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    Situated at the end of an eight-kilometer long access road off the busy Gombe – Yola highway in northeastern Nigeria, Maiganga is a quiet resettled mining community. On this bright Thursday morning, members of the Maiganga women farmers group were in high spirit, as they showcase various food…

The Africa Industrialization Week 2020 (AIW 2020) climaxed with a high-level session commemorating the African Industrialization Day 2020 (AID 2020), where President Mahamadou Issoufou of the Republic of Niger cum AU’s President Champion of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was honoured for his transformational leadership of the AfCFTA…

Ahead of the commencement of trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on January 1, 2020, on Monday, the government of the Republic of Ghana, officially handed over the new AfCFTA secretariat building in the country’s capital Accra, to the African Union     The official handover cum…

In commemoration of the maiden Africa Integration Day, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and the AU Commission, hosted stakeholders to a webinar discussion, exploring the urgency of boosting Africa’s industrialization drive, as the continent readies to implement the AfCFTA       July 7th was declared as Africa Integration…

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) on Monday virtually unveiled its preliminary COVID-19 study titled: “Africa’s Governance Response to COVID-19” before African policymakers and stakeholders from across the continent     Many factors have been attributed to Africa’s still relatively low infection and fatality rates resulting from the coronavirus, despite…

Long before the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) arrived in Africa via Egypt in mid February 2020, everyone knew its emergence on the continent was a matter of when and not if…     Having first emerged in China’s central city of Wuhan in late 2019, the 2019 novel coronavirus…

Between February 24 and 27, about 3, 000 delegates including cabinet ministers and other high-level representatives of UN, AU and its Regional Economic Communities (RECs), convened in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, for the 6th session of Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-6), themed: “2020–2030: A Decade to Deliver a Transformed…

Major world powers are jostling for political and economic influence in Africa, but what is behind the renewed interest on the continent and what are African countries doing about it? The BBC’s Dickens Olewe reports.     In recent years Africans have become used to seeing their leaders accumulate air…

Every week, international NGOs looking to add African partners to their proposals reach out to Population Works Africa.     Too often, representatives of these NGOs have not done their research, according to Stephanie Kimou, founder and lead consultant at the consulting firm, which seeks “to disrupt the historically white space of power…

Last week, the African Union was on a strategic mission to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), aimed at fast-tracking the harmonization of Pan African industrialization frameworks, by the Regional Economic Communities (RECs); the AU also validated its study on financing Africa’s industrialization   As far as economic…