The AfCFTA Secretariat has launched the North Africa Regional Cohort of the SME Booster Programme in Tunis, Tunisia, aimed at strengthening the capacity of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to participate more effectively in intra-African trade. The programme provides SMEs…
Cocoa prices have risen by 95.1% since the beginning of March 2026, as fears of reduced crop yields in the 2026/27 season have pushed prices higher. According to Fitch Solutions, higher cocoa prices will partly offset lower production volumes in…
Africa produces a significant range of agricultural products. The opportunity now is to ensure that more of what the continent produces is traded within Africa, strengthening regional value chains, attracting investment and expanding intra-African agricultural trade. The African Continental Free…
Chairman of Heirs Holdings, Tony Elumelu, has called for a fundamental shift in Africa’s development model from dependence on foreign aid to trade, investment, entrepreneurship and private sector-led growth. Elumelu made the call during a fireside chat on the sidelines…
Africa needs deeper capital markets, stronger financial institutions and better mechanisms for mobilizing its own resources if it is to finance development at the scale required, experts said at the 2nd Annual Conference on Credit Ratings, which concluded in Mauritius…
By Eugene Davis The Minority Caucus has questioned why 87 of the 102 persons submitted by the National Sports Authority (NSA) on June 8 for World Cup visa facilitation could not be verified as NSA personnel, and why they were…
Ghanaian businesses are missing out on an expanding pool of long-term investment capital because too few are prepared to meet the governance, reporting and structural requirements of public markets, according to PwC Ghana. Daniel Desmond Koomson, Senior Manager in Deals…
IFC has announced two partnerships with Absa Bank Ghana LTD and Complete Farmer to expand access to finance across Ghana’s agricultural sector and support smallholder farmers through financing and technology. IFC’s partnership with Absa Bank Ghana will expand financing for…
London-listed Hamak Strategy – a company pursuing a dual strategy of gold exploration in West Africa and disciplined Bitcoin treasury management – has announced that, following the recent price appreciation of Bitcoin (BTC), it has completed the sale of eight…
President John Dramani Mahama, speaking at a presidential roundtable organised by the Open Society Foundation in New York on Monday, argued that the international development landscape is evolving rapidly, with the global order facing severe disruption as countries in the…