The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) is pleased to announce the launch of the 11th annual Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), taking place on Monday 20 November 2017 when the results and analysis will be shared with the public at iiag.online . To mark the launch, Mo Ibrahim will participate in a Facebook Live event to discuss the key t ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, October 25, 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- African Leadership Academy and Mastercard Foundation are pleased to announce that 22 year old, Ibrahima Ben Aziz Konate from Cote D 39;Ivoire has been awarded the top prize at the seventh annual Anzisha Prize awards gala. Ibrahima Ben Aziz is the founder of Poultry D 3 ...

A Paris court will Friday issue its verdict in the graft case of Equatorial Guinea Vice President Teodorin Obiang -- the first trial stemming from multiple investigations into assets linked to the leaders of three oil-rich African countries. Equatorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville and Gabon all face investigations looking into claims of embezzlemen ...

A French court will on Friday hand down a verdict in the landmark ill-gotten gains trial of Equatorial Guinea's vice president, who is accused of raiding his country's coffers to fund a jet-set lifestyle in Paris. Teodorin Obiang, the 48-year-old son of the country's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, is accused of spending more than 1,000 times ...

Lafayette, Indianapolis, United States, October 25, 2017 ndash; The 2017 World Food Prize Laureate and President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has received the Order of the Griffin award, one of Purdue University rsquo;s highest honors. The Order of the Griffin is given to individuals whose commitment and serv ...

Ten people were killed in clashes at a gold mine in the Tibesti Mountains in northern Chad, pitting locals against outsiders in search of riches, a security source told AFP. The violence erupted early Tuesday when local residents told gold miners who had flocked to the central Sahara mountain region from other parts of Chad to leave, the source ...

The 4th meeting of the Presidential Taskforce on a common currency for the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) has taken place in Niamey, the capital of Niger, with the firm commitment towards the acceleration of the processes leading to the use of the single currency by 2020. The meeting was attended by the members of the Presidential Taskforce, ...

Istanbul, Turkey, 24 October 2017 ndash; As international institutions mobilize to meet the ambitious milestones of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Independent Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and CIS remind us of the need to conduct systematic reviews ...