Africa Finance Corporation Partners With The Solid Minerals Development Fund On Catalyzing Private Sector-Led Mining Projects In Nigeria
Challenges around development and finance mean that only a fraction of over US$700 billion of potential Nigerian mining projects receives the necessary funding, according to SMDF Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricAFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, and the Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF) are partnering to deploy project development funding and technical advisory to […]
Preparations For The Biggest African Mining Event In North America Underway During The Mining Indaba
African countries, mining projects, companies, products and services will be showcased at the biggest African mining event in North America during PDAC in Toronto on March 7th The Canada-Africa Chamber of Business (https://www.CanadaAfrica.ca) 24th Annual African Mining Breakfast & MineAfrica’s 21st Annual Investing in African Mining Seminar is in the spotlight in Cape Town this […]
Robust And Technical Dealmaking On The Horizon For African Energy Week (AEW) 2023 – Africa Energy Chamber’s (AEC) NJ Ayuk
By Boris Esono Nwenfor, Pan African Visions In a vote of thanks following the successful organization of the Invest in African Energy event on 26 January 2023 at the Waldorf Hotel in London, NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the Africa Energy Chamber, AEC, says more robust and technical dealmaking is expected at the 2023 edition […]
Liquid Intelligent Technologies And Nokia Partner To Drive Innovation And Connectivity In Africa
This announcement comes in light of the imminent launch of the new terrestrial data superhighway built by Liquid, connecting Kenya and South Africa Liquid Intelligent Technologies (www.Liquid.Tech), a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, today announced that it has partnered with Nokia. Through this partnership, Liquid deployed Nokia’s innovative transport network technology in […]
African Leaders Express their Condolences and Solidarity with Türkiye and Syria
They included the presidents of Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Burundi and Gambia. Also the AU chairperson Moussa Faki-Mahamat in a tweet welcomed the “global outpouring of support and solidarity”. Their condolences come as dozens of nations and organizations offered to help with rescue efforts in southern Turkey and northern Syria after Monday’s earthquakes […]
The Pontiff Tells Juba Leaders, “The Future Cannot Lie in Refugee Camps”
Pope Francis called for peace Over the weekend as he met a group of several hundred South Sudanese people internally displaced by war at an event in the country’s capital Juba. “I want to renew my forceful and heartfelt appeal to end all conflict and to resume the peace process in a serious way,” the […]
A Win for Accountability of Big Tech in Africa
A Kenyan court has ruled that a case brought against Facebook by a former content moderator can go ahead. Daniel Motaung, who was hired as a Facebook content moderator by the tech firm’s subcontractor Sama in 2019, filed a suit against the two companies last year, alleging that he had been exposed to graphic and […]
Ramaphosa Admits Loadshedding Hurts Mining
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the county’s electricity crisis has severely damaged its mining industry, a key pillar of the economy. Ramaphosa made the comment while addressing Investing in African Mining Indaba, the world’s largest mining investment conference. The Minerals Council South Africa, which represents mining companies, estimates that total mining volumes were down […]
Africa Remains One of the Most Exciting and Diverse Regions to Invest in Innovation Globally
Investment into the African tech startup ecosystem passed the US$3 billion mark for the first time in 2022, with the space withstanding global economic headwinds to post a record year. This is according to the eighth edition of the annual African Tech Startups Funding Report released by startup news and research portal Disrupt Africa, which […]
Trends, Issues and Prospects for the Africa–China Donkey Trade
Africa is home to the highest number of donkeys in the world: about two-thirds of the estimated global population of 53 million donkeys in 2020. Exact figures on how many hides are exported to China aren’t available due to a growing illicit trade, but there are indications. The scale of the donkey trade, both illicit […]
