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Liberia Launches 2026 Offshore Licensing Round, Offering 15 Blocks to Investors

The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority is inviting qualified companies to negotiate offshore exploration opportunities, with submissions closing April 15, 2027...

Ghana Targets End to Liquid Fuel Purchases for Power as Gas Supply Expands

Sonangol Cites Commitment to Privatization as Company Charts Next Growth Phase

Venezuela Takes Its Africa Energy Partnership to Cape Town for African Energy Week (AEW) 2026

Africa’s Dealmakers Convene as 10,000 Attendees Kick Off African Energy Week (AEW) 2026 in Cape Town

African leaders call for capital mobilisation and regional integration to drive growth at inaugural Alamein Africa Forum in Egypt

Islamic Development Bank Institute and Universal Postal Union Launch ‘Prosper MSMEs’ to Expand Islamic Digital Financial Services through Postal Networks

Verdant Capital Hybrid Fund (VCHF) publishes inaugural Annual Impact Report: investees estimated to have created over 316,000 jobs

CRDB Bank launched FMO and Shelter Afrique partnerships, and renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with Afreximbank

Huawei Commits to Advancing an Intelligent, Green Europe with Customers and Partners

International Oil Companies (IOCs) Call for Regulatory Interventions to Streamline Upstream Investment in South Africa

Guinea Targets Five Alumina Refineries by 2030 as African Mining Nations Push Local Processing at African Mining Week (AMW)

Uganda Reaffirms First Oil Timeline, Eyes Refinery Completion by 2030

African Mining Week (AMW) 2026 Opens with Call for African Value Addition and United States (U.S.) Critical Mineral Partnership

Ethiopia Joins Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) Network as National Bank of Ethiopia and PAPSS Announce the 2nd Edition of COWRY in Addis Ababa

dLocal and Western Union expand their partnership to cover remittance payouts in Africa

World’s biggest brands increasingly spend less of their sales revenue on advertising – except consumer goods giants

Senegal Opens 104 Blocks to Investors, Targets New Upstream Contracts

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Liberia Launches 2026 Offshore Licensing Round, Offering 15 Blocks to Investors

Ghana Targets End to Liquid Fuel Purchases for Power as Gas Supply Expands

Sonangol Cites Commitment to Privatization as Company Charts Next Growth Phase

Venezuela Takes Its Africa Energy Partnership to Cape Town for African Energy Week (AEW) 2026

Africa’s Dealmakers Convene as 10,000 Attendees Kick Off African Energy Week (AEW) 2026 in Cape Town

African leaders call for capital mobilisation and regional integration to drive growth at inaugural Alamein Africa Forum in Egypt

Islamic Development Bank Institute and Universal Postal Union Launch ‘Prosper MSMEs’ to Expand Islamic Digital Financial Services through Postal Networks

Verdant Capital Hybrid Fund (VCHF) publishes inaugural Annual Impact Report: investees estimated to have created over 316,000 jobs

CRDB Bank launched FMO and Shelter Afrique partnerships, and renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with Afreximbank

Huawei Commits to Advancing an Intelligent, Green Europe with Customers and Partners

International Oil Companies (IOCs) Call for Regulatory Interventions to Streamline Upstream Investment in South Africa

Guinea Targets Five Alumina Refineries by 2030 as African Mining Nations Push Local Processing at African Mining Week (AMW)

Uganda Reaffirms First Oil Timeline, Eyes Refinery Completion by 2030

African Mining Week (AMW) 2026 Opens with Call for African Value Addition and United States (U.S.) Critical Mineral Partnership

Ethiopia Joins Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) Network as National Bank of Ethiopia and PAPSS Announce the 2nd Edition of COWRY in Addis Ababa

dLocal and Western Union expand their partnership to cover remittance payouts in Africa

World’s biggest brands increasingly spend less of their sales revenue on advertising – except consumer goods giants

Senegal Opens 104 Blocks to Investors, Targets New Upstream Contracts

CRDB Bank launched FMO and Shelter Afrique partnerships, and renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with Afreximbank

Huawei Commits to Advancing an Intelligent, Green Europe with Customers and Partners

International Oil Companies (IOCs) Call for Regulatory Interventions to Streamline Upstream Investment in South Africa

Guinea Targets Five Alumina Refineries by 2030 as African Mining Nations Push Local Processing at African Mining Week (AMW)

Uganda Reaffirms First Oil Timeline, Eyes Refinery Completion by 2030

African Mining Week (AMW) 2026 Opens with Call for African Value Addition and United States (U.S.) Critical Mineral Partnership

Guinea Targets Five Alumina Refineries by 2030 as African Mining Nations Push Local Processing at African Mining Week (AMW)

Uganda Reaffirms First Oil Timeline, Eyes Refinery Completion by 2030

African Mining Week (AMW) 2026 Opens with Call for African Value Addition and United States (U.S.) Critical Mineral Partnership

Senegal Opens 104 Blocks to Investors, Targets New Upstream Contracts

Africa shifts from carbon market potential to delivery as Carbon Markets Africa Summit (CMAS) 2026 opens in Kigali

Ivory Coast Details Investment Opportunities, Seeks Partners for $10B Energy Expansion

OPPO Find X10 Pro Max to Debut Globally with MediaTek’s 2nm Flagship Dimensity 9600 Pro

Liquid C2 partners with KnowBe4 to bring workforce risk management to African businesses

OPPO Partners with Manus to Bring Agentic AI Experiences to Smartphones

OPPO Unveils ColorOS 17 Globally: Silky Smooth. Flow with AI

Huawei Highlights Continuous Innovation, Securing Competitive Edge Through Technological Breakthroughs

Cracking the Interoperability Code of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)’s Digital Trade Era (By Ludovic Thanay)

Ethiopia Joins Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) Network as National Bank of Ethiopia and PAPSS Announce the 2nd Edition of COWRY in Addis Ababa

dLocal and Western Union expand their partnership to cover remittance payouts in Africa

World’s biggest brands increasingly spend less of their sales revenue on advertising – except consumer goods giants

Senegal Opens 104 Blocks to Investors, Targets New Upstream Contracts

Africa shifts from carbon market potential to delivery as Carbon Markets Africa Summit (CMAS) 2026 opens in Kigali

Ivory Coast Details Investment Opportunities, Seeks Partners for $10B Energy Expansion

Africa Finance Corporation Appoints Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Yemi Cardoso as Chairman of the Board

Africa Energy Bank to Begin Financing Gas Projects in Early 2027, African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) Says

Nigeria Mining Week puts investment, bankable projects and local value creation in focus

Afreximbank to convene sixth African Sub-Sovereign Governments Network (AfSNET) Investment Conference in Nigeria to advance sub-sovereign funding and trade

CRDB Bank launched FMO and Shelter Afrique partnerships, and renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with Afreximbank

Huawei Commits to Advancing an Intelligent, Green Europe with Customers and Partners

Liberia Launches 2026 Offshore Licensing Round, Offering 15 Blocks to Investors

International Oil Companies (IOCs) Call for Regulatory Interventions to Streamline Upstream Investment in South Africa

Guinea Targets Five Alumina Refineries by 2030 as African Mining Nations Push Local Processing at African Mining Week (AMW)

Uganda Reaffirms First Oil Timeline, Eyes Refinery Completion by 2030

African Mining Week (AMW) 2026 Opens with Call for African Value Addition and United States (U.S.) Critical Mineral Partnership

Ethiopia Joins Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) Network as National Bank of Ethiopia and PAPSS Announce the 2nd Edition of COWRY in Addis Ababa

dLocal and Western Union expand their partnership to cover remittance payouts in Africa

World’s biggest brands increasingly spend less of their sales revenue on advertising – except consumer goods giants

Radisson Hotel Group and Accenture Redefine Travel Discovery on ChatGPT

Radisson Blu Hotel & Convention Centre, Kigali celebrates ten years of shaping Kigali

Novum Studio Secures New Funding to Launch Ahoy Project, an AI-Native Enterprise Transformation Platform, Building on Its 20-Million-User Gen Z App Frog

Radisson Hotel Group launches global long-stay proposition to accelerate growth in fast-growing extended-stay segment

A New Category Is Emerging in the Premium Residential Market — the “Presidence”

Thailand Secures $43.6bn 1H 2026 Investment Surge as Big Tech Accelerates Southeast Asia AI Infrastructure Push

Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) and Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College of Business & Entrepreneurship (MBSC) Celebrate Graduation of Strategic Business Leadership Program Participants

Native Acquires Frontline Research Group to Build the Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) Data Layer for Africa’s $1.7 Trillion Traditional Trade Market

Africa’s Mining Boom Has a New Financier: Domestic Capital

Global consumer agentic AI spending will soar to $3.35trn in 2030