Category: Culture & Trade
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🇲🇱 Mali Signs 30 Billion CFA Franc KAMAZ Deal as Bamako Pursues Local Industrial Capacity
Mali has signed a transport and logistics agreement worth more than 30 billion CFA francs with Russian truckmaker KAMAZ. Beyond vehicle procurement, the partnership includes a maintenance center in Bamako-Sénou, spare-parts supply, technology transfer and training for Malian technicians, with longer-term plans for KAMAZ assembly capabilities in Mali.
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🇱🇷 Liberia Moves Toward a National Digital Land System
Liberia is building a national Land Information System designed to modernize cadastral records, geospatial data, land registration and property management. A three-year partnership with South Korean firms ALLFORLAND and LTMETRIC could reshape how Liberia maps, records and manages land.
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🇬🇭 B2B Trade Could Become Africa’s Next Stablecoin Frontier
Stablecoins could become a major settlement tool for African businesses, with B2B trade potentially overtaking remittances as a key driver of adoption. GSN chief Ryan Kirkley says FX liquidity, correspondent banking and regulation will determine whether digital dollars can deliver real savings.
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🇺🇸 603 Stolen Vehicles, $36 Million: How a North American Car-Theft Network Reached West Africa
A map of documented U.S. source locations linked to recent vehicle-theft investigations shows how stolen cars can move from communities across New Jersey, New York and the Washington, D.C. region toward shipping hubs and overseas markets in West Africa. The map highlights confirmed locations from individual investigations—not the origin of all 603 vehicles seized at…
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🇬🇭 The Burial of Kojo: Gold, Betrayal and the Ghosts Beneath Ghana
Film: The Burial of KojoYear: 2018Country: GhanaDirector: Blitz BazawuleGenre: Drama / Magical RealismLanguage: English and AkanReview: Panafrican.email There are films that tell a story, and then there are films that create a world. The Burial of Kojo belongs to the second category. Blitz Bazawule’s 2018 Ghanaian film is an intimate story about family, betrayal, memory…
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🌍 Red, Black and Green Over America: U.S. Cities That Have Raised the Pan-African Flag
Across the United States, cities and public institutions have raised the Pan-African flag to recognize Black history, African heritage, culture, and the African diaspora. From Tracy and Long Beach to Richmond, Hayward, San José, Chula Vista, and Ferndale, these ceremonies have placed the red, black, and green flag in American civic spaces.
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🇪🇬CAMRED III Brings Africa’s Mining, Investment and Technology Leaders to Cairo
CAMRED III opens in Cairo October 5–7, bringing African mining leaders, investors, government institutions, technology providers and mineral-sector organizations together around critical minerals, smart mining, beneficiation, investment and African value chains.
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🇬🇭 Ghana Is Open for Business: Mahama Takes Investment Message to Nasdaq
The core event details are confirmed by Nasdaq, Ghana’s Information Services Department, and the Ghana News Agency. Nasdaq lists the closing-bell ceremony for September 23, 2026, and explicitly describes it as highlighting Ghana’s openness to business. President John Dramani Mahama has used a high-profile Nasdaq closing-bell ceremony in New York to declare that Ghana is…
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s Ports Under Pressure as Drug Trafficking Networks Target West African Trade Routes
Ghana’s ports are facing renewed scrutiny over their role in international narcotics trafficking following a series of high-profile drug seizures, highlighting the growing challenge of protecting West Africa’s commercial gateways from transnational criminal networks. As Ghana expands its role as a major maritime and logistics hub, the country’s ports connect West Africa to shipping routes…