Liberia recommits to ECOWAS free trade barrier removal
-Commerce Minister Wilson Tarpeh at WAMZ Confab Abuja, Nigeria- Liberia’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Professor Wilson K. Tarpeh, has reiterated the country’s commitment to the...
Category : African News
Journalists: the bête noire-targets-of organized crime
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) held a press conference on Thursday in Paris to unveil a report entitled: “Journalists: the bête noire of organized crime” that shines a light...
AfDB urges power sector to capitalize on women’s capabilities
Women represent only 20 percent of employees in the African power sector and less than ten percent of engineers ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – The African...
7 years after Boko Haram attack, ‘UN House’ opens for business
-Diplomats in Abuja hail UN on return to ‘UN House’ Abuja-The Diplomatic Community in Abuja has congratulated the United Nations System in Nigeria for its...
AfDB launches US$500M landmark insurance credit deal in Africa
This transaction is expected to have an important demonstration effect to encourage similar institutions to invest more on the continent in the future LONDON, United...
In Senegal: Teen Girls Sexually Exploited, Harassed in Schools
-HRW calls for end to Culture of Silence; Act Against Abusive Teachers (Dakar, October 18, 2018) – Abusive teachers and other staff sexually exploit, harass,...
ECONEC advocating cost-effective but credible elections in West Africa
By Paul Ejime The ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) has called on electoral management bodies (EMBs) in the region to reappraise election funding towards...
More journalists killed in first 9 months of 2018 than in all 2017- RFS
More professional journalists were killed worldwide in connection with their work in the first nine months of 2018 than in all of 2017, according to...
World Bank: If countries act now, children born today could be healthier
-And wealthier, more productive BALI, Indonesia -A New World Bank Human Capital Index measures how much countries lose in economic productivity by under-investing in their...
IFC: US$6.2Bn new investment commitment for Sub-Saharan Africa
-Record Regional Engagement Helps Private Investment Drive Infrastructure, Jobs and Growth in Africa Nairobi, Kenya – IFC, a member of the World Bank...