OMV and Libya’s NOC have confirmed the Essar field is commercially viable, with up to 45 million barrels of recoverable oil and expected output of about 6,000 barrels per day. Existing infrastructure ...

Zonda Tec Ghana’s new assembly plant will be able to produce 12,000 vehicles a year, including SUVs, pickups, electric vehicles, trucks and trailers. Ghana wants to move beyond assembling imported ...

Okoumé Capital is investing CFAF 500 million ($875,000) in Centre Diagnostic de Libreville through convertible bonds. The funding will support the opening of the Village Santé d’Akanda in December and ...

EU chicken exports are expected to fall in 2027 as Brazilian suppliers look for more outlets after losing access to the European market. African markets such as Ghana, Guinea, Congo, the DRC and ...

Chad still needs about 8,000 kilometers of fiber-optic infrastructure to fully connect its territory. Six provinces remain outside the national fiber network despite several expansion projects. Mobile ...

Côte d’Ivoire is expanding electronic signatures across local governments as part of its goal of moving toward a paperless administration by 2030. The Sygidan-Cti system is intended to digitize and ...

Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Alzouma replaces Amadou Haoua as Niger’s energy minister. Niger aims to raise national electricity access from 21.9% to 60% by 2030. The government plans to increase power ...

Ghana Gas plans to make a final investment decision in early 2027 on a $500 million pipeline linking western gas processing facilities to industrial users in the southeast. The project is intended to ...

Malawi has launched the Nzika Digital ID Wallet, offering digital national ID, birth, marriage and death certificates. The platform builds on a national ID system already used for e-KYC, financial ...

Uganda will launch a $328 million refugee-support program in October, targeting 3 million refugees and people in host communities across 14 districts. The five-year program will fund social and ...

Guinea has signed a €60.6 million ($69.5 million) loan from the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to add 11 MW to the Tinkisso power system through the Tinkisso II hydropower plant.

Konoom Cameroon has secured a payment institution license, clearing the way for the launch of its mobile money service and distributor network. The company will enter a market dominated by Orange ...