UNOWAS and UN Women used the Abidjan meetings to link peace and security more directly to youth employment and women’s economic empowerment. The Abidjan Call urges more investment in jobs, vocational ...

Benin will now pay official travel expenses for domestic trips electronically across the public administration under the second phase of SEMO. The next phase will add geolocation so authorities can ...

King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri head of government on September 29 and tasked her with forming Morocco’s next government. El Mansouri is the first woman to lead Morocco’s ...

The National Assembly cleared the 144-article anti-corruption bill for further examination on September 28 and sent it to the political, administrative and legal committee. The bill would broaden the ...

An average 83% of mobile internet users in the 14 countries surveyed go online every day, but many use the internet for only one or two activities. Social media and messaging dominate mobile internet ...

Cameroon is carrying out a new survey of public funds held in commercial banks, four years after a first exercise identified nearly CFAF 450 billion in deposits. The survey comes after the December 31 ...

Guinea’s central bank is working with the IFC to revise the country’s 2012 leasing law and make the financing tool more accessible to businesses, especially SMEs. The leasing market remains very ...

Albayrak opened talks with Guinea on September 29 over a new agricultural mechanization project that would begin with a pilot phase, training and after-sales support. The Turkish group is also ...

The initiative will help governments prepare power-grid projects and connect them with financing and implementation support. Africa needs annual grid investment to rise from about $10 billion to ...

Gambia signed $14.2 million in contracts to connect 241 communities in two regions to the national grid. Grid connections already account for more than 99% of the country’s electricity connections.

The World Bank said it is interested in providing initial financing to support Egypt’s mining sector, although it has not disclosed the amount, structure or targeted projects. Egypt wants to raise ...

Zambia is shifting its economic policy from macroeconomic stabilisation and debt restructuring toward faster production, exports and investment growth. The government targets average economic growth ...