Ghanaian Government sets aside GH¢795m for fuel subsidy for 2013
BY BLAME EKOUE Ghana’s dream of joining the ranks of global oil exporting countries became a reality in December 2010 as the nation pumped her first oil at the Jubilee …
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Togo mines Africa’s largest marble deposits
BY EBOW GODWIN There is widespread contagious excitement in the tiny West African country of Togo following the rare discovery of vast deposits of high-quality ornamental marbles at Pagala …
SONAPRA, Benin State-owned Company for Agricultural Development
SPONSORED MATERIAL The State-owned Company for Agricultural Promotion in Benin (SONAPRA) is the backbone of agricultural development in the small French-speaking West African nation. It recently embarked on a program …
Introducing the Benin Electric Community
BY ED ARTHUR The Benin Electric Community (C.E.B.), a Benin-Togo public organization, is the embodiment of the Beninese and Togolese governments’ decision to have a concerted approach to the …
JP Morgan Chase Co partners with the Johnson Publishing Company
After nearly 70 years independence as a family-owned business, the Johnson Publishing Company announced in July that it has sold a minority share to JP Morgan Chase Co. BY ALAN …
World’s most ethical companies
The Ethisphere Institute, a New York think tank, recently announced its fifth annual list of the world’s most ethical companies. This is a worldwide selection of companies in every industry …
Controversy over African leaders’ donations to French politicians
BY ED ARTHUR Robert Bourgi, an influential French lawyer who calls himself “a close friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy” whom he is known to advise about African issues, has …
Openness demanded in African natural resource contracts
BY ED ARTHUR Global Witness, a non-governmental organization that guards against exploitative uses of natural resources around the world, recently decried a number of surreptitious business agreements between oil, gas …
Helping Africa become the main actor of its own development
BY SAMIR AHMED The Centre International d’Expérimentation et de Valorisation des Ressources Africaines, CIEVRA (the International Center for Experiments and Development of African Resources), which lies on a 40-acre land in …
Power to the youth
BY JEAN DECOLI Building on the Third Annual Youth Summit held last year in Pennsylvania, USA, One Young World, a London-based charity that brings together the youth and a group …