The President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, challenged governments in Africa to play a leading role in providing jobs for Africans, saying it was time for African governments to begin to shift from youth empowerment to youth investment. Adesina who was speaking over the weekend at the 5th Tony Elumelu African Entrepreneurship forum […]
Morocco’s first sugar refinery Cosumar announced that production in its new refinery in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, will start in March this year. The refinery in Yanbu is scheduled to start operating in March 2020, Cosumar group CEO Mohamed Fikrat told Reuters. The Yanbu refinery, with a nominal capacity of 850,000 tons of high quality white […]
A group of unidentified armed men attacked last Saturday a train station in Edo State, south of Nigeria, and kidnapped dozens of passengers, the Nigerian police announced. Chidi Nwabuzor, spokesperson for the police said in a statement that a number of passengers were also injured when gunmen, carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles, attacked the “Igueben” station, […]
