Month: October 2023

Namibia’s Landscape to Shine at the Africa Hospitality Investment Forum 2024

Mr Mohammed

The Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF), which is the premier tourism and hotel investment conference in Africa, attracting many prominent international hotel owners, investors, financiers, management companies and their advisers, will take place on 25 – 27 June 2024, in Namibia. The venue will be the Mövenpick and Mercure hotels in Namibia’s capital city, Windhoek. Both properties are receiving a total makeover after they were acquired in 2021 by a fund managed by Kasada Capital Management, the leading independent real estate private equity platform dedicated to the hospitality industry in…

Inaugural Board Meeting of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Adjustment Fund Corporation holds in the Republic of Rwanda

Mr Mohammed

KIGALI, Rwanda, October 6, 2023/ — Following the mandate by the African Union (AU) Summit of Heads of State and Government and the AfCFTA Council of Ministers responsible for Trade , Afreximbank (www.Afreximbank.com) and the AfCFTA Secretariat were mandated to establish and operationalise the AfCFTA Adjustment Fund through a General Partnership – the AfCFTA Adjustment Fund Corporation – with operations of the Fund domiciled in Rwanda. The Fund will support countries and private entities through financing, technical assistance, grants and compensation funding in their transition to the new trading regime…

Unlocking the full Potential of the African Baobab

Mr Mohammed

By: Mohammed A. Abu Professor Kenneth Fafa Egbadzor,the Lead Researcher of the Domestication of the African Baobab Project at the Ho Technical University(HTU) in Ghana’s Volta Region,who is also, a plant breeding expert, has noted that even though, research has established that there are over 300 different uses of Baobab but yet, the plant is undomesticated and underutilized. The African baobab he said, also referred to as, “the wooden elephant” is also included among those crops referred to as orphan, meaning that they do not receive research attention. Ghana, Africa…

About Proportionality as Principles Expands in Banking

Mr Mohammed

About Proportionality as Principles Expands in Banking CIBAFI Offers Basel Committee some Insights By: Mohammed A. Abu The Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain based General Council for Islamic Financial Institutions(CIBAFI) has formally Submitted Comments to the Switzerland based Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCB regarding its Consultative Document on “Revisions to the Core principles for effective banking supervision (“Core Principles”) an official statement disclosed in Manama, Thursday. CIBAFI noted according to the Press Release, that even though the updated “Introduction to Core Principles” improves comprehension of proportionality, banks still however, express…

Harnessing the Combined Talents of Africa and the Caribbean for a Brighter Future

Mr Mohammed

From December 1 & 2, 2023, the leading London-based Business consulting and investment Firm, Wealth Masters Group, is conveying African and Caribbean Private sector to discuss Business and Investment opportunities among themselves during a 2-day virtual event Going under the theme “find your purpose, potential, business niche and key strategies needed as African/Caribbean from topnotch entrepreneurs and business owners”,the overall idea behind this virtual summit is to build bridges of understanding and fostering meaningful partnerships, that can harness the immense potential of the combined talents of the two regions, resources,…