Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet and will back startups to support the continent's digital transformation, it said on Wednesday.

As Uganda embarks on accelerating its economic development, the Government is taking conscious steps to ensure that growth is socially inclusive and that the protection of the environment is upheld.

CDC Group to invest $720m for minority stake in project in Egypt, Senegal and Somaliland.

The French President, Emmanuel Macron, and the US President's Special Envoy for Climate Change, John Kerry, met on Monday 4 October 2021 with representatives of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) on the occasion of the One Planet Coalition's (OPSWF) Fourth Annual Sovereign Wealth Fund CEO Summit.

After decades of strife and bloodshed, Sudan has made significant gains in the two years since its revolution, adopting important economic reforms and gradually rejoining the international community. Now, the country needs investment, and it has no shortage of profitable opportunities to offer.

COVID-19 poses a grave threat to lives across Africa, with the World Health Organization (WHO) estimating that the continent could see up to 190,000 deaths over the next year if the pandemic is not controlled. In the face of this challenge, governments have acted fast, both to strengthen the capacity of health systems and to contain the spread of the virus: as of May 19, about half of Africa’s population lives in countries imposing some type of lockdown. But despite accelerating case numbers and still-low testing rates in many countries (Exhibit 1), as well as recent reports of a worsening health crisis in hotspots on the continent, some governments have started to ease restrictions with caution as economic pain becomes more acute for households.

Afro Champions, a club of businessmen, political leaders coming all from Africa is advancing an investment initiative of 1 trillion dollars to set in place the free trade area in the African continent in its quality of an effective activist in civil society.

Algeria aims to become, like Casablanca, a gateway for foreign companies wishing to project to the African continent.