Morocco vaccinates 200k, tops African countries by far

Morocco, the first African country to launch a national vaccine campaign, has so far given doses to 200,081 becoming so far the country with the most vaccinated people in the continent. Morocco rolled out the vaccine on Friday after receiving two million doses from AstraZeneca and 500,000 jabs from China’s Sinopharm. The vaccination campaign targeted […]

OAPI-AGF €60 million partnership to commercialize 1,000 African patents by 2030

The African Organization for Intellectual Property (OAPI) and the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) have launched a €60.9 million partnership to finance 1,000 innovative projects across 17 African countries by 2030. The agreement, signed this week, aims to transform patents into viable commercial ventures in countries including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal. […]

Sahel instability threatens to turn Burkina Faso’s gold boom to bust

The impoverished citizens of Burkina Faso have missed out on a gold mining boom over the last decade, as the West African country loses territory to Islamist militants and lurches from coup to coup, threatening to turn the boom to bust. As the fourth largest gold producer in Africa, Burkina Faso has been in the […]