans to allocate billions of cedis towards large-scale infrastructure projects under what it calls the ‘Big Push’ initiative, aimed at bridging the country’s critical infrastructure deficit…
ECOWAS Strengthens Strategy To Make West Africa World’s Tourist Destination
ECOWAS Commission has launched a four-day technical meeting on the 8th of July,2025 in Cotonou, Benin. This meeting brings together experts from Member States to examine six draft classification standards…