Category: International Business & Finance
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🇳🇬 Flutterwave CEO Joins Global Technology Advisory Board Backed by Silicon Valley Leaders
Flutterwave founder and CEO Olugbenga “GB” Agboola has joined the Founders Council of the Silicon Valley & The World Advisory Board, a global technology initiative co-chaired by leaders including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and AMD’s Lisa Su. The appointment gives Africa a prominent voice in discussions surrounding artificial intelligence, technology…
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🇨🇲 Cameroon’s Kribi Port Invests CFA21.5 Billion to Increase Container Terminal Capacity by 30%
Cameroon’s Kribi Container Terminal has begun a reported CFA21.5 billion expansion that will add eight hectares and increase container-handling capacity by approximately 30%, with completion targeted for the fourth quarter of 2027. The investment is designed to support rising trade volumes and potential cargo generated by a planned industrial zone near the deepwater port.
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🇺🇬 How to Own a Gold Mine in Uganda: A Practical Guide for African Investors
Uganda is attracting growing interest from African and international mining investors. Here is a practical guide to the legal route for establishing, acquiring or investing in a gold-mining operation in Uganda.
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🇬🇭 Ghana’s Gold Rush: Who Pays the Price for Mineral Wealth?
Ghana’s Birim Valley sits at the intersection of mineral wealth, livelihoods and environmental pressure. From diamonds to gold, informal and illegal mining — widely known as galamsey — provides income for communities while raising serious concerns about land degradation, water pollution and mineral smuggling. Ghana now faces the challenge of building a formal, traceable and…
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🍁 Mountain Province Gives Up 49% Gahcho Kué Stake as Diamond-Market Pressure Deepens
Mountain Province Diamonds is transferring its 49% stake in Canada’s Gahcho Kué diamond mine to De Beers as part of a restructuring aimed at eliminating mine-related liabilities, stabilizing its finances and securing new funding amid prolonged weakness in natural-diamond prices.
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🇬🇭 🇷🇺 Ghana and Russia Look to Expand Trade, Energy, Technology and Education Cooperation
Ghana and Russia are seeking to expand bilateral cooperation beyond traditional diplomacy, with trade, investment, nuclear energy, agriculture, mining, education and digital technology emerging as key areas for deeper engagement.
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Rewrites the Classroom: A New Curriculum for History, Culture and National Identity
Burkina Faso is undertaking a sweeping transformation of its education system, revising curricula and history teaching while expanding national-language instruction, endogenous knowledge, civic education, vocational training and locally produced textbooks. The reform could reach more than 2 million learners through the 2026–2029 REPAIR program, while a growing domestic printing sector aims to give Burkina Faso…
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🇬🇭 Africa’s Organised Crime Index 2025: 23 Countries Face High Criminality and Weak Resilience
The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index finds that organised crime has expanded across the continent since 2019 while resilience has weakened. Twenty-three African countries face the combination of high criminality and low resilience, with financial crime, trafficking, resource crime, counterfeit goods and arms trafficking among the continent’s most pervasive criminal markets.
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🇮🇳 India-Meta Showdown: Parliament Demands Zuckerberg Apology After Modi Video Removed
A temporary removal of a Narendra Modi video from Facebook has triggered a confrontation between India’s parliamentary technology committee and Meta, with lawmakers demanding a personal apology from Mark Zuckerberg and warning that Meta could face the loss of safe-harbour protection.
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🇺🇸 T.I. Invests in Black-Owned AI Content Company Pocstock
Rapper and entrepreneur T.I. has invested in Pocstock, a Black-owned content and data licensing company working to expand culturally representative AI datasets while giving creators greater control over how their work is licensed, used and monetized.