Africa must strengthen its capacity to deliver the payment systems, efficient borders and infrastructure that businesses need to benefit from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Mr Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the AfCFTA Secretariat, told project professionals at Project Management Institute’s Global Summit Series in Cape Town.
African countries are being urged to strengthen parliamentary scrutiny of government borrowing before new debt is contracted, as the continent seeks to shift from managing debt crises to preventing unsustainable borrowing in the first place.
Governments, scientists, NGOs, conservationists, and financial institutions today signed the Nairobi Flyways Declaration, an unprecedented commitment to coordinated protection of migratory routes across borders, alongside more than $6 billion in conservation finance being mobilised by three multilateral banks since 2021.
Africa will need dedicated financing mechanisms to scale electric mobility (e-mobility) and build the charging and power infrastructure required to support it, experts have said.
Non-tariff barriers could undermine Africa’s efforts to create a single market and make it easier for businesses to trade across the continent, Minister for Trade, Agribusiness and Industry Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare has warned.
Ghana is set to welcome high-profile government leaders, policymakers, public-sector executives and institutional heads from across Africa as the 7th Africa Public Sector Conference (APSCA 2026) takes place from 14th–16th October 2026 at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City, Accra.
African countries should develop their own debt-management and development-financing institutions instead of relying on systems designed outside the continent, the head of the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) has said.
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