Shelter Afrique is keen on onboarding the remaining 10 African countries that are not yet its members, the Pan–African housing development financier has said. This was disclosed during a High-Level Conference on Affordable Housing Finance for Low-Income Groups held recently in Tunis, Tunisia. The conference was organised by Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) and the Central Bank...
African leaders have pledged to identify, define and develop local solutions to challenges facing local agricultural production to build effective and sustainable food systems for the people of Africa, and deliver zero hunger by 2030. The leaders, who included sitting and former Heads of State and Governments as well as heads...
The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, Sugandh Rajaram, has urged Indian businesses to seize the opportunity the Ghanaian market offers in order to position themselves for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The decision to choose Ghana as host of the AfCFTA secretariat increased the nation’s chances for its...
Africa is blessed with abundant solar power due to the scorching sun. Solar power should be the alternative energy source to power vehicles, generating plants, and small-scale and commercial farming. It could also be used for powering industries. For instance, during power outages, most heavy industries like Valco in Ghana...
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, lambasting the United States and its Western and European allies, wholeheartedly predicted the end of the unipolar system, and bristled at the idea of creating a new global order that might change living standards of impoverished millions around the world. But Russia largely lacks far behind...
In this Interview, Charlotte Bwana, Head of Business Development and Media Partnerships, for Audiomack Africa highlighted the company’s efforts towards developing local talents, its investment activities in Africa, as well as the company’s plans for the region. Tell us about Audiomack and its purpose. Audiomack is a free music streaming...
The Organization of African Unity, now African Union (AU), under Kwame Nkrumah’s leadership conceived an African Common Market programme. Nkrumah envisioned it to be an economic community of African countries pulling their production and trade to a common advantage. That, to Nkrumah, was the epitome of true independence. The idea...