New York, United States of America, May 25, 2018/ — Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock released US$30 million from the UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to urgently scale-up relief efforts in West Africa’s Sahel, where an acute drought, combined with exceptionally high food prices and worsening insecurity, has escalated humanitarian needs.
Dakar, Senegal, June 10, 2017//– The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) hosted senior civil servants from 20 African countries for a course on Industrial Policy in Africa aimed at strengthening their capacity in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating appropriate strategies to facilitate the structural transformation of the continent’s economies.
New York, USA, May 29, 2017//- An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) project shows that significant reserves of good quality water are available in Africa’s drought-prone Sahel region.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, the leading pan-African banking group and MasterCard, a global payments technology company have announced a partnership which will see UBA act as the issuer for MasterCard in 18 new markets in Africa.
An oil & gas advisory, E&P and trading firm that aligns its unique industry skillset and network has landed on the African continent.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of the Ecobank Group and leading pan-African full-service banking group, today announced the launch of a $110 million risk-sharing facility that will increase access to finance for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in fragile and conflict-affected states in West and […]
