The leaders of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed Friday on a regional strategy to deal with global warming over the next 10 years.
Members of the regional organisation, in…
Heavy rains led to hundreds of deaths and widespread damage
Climate change amped up the rains that pounded southeastern Africa and killed hundreds of people during two powerful storms in early 2022…
African start-ups raise US$1.8bn in Q1
African start-ups set up a new record in the first quarter of the year (2022) by raising over US$1.8bn. This is two and half times what they managed to raise…
The Nissan facility positions the republic as an automobile hub in West Africa
Japanese automaker Nissan has begun assembling cars from a new site in Ghana, making it the centre of automobile…
We are extremely pleased to share outcomes from our High-Level Dialogue inon Leveraging the Potential of Green Bonds to Scale-Up Climate Action, where global leaders highlighted a number of concrete…
Their exit leaves a void in the retail market for other banks to fill
Africa’s banking industry is seeing the exit of major international banks. British bank Standard Chartered is the latest to…
The call comes in the wake of supply disruptions caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Millers in Kenya have warned that the country could run out of options if the wheat import ban from India…
The Japanese funded terminal will boost Kenyan port capacity and facilitate trade
The Kenyan Port Authority (KPA) says it will begin work on the extension of the Mombasa Container Terminal in April…
The three-way deal could potentially put 100m tonnes of iron ore on the market every year
A US$15bn deal has been reached between the Guinean government, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, and a…
IFC support for the commodity trader Robust International could help optimise agriculture value chains
The International Financial Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank has…
The move comes even as the African telecom sector continues to register strong growth each year
In a significant move that reduces Singapore’s footprint in Africa’s telecommunications market,…
Image: India is currently facing a prolonged heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 42°C in numerous cities across the country. This map, generated using data from Copernicus Sentinel-3, shows the…
Developer Open Road Renewables has proposed a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Indiana, US, which will total 131MW/524MW of storage, the company’s President exclusively told Energy-storage.…
Greece has doubled its 2030 target for energy storage deployment to 3GW as it aims for a renewable electricity generation proportion of 70%.
The country’s Minister of the Environment and Energy…
Replacing Australia’s largest coal-fired power station with renewable energy would create tens of thousands more construction jobs than replacing it with gas, a new analysis has found.
The Eraring…
The flat, windy fields around the central Minnesota city of Becker are mostly used to grow potatoes and corn.
But if Xcel Energy has its way, it will soon reap a different year-round crop — power…
The announcement this week by the Import-Export Bank of South Korea’s (KEXIM) board to delay a $330 million credit facility for the Barossa gas project, citing environmental and legal factors, is big…
Yishan Wong made his name helping to scale Facebook (FB) and PayPal (PYPL) as a software engineer.
Now, the former Reddit CEO is applying the lessons of Silicon Valley to the world’s greatest…
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