Month: July 2025

Attaining Food Security and Combatting Global Warming: Scientists Eye Africa’s Baobab and Marula

Mr Mohammed

Report: Mohammed A. Abu Amidst food security concerns and the disastrous global warming that constitutes an existential threat to humanity today, scientific researchers posit that two iconic trees, the African baobab (Adansonia digitata) and Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) might be more important for food security and preventing disastrous global warming than any other species growing on our home planet. Baobab and marula, they say could be grown sparsely on vast areas without changing the existing land-use patterns. Their Unique Selling Points They can become large trees in arid conditions, where nothing…

No more missed opportunities: Strengthening Africa-Caribbean trade and investment in an era of Global Trade Disruption (By Pamela Coke-Hamilton and Benedict Oramah)

Mr Mohammed

Authors: Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, International Trade Centre, and Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman, Afreximbank (www.Afreximbank.com).  The share of bilateral exports between Africa and the Caribbean, despite extensive shared history, has never surpassed 6%, according to an ITC and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) study, leaving much room for growth of up to $2.1 billion within the next 5 years according to new studies. Key to this growth is adding value in priority sectors, such as minerals, processed food, , manufactured products, transport, travel and creative industries. We’re living in precarious…

Changing the Northern Ghana Narrative: Members of Parliament Adopt Affirmative Action

Mr Mohammed

Members of the Northern Caucus of Ghana’s 9th Parliament in collaboration with the Northern Development Authority(NDA) and other key stakeholders development Partners including Members of Parliament(MPs) from the five Northern Regions, held the First Northern Region Development Conference, in the Northern Regional’s Capital of Tamale. Hosted under the theme: “A Conference of Northern People, Leaders and Partners”, the event was intended to lobby President John Dramani Mahama and his ministers for fair resource allocation to accelerate development in northern Ghana. Majority Leader and MP for Bawku Central, Hon Mahama Ayariga, said…

Sierra Leone and African Development Bank Target $90 Billion in Annual Illicit Financial Flows

Mr Mohammed

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, July 25, 2025/ — A four-day high-level seminar concluded last week with concrete recommendations to combat the estimated $90 billion that Africa loses annually to illicit financial flows, as the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and Sierra Leone Government intensify efforts to strengthen natural resource governance. More than 70 stakeholders from government, civil society, private sector, and international organizations gathered at The Place Resort in Tokeh  under the theme “Harnessing Africa’s Wealth: Curbing Illicit Financial Flows for Resilient Growth and Development.” Illicit financial flows are among Africa’s…

Africa’s Business Heroes 2025 Edition: Event Unveils Top 50 Finalists from All 54 African Nations

Mr Mohammed

Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) (www.AfricaBusinessHeroes.org), the flagship philanthropic initiative of the Alibaba Philanthropy, is proud to announce the Top 50 finalists of its 2025 Prize Competition—marking a record-breaking year for participation and regional representation,says an official statement issued in Kigali,Thursday. This year,the statement said, ABH received 32,000 applications, the highest in the competition’s history, with submissions from all 54 African countries – reinforcing ABH’s status as one of the continent’s largest and most inclusive entrepreneurial competitions. The 2025 Top 50 provides an overview of Africa’s entrepreneurial landscape. African businesses are increasingly leveraging…

Imposition of Israeli Sovereignty Over West Bank: Joint Arab-Ministerial Committee Condemns the Act

Mr Mohammed

The Kingdom of Bahrain, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Republic of Indonesia, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the State of Palestine, the State of Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, the League of Arab States (LAS), and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) vehemently condemn the recent ratification by the Israeli Knesset regarding the imposition of “Israeli sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank,an official statement said in Jeddah,Thursday. This action,the statement noted, is viewed as a…

Togo’s ‘Nana-Benz’: how cheap Chinese imports of African fabrics have hurt the famous women traders

Mr Mohammed

The Conversation First Published,23rd July,2025 Authors: Fidele B. Ebia,Postdoctoral fellow, Duke Africa Initiative, Duke University Rory Horner,Reader, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester The manufacturing of African print textiles has shifted to China in the 21st century. While they are widely consumed in African countries – and symbolic of the continent – the rise of “made in China” has undermined the African women traders who have long shaped the retail and distribution of this cloth. For many decades Vlisco, the Dutch textile group which traces its origins to 1846 and whose…

Catalogue of Gaza Strip Israeli Atrocities Since October,2023

Mr Mohammed

From 15 to 21 July 2025, the Gaza strip has been subjected to horrific escalation by the Israeli occupation’s aggression, bringing the death toll over the reporting period to, 646 dead and 3101 injured, mostly children and women, in Gaza and the West Bank, including Al-Quds Al Sharif. As such, the toll rose to 60,544 dead and 150,820 injured in Gaza and the West Bank, including Al-Qods Al Sharif, since 7 October 2023, in a rising pace of the crimes and violations perpetrated against the Palestinian people. Gaza is under…

Prof Benedict Oramah recognised

Mr Mohammed

……….As 32nd Afreximbank Annual Meetings in Abuja More than 400 dignitaries including business and political leaders from Nigeria,across Africa and the diaspora attended the African Export-Import Bank’s(Afreximbank) Third Edition of the Pan-African Business and Development Award hosted in collaboration with the Business Council for Africa(BCA) on Wednesday June 25,2025 in Abuja,Nigeria. The Pan-African Business and Development Awards, held annually during the Afreximbank Annual Meetings, are designed to celebrate and recognise transformative businesses and financial institutions within the African continent and in the diaspora in keeping with the Bank’s vision for…

27 Children Killed Daily in Gaza as Israeli War Crimes Continue

Mr Mohammed

In a series of raids, the Israeli warplanes pounded several residential targets, sites, facilities, and buildings across the Gaza’s governorates. They killed 865 Palestinians from 8 to 14 July 2025, raising the death toll to 59,898 dead since 7 October 2023. The OIC Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes against Palestinians recorded the injury of 2,493 persons over the past seven days, raising the total wounded to 147,719 from 7 October 2023 to 14 July 2025. The killing operations of the past week were marked by intensive Israeli bombing of random…