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H.E. Fafa Sanyang, Minister of Petroleum and Energy, The GambiaThe Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, The Gambia, has announced that it will be opening a mini-licensing round for Block A1 at Africa Oil Week on 8 November 2021. This...

Temenos the banking software company, today announced that Barko, a leading microfinance company, plans to enter the retail banking market in South Africa with a new digital bank built on Temenos Transact and powered by The Temenos Banking Cloud....

Mozambique has become the first country to receive payments from a World Bank trust fund for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation—commonly known as REDD+. The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) paid Mozambique $6.4 million for reducing 1.28...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group, and DEG, the private sector-focused subsidiary of KfW, have agreed to cooperate more closely to leverage each other’s toolkits and structure comprehensive solutions...