Africa

BERLIN, Nov 20 (Reuters) – Germany will invest 4 billion euros in green energy projects in Africa until 2030, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday, noting these could in turn…

Dar es Salaam. The Zanzibar government has registered foreign direct investments worth $4.5 billion in the three years of President Hussein Ali Mwinyi’s administration. The director of free economic zones at…

More than 1000 investors, business delegates and entrepreneurs will attend the inaugural Norrsken Africa Week in Kigali on November 8 and 9, Norrsken East Africa, Africa’s biggest hub for technology…

Heads of State in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have decided to speed up the construction of the highway between Abidjan and Lagos, a project for which…

Managing Director, Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria (InfraCorp), Dr. Lazarus Angbazo, has called for global investors in Nigeria’s critical and strategic sectors of the economy, including roads, energy, aviation, rails and…

FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), the investing arm of FSD Africa, said $19.5 million investment has been committed to supporting climate adaptation and climate-aligned infrastructure projects in Africa to promote the…

In some respects, things have never been better when it comes to private equity in Africa. Despite global economic headwinds, for example, some $7.6bn was invested across 626 deals in 2022 (versus $7.4bn…

Despite a shared currency and regional stock market available to eight different countries, the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU – also referred to as UEMOA from the acronym…

Prominent African and global institutional investors have signed on to the new $500 million Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund – a move described as an unprecedented milestone for Africa. The fund…

Nigeria’s oil and gas sector is making humble progress, and indeed fast catching up with the global relevance of the all-important industry.  This singular fact, the recent birth of the…