Afro Asia News https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Verdant IMAP Expands East African Presence with New Nairobi Office and Appointment of Sajan Shah Home 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 ACG CEO Paulo J. 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