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Financing local dev't: FEICOM renews support to network of African insti...
The Guardian Post
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He was speaking during the handing over ceremony of the new bureau of RIAFCO in Yaounde. The event was also punctuated with a session among FEICOM staff and RIAFCO officials. The bureau was put in place during the 13th Ordinary General Assembly of...
Jah Oil Boss Says Senegal Is The Biggest Protectionist In Africa
The Voice Gambia
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August 18, 2025
By: Nicholas Bass The Managing Director of Jah Oil Company, Momodou Hydara, has alleged that Senegal is the “biggest protectionist of business in Africa,” a practice he says threatens the survival of Gambian industries. Mr. Hydara made the remarks...
GHIB partners Vista Bank Group to strengthen West African trade finance
The Herald Ghana
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August 18, 2025
Ghana International Bank (GHIB) has entered into a strategic partnership with Vista Bank Group to improve access to trade finance and correspondent banking services across West African markets. The agreement was signed in London during CNVERGE...
From Senegal to The Gambia: Imam Bacchus reflects on Slave Trade atrocities
Caribbean Life - New York
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August 17, 2025
Imam Shaykh Safraz Bacchus, center engaged several African children during his 2024 trip to continue his humanitarian work, He distributed school supplies and food hampers. Photo courtesy of Imam Shaykh Safraz Bacchus Guyanese-born Imam Shaykh...
Senegal: Families Internally Displaced by Floods in Limbo
Human Rights Watch
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August 18, 2025
For nine years, in Khar Yalla, authorities have effectively abandoned Senegalese families internally displaced from the Langue de Barbarie peninsula by coastal floods, violating their rights to an adequate standard of living, education, health,...
GHIB and Vista Bank Forge Strategic Alliance to Boost African Trade Finance
News Ghana
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August 18, 2025
Ghana International Bank (GHIB) has teamed up with Vista Bank Group in a landmark partnership aimed at transforming trade finance access across West Africa. The collaboration, unveiled at London’s CNVERGE ’25 conference, designates GHIB as the...
Job opportunity: IFC seeks Operations Analyst in Senegal
ESI Africa
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August 18, 2025
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is seeking a highly motivated Operations Analyst to join the team in Senegal and support the region. Closing date: 28 August 2025 The Operations Analyst will join the Financial Institutions Group (FIG),...
GHIB, Vista Bank partner to drive Africa expansion
CNR Citi Newsroom
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August 18, 2025
Ghana International Bank (GHIB) today announced a strategic collaboration with Vista Bank Group at the CNVERGE ’25 conference, establishing a comprehensive partnership to enhance trade finance access across West African markets and strengthen...
Smartphone growth fuels global expansion of digital finance
Cyprus Mail
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August 18, 2025
The World Bank’s latest Global Findex Database shows that mobile phones and the internet are transforming financial inclusion worldwide, making digital financial services more accessible, affordable, and widely used. Launched in 2011, the Global...
Scaling Africa’s fintech to bridge financial inclusion gaps and boost SMEs
Business Day
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August 18, 2025
Introduction: Fintech as Africa’s Economic Equaliser Across the African continent, millions of people still lack access to basic financial services: credit, savings, insurance, and digital payments. This financial exclusion limits economic growth,...
Senegal's 'schools for husbands' aim to shift gender roles, keep mothers from dying
ABC News - New York
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August 17, 2025
DAKAR, Senegal -- On a recent evening in Senegal 's capital of Dakar, an imam named Ibrahima Diane explained to a group of men why they should be more involved in household chores. “The Prophet himself says a man who does not help support his wife...
Senegal's ‘schools for husbands’ aim to shift gender roles and keep mothers from dying
The Independent
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August 17, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Trade Finance Key to Africa’s Industrial Leap
News Ghana
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August 16, 2025
A $10 million deal to supply processed onions to Senegal slipped through West African hands last year, landing with European exporters instead. Why? Local growers couldn’t secure financing for basic processing equipment despite abundant raw...
Karpowership and Seatrium launch LNGTS Americas, sign LOI for Next-Gen Floating Power Projects
MyJoyOnline
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August 18, 2025
Karpowership and Seatrium, while strengthening their strategic partnership with next-generation Powership and LNG Terminal Ship (LNGTS) conversions, also celebrated the naming of Karadeniz LNGTS Americas, the fifth member of Karpowership’s LNGTS...
Is China responsible for the illegal extraction of mineral resources by its companies in Africa?
Global Voices
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August 17, 2025
An artisanal coltan mine in the DRC, where local residents mine for coltan on a small scale. Image from Flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0 This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone...
Boissy, Badio inspire Senegal to hard-fought win over Mali
FIBA Basketball
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LUANDA (Angola) - Senegal had to dig deep to secure a monumental 80-70 victory over Mali in Group D of the 2025 AfroBasket on Saturday at the Pavilhao Multiusos de Luanda. Brancou Badio and Jean Jacques Boissy's team-high 17 points each, and...
UAE and Senegal Forge Strategic Water Investment Alliance in Africa
Arabian Post
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August 16, 2025
Greenlogue/AP The United Arab Emirates and Senegal have formalised a significant partnership aimed at addressing Africa’s escalating water and sanitation challenges. This collaboration, announced during the 2025 UN Ocean Conference, underscores a...
Co-creating Africa’s Brighter Future: A New Era of Partnership at TICAD 9
Front Page Africa
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August 18, 2025
(Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan) Shigeru ISHIBA PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN Twenty-five years ago, in 2000, I visited Senegal for the first time, marking my initial steps into Africa. I was overwhelmed...
Senegal President exempts himself from new anti-corruption law
Africanews
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August 14, 2025
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has vowed to return financial accountability to the Senegalese government after his predecessor left billions of dollars in hidden debt – yet, Faye himself is exempt from new transparency law. Senegal’s government...
OPEC Partners with African Energy Week 2025
Business Ghana
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OPEC's participation comes at a pivotal moment for African energy. Countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Libya – as well as emerging producers like Senegal and Namibia – already play central...