The AfDB Set to Cut Funding to Focus on Transport and Water
This decision is aimed at prioritizing areas that have the highest potential to boost economic productivity. The upcoming shift, scheduled from this year until 2028, will impact energy projects, as they currently rank third in beneficiaries of the pan-African lender’s portfolio for infrastructure funding in Kenya. AfDB says the two sectors will greatly boost Kenya’s […]
Nigeria’s Dangote Oil Refinery has Begun Producing Diesel and Aviation Fuel
The refinery, Africa’s largest, was built on a peninsula on the outskirts of the commercial capital Lagos at a cost of $20 billion by the continent’s richest man Aliko Dangote. The plant received 1 million barrels of Nigeria’s Agbami crude on Monday, taking the total volume received since December to 6 million barrels. Nigeria’s state-owned […]
“A Day on which We Took another Leap towards a Modern Senegal,” Macky Sall
After a four-year wait, Dakar residents will soon move around their city on board these electric buses. The vehicles are part of the new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) fleet which was inaugurated on Sunday by the President of Senegal. The 120 e-buses will be powered by solar energy. The BRT will connect 14 communes of […]
Expectation that the Largest Economies in Africa Will Slow Down the Rest of the Region
The World Bank released its report on global economic prospects this week. It said that Niger, Senegal, and Rwanda will be among the world’s fastest-growing economies in 2024. The oil sector is boosting Niger’s growth, which is expected to reach 12.5% this year. This will make it the second-fastest growing economy in the world, after […]
Meet the First All-women Anti-poaching Unit in Zambia
Protecting threatened species in the Lower Zambezi national park was traditionally a man’s role. Now the country’s first all-female conservation squad is bringing a new perspective to the fight. It was the stark gender imbalance in wildlife conservation that prompted Conservation Lower Zambezi (CLZ) to form Kufadza in 2021. The NGO supports the Department of […]
