The African Development Bank Group has approved a landmark €25 million trade finance facility to strengthen Crédit Communautaire d’Afrique-Bank’s capacity to support small and medium-sized enterprises across Cameroon, marking a pivotal moment in the country’s economic development trajectory. The facility was approved on December 1 during a Board of Directors session in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, […]

Google, through its philanthropic arm Google.org, announced a N3 billion (US$2.1 million) commitment to Nigeria on Friday to accelerate the nation’s digital transformation through a strategic, two-pillar initiative. The announcement, made at a media roundtable in Lagos by Google’s Director for West Africa, Olumide Balogun, marks a significant milestone in the tech giant’s decade-long partnership […]

Mastercard has cemented a major strategic partnership with AXIAN Group to roll out a broad suite of digital payment tools across five pivotal African countries—Tanzania, Madagascar, Togo, Comoros, and Senegal. The initiative marks a significant milestone in expanding safe, modern, and inclusive financial services to millions of people across the continent, tackling the historical challenge […]

The Africa Investment Forum 2025 Market Days opened Wednesday in Rabat with an urgent call from African leaders and development finance experts for transformative change in how the continent finances its economic development. Under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the three-day forum has assembled more than 2,500 participants from across the […]