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Africa Needs Investments in Sustainable Industrialization: The Unique Role of Afreximbank
At the 12th Extraordinary Summit on Industrialization and Economic Diversification and the Extraordinary Session held in Niamey late November, the African Export-Import Bank offered...
New mindsets needed to restore US-Africa relationship
Both US and African leaders need to adopt radically new mindsets towards each other if the summit beginning in Washington D.C. on 13 December...
Industrializing Africa: Renewed commitment towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization and Economic Diversification
Under the auspices of the African Union, from November 20 to 25, government representatives and corporate industrialists as well as agricultural experts plan to...
World Bank Announces New Blue Economy Financing Program for African Countries
World Bank announced a new Blue Economy program that will catalyze financing and provide an operational response to development challenges in coastal-marine areas of...
Invest more in Africa’s Sahel, or risk decades of armed conflict and displacement
Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement, exacerbated by rising temperatures, scarcity...
Gates Foundation Pledges $7B for Healthcare, Women and Agriculture in Africa
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has made resonating announcement that the foundation will spend $7 billion, over the next four years, to improve...
African Union Asks for Permanent Seat at the G20
Leaders from the world's top economies gathered mid-November on the Indonesian resort island of Bali for a G20 summit planned to review economic performance,...
We will win again: African activists promise resistance at home to oil-and-gas touting leaders
Climate activists from across sub-Saharan Africa gathered this morning in response to the dash for fossil fuels by African leaders at COP27.
African leaders have...
Kazakhstan’s Courtship of Africa Within the Context of Emerging Multipolar Order
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, has been exploring and developing multifaceted relations with Africa. As an independent republic since the collapse of the Soviet-era...
Can Cultural Safari Raise Russia’s Image Across Africa
After several years of heightened criticisms of falling cultural diplomacy, Russia has begun filling the huge pitfalls and cracks. In the context of the...