Goddy Ikeh

The Malian Government has successfully completed a diversified financing operation on the regional financial market, raising 38.2 billion CFA francs through auction of treasury bills and bonds conducted on Wednesday by UMOA-Titres.

Burkina Faso’s Minister of Energy, Mines and Quarries Yacouba Zabré Gouba has joined the African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies 2025 conference – taking place from September 29 to October 3 in Cape Town – as a speaker.

As Nigeria marked the 14th anniversary of the enactment of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) on Wednesday called on all public institutions at the Federal, State, and Local Government levels to commit to the full and effective implementation of the Law, which was signed into force on May 28, 2011.

The Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo must identify and hold to account the police officer who shot journalist Samy Kambere Malikidogo while covering a public demonstration against crime and violence in Durba, in the northeastern province of Haut-Uélé, said the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday.

The Mining in Motion Summit has announced the participation of Hon. Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, Ghana’s Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, as a speaker

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved an investment of $100 million in the industrial platform developer and operator Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms Ltd (Arise IIP) to contribute to funding industrial parks and special economic zones across Africa as a part of our industrialization strategic priority and flagship Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ).

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, says it has provided a EUR 100 million, 5-year term facility to Mota-Engil Africa (MEA), the regional arm of the global construction giant, Mota -Engil Group.

A Nigerian lawmaker in the ECOWAS Parliament, Zainab Gimba, has raised alarm over the surge terrorism and violent extremism across Nigeria, West Africa, and the Sahel.

President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria and Chairman of the Authority and Heads of States and Governments of ECOWAS, has reaffirmed the commitment of Nigeria to the activities and aspirations of the regional body, ECOWAS.

Ecobank, the leading private pan-African financial services Group which has unrivalled African expertise, is delighted to have been named Best Bank in Africa 2025 in Global Finance’s World’s Best Banks 2025 Awards.