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Remittances as development finance: Africa’s overlooked billions
Remittances as development finance: Africa’s overlooked billions Other global south economies provide valuable lessons on successfully transforming remittance flows into broad-based growth. Published on 26 August 2025 in ISS Today By Julia Baum...
The Digital Shift: Redefining Insurance with Smarter Payments
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São Tomé and Príncipe launches new citizenship by investment scheme
A new citizenship by investment programme is now in effect in São Tomé and Príncipe, enabling individuals from nearly every country in the world to become a citizen for less than US$100,000, reports Lusa. The São Tomé and Príncipe passport...
Get Ahead of Property Tax and Business License Compliance
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Angola: World Bank seeks Financial Management Specialist
The World Bank is seeking a Senior Financial Management Specialist to join the team in Luanda, Angola. Closing date: 31 August 2025 The Prosperity Practice Group (PG) supports economic policies and legal, regulatory and institutional reforms to...

Inventa marks a decade of protecting Nigerian innovation for global competitiveness
Inventa, an international intellectual property (IP) law firm with over 50 years of global experience, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Nigeria office. Since opening its Lagos base in 2015, the firm has become a strategic partner in...

Nigerians eligible to invest $90,000 in São Tomé, access 61 countries visa-free
Nigerians and other nationals are eligible to invest in Sao Tome’s new citizenship-by-investment program (CIB) with $90,000 targeted at development initiatives such as renewable energy, housing and others. The program, officially launched on...

AWS highlights digital identity infrastructure options with hybrid cloud, MOSIP
National digital identity programs around the world have to figure out the challenge of data storage, which can be very costly. Data centers are known to cost billions to build and run. So then a cloud solution can be appealing on a cost basis....

Looking back, looking ahead: Ogbuku and the fierce urgency of developing the Niger Delta now, By Ogaga Ifowodo
Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Samuel Ogbuku It goes without saying that Dr Samuel Ogbuku is a son of the soil and waters of the Niger Delta. And not just because he was born in the old Rivers State, now rivers...

President of Turkmenistan held talks with head of Sao Tome and Principe
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with the President of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe Carlos Manuel Vila Nova, the news program "Watan" reported. The meeting took place in Avaza on the sidelines of the Third UN...

Looking back, looking ahead: Ogbuku and the fierce urgency of developing the Niger Delta now
It goes without saying that Dr Samuel Ogbuku is a son of the soil and waters of the Niger Delta. And not just because he was born in the old Rivers State, now rivers and Bayelsa, but because he lives and breathes the air — I’m tempted to say...

Meeting of Turkmenistan’s President with São Tomé and Príncipe’s President Opens New Prospects for Cooperation
President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov held a meeting with President of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe Carlos Manuel Vila Nova, who arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in the Third United Nations Conference on...
The President of Turkmenistan and the President of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe discussed issues of bilateral cooperation
07 August 2025 38 The President of Turkmenistan and the President of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe discussed issues of bilateral cooperation On August 6, 2025, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with the President of the...

The President of the Republic of Sao Tome and Principe arrived in Turkmenistan to participate in LLDC3
Today, a delegation from the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, headed by President Mr. Carlos Manuel Vila Nova, arrived in the city of Turkmenbashy to participate in the Third UN Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries. As...

“A time of profound reflection”: Official on Third Ordinary, Elective Provincial Chapter of OFM Capuchins in Angola
Luanda, 26 August, 2025 / 7:52 pm (ACI Africa). The ongoing Third Ordinary and Elective Provincial Chapter of members of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (Capuchins/OFM Cap) in Angola is a moment of “profound reflection,” an official has said....
Biomanufacturing: Scale-up vs Scale-out Economics
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4 major trends shaping today’s oncology market
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African Stars vs Chula Chula Available to Corporate Namibia for N$400,000
By: Hee-Dee Walenga Chairperson of the Brave Warriors 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Committee, Tim Ekandjo, announced that African Stars will face off against Eeshoke Chula Chula on 31 August at the Independence Stadium. Currently the most...
Africa’s millionaire population to grow 65%
Africa’s millionaire population is projected to grow by 65% over the next decade, according to the newly published Africa Wealth Report 2025. The continent is currently home to 25 billionaires, 348 centi-millionaires, and 122,500 millionaires — a...

Business News | Merck Foundation CEO and First Ladies of Africa to Call for Action to Build Healthcare & Media Capacity, and Break Infertility Stigma
BusinessWire India Monrovia [Liberia]/ Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 1: Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative - MFFLI Summit 2025 on 19th and...