The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a new €59.43 million loan to Burkina Faso. The funds will finance access to electricity for 218,400 households in peri-urban and rural areas. The financing granted by the African Development Bank (AfDB)...

Beth Dunford, African Development Bank Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social DevelopmentThe African Development Bank Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Beth Dunford, led a mission to Cote d’Ivoire’s capital Yamoussoukro, on 16 September to assess...

In 2019, Ghana's president invited African descendants in the diaspora to mark the "Year of Return," commemorating 400 years since the first Africans arrived in the colony now known as Virginia on a slave ship. The invite prompted record...

Energy poverty is one of the single largest challenges preventing faster economic development throughout sub-Saharan Africa. In rural areas it is particularly crucial that women have adequate access to energy, given their crucial role leading families and the stewardship...

Infibranches Technologies Limited, a Nigerian startup that provides digital payment services to solar energy providers, on Monday said it has secured a $2 million funding from All On, an impact investment company backed by oil major Shell.Through its flagship...