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Equatorial Guinea Mandates CCTV + Jimmy Fallon Mocks Trump + Chief Of Army Staff Lagbaja Dies – Trending With Ojy Okpe
Arise News
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November 6, 2024
Donald Trump addressed supporters following battle ground projections claiming victory ahead of official results. Comedian, Jimmy Fallon presented a new AD showing an AI generated drug, mocking Trump’s premature victory claims, in a recent episode...
Nigeria, Angola, Ghana Fulfil Capital Commitments for Africa Energy Bank’s $5bn Launch
Arise News
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April 2, 2025
In a significant development for Africa’s energy sector, Nigeria, Angola and Ghana have fulfilled their capital commitments toward establishing the Africa Energy Bank (AEB), a critical financial institution aimed at bridging the funding gap in the...
Africa Energy Bank gains momentum with capital contributions
Insurance Biz South Africa
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02-04-25 / Kwanele Sibanda Africa Energy Bank gains momentum with capital contributions CAPE TOWN, South Africa - In a significant development for Africa's energy sector, Nigeria, Angola and Ghana have fulfilled their capital commitments toward...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, February 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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April 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Africa Energy Bank Gains Momentum with Capital Contributions from Nigeria, Angola and Ghana
Africa.com
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April 1, 2025
In a significant development for Africa’s energy sector, Nigeria, Angola and Ghana have fulfilled their capital commitments toward establishing the Africa Energy Bank (AEB). This milestone represents 44% of the minimum required funding from...
Equatorial Guinea To Install CCTV In State Offices Amid Misconduct Scandal
Naija News
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November 5, 2024
The initiative, disclosed via an X post on Tuesday, marks a significant push toward greater transparency and accountability within the country’s public sector. “We have taken this measure to ensure compliance with the law on public officials and...
IGAD rallies African unity at AU mid-year summit, champions Agenda 2063 vision
The Standard
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Workneh Gebeyehu (PhD) IGAD Executive Secretary. [Courtesy] The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is playing a central role in advancing Africa’s integration and development agenda as the continent prepares for the 7th African...
Economic cooperation, development focus of Egyptian FM talks with African counterparts in Addis Ababa
Egypt Today
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February 12, 2025
CAIRO – 12 February 2025: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Badr Abdelatty held Wednesday a series of meetings with counterparts in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of an African Union convention stressing the importance of coordination at...
Are anti-corruption measures a pipe dream for African countries?
IOL
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African Anti-Corruption Day is observed on 11 July annually to commemorate the adoption of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption in 2003. Corruption remains a major obstacle to economic development and continues to...
$5bn Africa Energy Bank Gains Momentum with Contributions from Nigeria, Angola, Ghana
This Day
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April 2, 2025
•Lokpobiri to IOCs: Nigeria has created right conditions, it’s time to invest •Insists on withdrawal of licences from unproductive oilfield owners Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Peter Uzoho in Lagos In a significant development for Africa’s energy...
Russian power creeps across West Africa with Equatorial Guinea mission
Polity
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Russia has deployed up to 200 military instructors to Equatorial Guinea in recent weeks to protect the presidency, sources told Reuters, showing Moscow is expanding its footprint in West Africa despite a recent defeat in Mali. The sources said the...
The PS said agriculture is a critical sector in transforming the economy and creating employment.
The Standard
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From 2nd left PS State Department for Agriculture Paul Rono, FINAS Chairman Ratemo Michieka and Financial Services Advisor, Presidential Economic Transformation secretariat Moses Banda launching the of "Financing Agri-food Systems Sustainably...
Africa Energy Bank: Bulwark against fossil fuel disinvestment
ESI Africa
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March 27, 2025
Three years after being incubated, the Africa Energy Bank (AEB), set up by the African Petroleum Producers’ Organization (APPO) and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), has been mooted to open its doors in Abuja, Nigeria, later this year with...
African countries seek to boost common market
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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March 24, 2025
Comprised of six states: Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Chad, the Central African Republic, and Equatorial Guinea, Cemac currently faces a high dependence on imports, with low diversification of exportable products and insufficient trade infrastructure,...
Cameroon and Gabon Grab 80% of New Bank Loans in CEMAC by September 2024
Business in Cameroon
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March 24, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Between July and September 2024, new loans granted by banks across the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) grew by 1.52% compared to the same period the previous year. These loans reached a total of...
The IMF is trying to kneecap American energy companies
The Washington Times
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March 26, 2025
OPINION: The International Monetary Fund is an agency of the United Nations that, in their own words, “works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity … by supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation…...
Africa’s CSOs demand action on reparations
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 10, 2025
Civil society leaders have called for action on reparations for Africa, urging justice, accountability, and compensation. This took place at the African Union’s Economic, Social, and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) Civil Society Forum, held in...
Oxfam report reveals four...
Capital Ethiopia
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July 13, 2025
A new report by Oxfam has laid bare the deepening inequality crisis in Africa, revealing that just four of the continent’s richest billionaires collectively hold $57.4 billion in wealth—surpassing the combined wealth of 750 million people, or half...
Ecobank wins 2024 Bank of the Year in Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Liberia and Togo
Technext
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December 5, 2024
EcoBank has been awarded the Bank of the Year in four African countries by the Banker’s Awards. This was disclosed by the pan-African bank in a statement seen by Technext. According to the statement, the bank’s affiliates in Cameroon, Equatorial...
African Energy Week 2025 to strengthen public-private partnerships in Africa’s energy market
Sierra Leone Telegraph
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March 25, 2025
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: This year’s African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, will debut the first-ever National Oil Company (NOC) and International Oil Company (IOC)...