Liberia: Significant New Investment Deals Signal Economic Turnaround

When Richard Tolbert was tapped by then President-elect Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to head Liberia's National Investment Commission in late 2005, many friends questioned why he… Read more »

Mozambique: President Promotes Private Enterprise, Investment

On a continent often described by its problems, many countries, including my own, would rather be defined by the solutions they adopt and the decisions they are implementing. Read more »

Africa: Continent Needs Good Policies, Investment, Says Report

Good government policies, better access to finance and more infrastructure are all needed if Africa is to expand its economy. Corruption and lack of skills, energy and transport… Read more »

Nigeria: Ex-Im Bank Denies Approving Loan for Police Fund

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has disputed a recent report that it has granted a loan to Nigeria's Presidential Committee on Police Equipment Fund. Read more »

Liberia: Forum Spotlights Country's Readiness To Do Business

A one-day conference focused on private sector opportunities in Liberia drew an overflow crowd of 400 registrants last month in Washington, DC. The turnout raised hopes that… Read more »

Liberia: Private Sector Forum Sells Out As Sirleaf Arrives in Washington Seeking Debt Relief

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is making a return visit to Washington this week with an urgent agenda. To deliver the jobs and services she sees as essential to building… Read more »

Africa: Time for a New Story to Be Told

Average economic growth of more than five percent, record flows of foreign direct investment and stock markets that routinely outperform London, New York and Tokyo. This is Africa… Read more »

Cape Verde: Well-Governed African Nations Merit Attention, Says Prime Minister

"In African countries at-large there is not close attention being given to countries that have good government," Cape Verde Prime Minister, Jose Maria Neves said Thursday… Read more »

Ghana: Kufuor Says Millennium Challenge Compact Provides Boost to Country's Economic Progress

The following is a transcription of the press briefing by Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor on August 4, 2006 at the Wyndham Hotel, Washington, DC. At the briefing, which was… Read more »

Africa: Former U.S. President and Nigerian Foreign Minister Tie African Development to Investment, Capacity Building

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria's foreign minister and former finance minister, used the occasion of a summit of African and African American… Read more »

Africa: African Union Chairman Expresses Optimism, Pushes Investment

President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, current chairman of the African Union (AU), spoke on developments on the continent as well as investment opportunities in… Read more »

Africa: Stakeholders Seek Ways To Broaden Agoa Opportunities

When the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) was enacted in 2001, the legislation "changed U.S. political discourse with African countries from begging bowl to business… Read more »

Africa: Investors Want to See Good Practices Sustained, Africa Bank President Says

Not enough attention is being paid to African success stories, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz told an Africa investment forum last week. Citing a decline in active armed… Read more »

Africa: Diplomats Stage 'Africa Week' in Washington to Showcase What Africa Has to Offer

The African Union, whose members include 53 African nations, is this week marking the anniversary of the founding on May 25, 1963 of its predecessor, the Organization of African… Read more »

Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Oprah's Wednesday Broadcast, Continues Push for Investment and Rebuilding Assistance

During a two-day private visit to Chicago last week, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf taped an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show that will air on Wednesday. Read more »

Liberia: Allen Brown Puts His Faith and His Money in His Country's Need for Lodging [AllAfrica Profile]

Crunching across shell-encrusted gravel toward a ruined, beachfront mansion not far from downtown Monrovia, the capitol of Liberia, Allen Brown II looks like a happy man. Never… Read more »

Liberia: 'Tremendous Potential', Says Investment Commission Chairman

Since Liberian President William R. Tolbert was assassinated in 1980 by junior military officers, the country has been in turmoil, with rival armed factions competing for power.… Read more »

Guinea: Bauxite Investment Spurs West African Hopes

In one of the world's 10 poorest countries, where life expectancy barely exceeds 50 years, where 75 per cent of the women are illiterate, and where almost everyone is unemployed,… Read more »

Ghana: Minister Says the Future of the Private Sector in Ghana Is 'Beautiful'

Ghana's Minister for Private Sector Development and the President's Special Initiatives, Kwamena Bartels, discusses the role and importance of the private sector to Ghana's economy… Read more »

Guinea: Local Residents Place High Hopes on Guinea's New Aluminum Refinery

For many citizens of Kamsar and Sangaredi, two cities about two hundred miles north of the capital Conakry in the West African nation of Guinea, bauxite mining has always been the… Read more »

Africa: 'Africa Open for Business' - Stories That Deserve to Be Reported

Business activity is a subject that is sometimes missed in international reporting about Africa. Despite that, Africa produces some impressive economic statistics: a 144 percent… Read more »

Zambia: Zambia Is a Peaceful Destination for Tourism and Investment - Mwanawasa

Levy Mwanawasa, who took part in last week's U.S.-Africa Business Summit, became president of Zambia in January 2002 after a hotly contested election the previous month in which he… Read more »

Africa: Summit Had Good Attendance and Deals Got Done, Says Corporate Council Leader

Addresses by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Constance Newman and Paul Applegarth from the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation highlighted… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Chief Sees Africa as Continent of Hope

Saying that Africa must be sold on the merits of its potential and not just on the basis of its needs, the World Bank's new president told an international group of business… Read more »

Africa: Business Summit Aimed at Boosting U.S. Investment in Africa, Says CCA President

The fifth U.S. Africa Business Summit, sponsored by the Washington, DC-based Corporate Council on Africa, opened in Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday night with a gala awards dinner.… Read more »