The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Botchwey, has concluded three days of meetings in Tonga with leaders of the Pacific Islands. Ms Botchwey, who is a candidate for the position of Commonwealth Secretary General, also addressed a plenary session of the region’s leaders. She shared her vision for “a new Commonwealth that […]
China has vowed to beef up its vast Belt and Road global infrastructure initiative, promising “high-quality cooperation” ahead of a summit with African leaders in Beijing starting Wednesday. Africa is already a key Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) region, with Chinese companies signing contracts there worth more than $700 billion between 2013 and 2023, according […]
African leaders descend on China’s capital this week, seeking funds for big-ticket infrastructure projects as they eye mounting great power competition over resources and influence on the continent. China has expanded ties with African nations in the past decade, furnishing them with billions in loans that have helped build infrastructure but also sometimes stoked controversy […]
The European Union (EU) has launched a €10 million loan facility to assist smallholder farmers in the five regions of the north. Known as Agriculture Financing Initiative (AgirFI) Country Window, the fund, which will run for the next 10 years, will focus mainly on farmers in the mango, rice, groundnuts, sorghum, soya bean, cashew and […]
ECOWAS Resident and Permanent Representatives are convening in Côte d’Ivoire for a four-day meeting. The aim of this meeting is to take stock of the achievements and programmes implemented by the institution across the Member States, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of ECOWAS. During the 4-day meeting, issues relating to the future of […]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez ended his three-day tour of West African nations aimed at boosting cooperation in controlling irregular migration from the region to Spain’s Canary Islands, with a meeting with Senegal’s president in Dakar. Following the talks between Sánchez and President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the pair held a joint press conference where the […]
As the West clamps down on imports of green technology products from China, the world’s biggest manufacturer is looking for new markets, and that is a topic analysts say will dominate the agenda next month at a Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, or FOCAC, in Beijing. The high-level meeting, held every three years, will be the […]
Nigeria has received its first shipment of mpox vaccines, donated by the United States, to combat the ongoing outbreak of the disease. This comes amid a sharp rise in cases across Africa with the Democratic Republic of Congo and East African nations reporting the majority of infections. The first batch of 10,000 Jynneos vaccine doses […]
The U.S. government says it is set to expand the Lobito Corridor – a railway project that runs from Angola to Zambia through the Democratic Republic of the Congo – all the way to the Indian Ocean through Tanzania. The railway would connect African countries to global markets and enhance regional trade and economic growth, […]
Kamala Harris vowed a tougher approach to migration along the U.S. southern border and said she would not withhold weapons to Israel, in her first interview with a major news organization since becoming the Democratic nominee for president. In the interview with CNN anchor Dana Bash, Harris sought to show she is in command of […]
