Category: Pan African Business
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🇬🇭 🇷🇺 Ghana and Russia: Could a Nuclear Power Partnership Transform Ghana’s Industrial Future?
Ghana has opened discussions with Russia’s Rosatom over the country’s first nuclear power station, as President John Dramani Mahama seeks reliable electricity to support industrialisation and domestic mineral processing. With Russia simultaneously expanding its role in Ghana’s bauxite industry, the emerging partnership could reshape Ghana’s energy and economic future—but it also raises difficult questions about…
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Deepens Russia Partnership as Ibrahim Traoré Pushes for Strategic Sovereignty
Burkina Faso is deepening its strategic partnership with Russia under Ibrahim Traoré, expanding cooperation beyond security into food security, healthcare, education and potential civil nuclear development as Ouagadougou pursues a broader vision of national sovereignty and self-reliance.
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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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🇺🇸 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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🇿🇦 South Africa Records 43 Suspected Political Killings Ahead of Local Elections
South Africa has recorded 45 politically linked attacks and at least 43 deaths through September 2026, according to GI-TOC data reported by Africanews, as the country approaches its November 4 local government elections.
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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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🇬🇭 Meet Nii Amartei Amarteifio: The Ghanaian Engineer Building the Future One Machine at a Time
Accra, Ghana — Across Africa, a new generation of engineers, designers and inventors is challenging the idea that advanced technology must always be imported. Among them is Ghanaian engineer and innovator Nii Amartei Amarteifio, whose unconventional approach to engineering is turning ambitious ideas into physical machines. Amarteifio has attracted attention for developing experimental vehicles and…
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🐻From LinkedIn to the AI Economy: Why Its Founders Sold—and What They Saw Coming for the Future of Work
By Pan African News When LinkedIn was launched in 2003, the idea of building a global digital network around a person’s professional identity was still largely untested. The internet had social networks, job boards and corporate websites, but there was no dominant platform designed to connect a person’s identity, skills, career history, professional relationships and…
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🇬🇭 2026 Africa Basketball Festival: Basketball, Music & Fashion Unite in Ghana
The countdown is officially on for the 2026 Africa Basketball Festival (ABF 2026), a celebration bringing together the energy of basketball, African music, fashion and youth culture for five unforgettable days in Accra. Taking place December 9–13, 2026, the festival will be hosted at the University of Ghana Basketball Court, with activities beginning at 3:00…
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🇿🇲 Zambian Women in Mining Push for Fairer Markets and Greater Economic Power
LUSAKA, Zambia — Women in Zambia’s extractive sector are increasingly demonstrating how collective action, technical knowledge and access to markets can transform small-scale mining enterprises and strengthen communities. Among those leading this movement is Aggie, a representative of the Massa Women in Mining Industrial Minerals Cooperative, a women-led enterprise working in Zambia’s mineral sector. Her…