Category: Newsline
Angola Forecasts 3.6% GDP Growth Over Next 5 Years
Angola’s Minister of Economy and Planning, H.E. Mário Caetano João, has indicated that the southern African country is forecasting economic growth of 3% in 2023, with an increase to an average of over 3.6% between 2023 and 2027. Announced on 26 April, the Minister highlighted that economic growth in Angola will be driven primarily by…
APO Group’s Africa Celebrations Campaign for Mercy Ships Wins Multiple 2023 SABRE Awards Africa
APO Group, the leading pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, is excited to announce that its Mercy Ships Africa Celebrations campaign has won the 2023 PRovoke Africa SABRE Awards for Best Campaign in West Africa and Best Campaign for Not-for-Profit/Charities. The SABRE Awards are the most prestigious and important awards in the public…
African Export-Import Bank signs US$3 Billion Country Programme with Kenya
African Export-Import Bank has signed a US$3 Billion Country Programme with the Government of Kenya. The official signing ceremony was witnessed by President William Ruto at State House Nairobi. The memorandum was signed by Kenya’s Honourable Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of National Treasury and Economic Planning, Professor Njuguna Ndungu, and the President and Chairman…
IsDB Group Private Sector Institutions to Host Private Sector Forum
The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group’s (https://www.IsDB.org/) private sector institutions, including the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), are proud to announce the upcoming “Private Sector Forum,” which will take place…
AFDB’s Africa Climate Change Fund dialogues with Global Affairs Canada delegation
The Director of the African Development Bank’s Climate Change and Green Growth Department, Prof. Anthony Nyong recently received a delegation from Global Affairs Canada’s Cooperation for Pan-African and Regional Development Program in Cote D’Ivoire. The delegation, led by Mrs. Lara Bremner, Head of the Program, was in Abidjan as part of its engagement with key…
NCC Disowns Fake LinkedIn Account attributed to Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disowned a fake LinkedIn account wrongly attributed to NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Prof Umar Garba Danbatta. A statement by Director, Public Affairs at NCC, Reuben Muoka, declared that the said LinkedIn account is fake and has no affiliation with the NCC or Prof. Danbatta. “We…
Top 5 Service Contracts by Value Signed in Angola in 2022/23
While Angola already represents one of the largest oil producers in Africa, the country is targeting heightened exploration and production across both mature and emerging basins in a bid to become a regional energy hub. With an ambitious national oil company (NOC) and a strong slate of regional and international oil companies active in the…
Gabon, Sierra Leone Accede to Establishment Agreement of Afreximbank’s Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA)
The Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), the development impact-focused subsidiary of African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced the accession of the Gabonese Republic and the Republic of Sierra Leone to the Fund through their recent respective signing of the FEDA Establishment Agreement. FEDA described the accession by the two countries as a significant…
Green Energy Africa Summit announces Advisory Committee
Green Energy Africa Summit has today announced its Advisory Committee for the summit, to be held in the heart of South Africa’s Cape Town on 10-11 October. Held under the theme, “Unlocking Africa’s Just Energy Potential”, the Green Energy Africa Summit (GEA) will provide unrivalled opportunities throughout its two-day programme for stakeholders across the energy…
AfricanAfreximbank wins 7 awards at the Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa Awards 2023
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced its receipt of seven awards at the Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa Awards 2023 across the transactional and house categories. Afreximbank’s success at this year’s awards reflects the Bank’s increasingly well-established leadership position in the loan and debt capital markets on the continent across the main industry…