Category: Africa-Asia Win-Win Partnerships

Factoring  South-South Cooperation into Ghana’s Emerging NIB

UNIDA GONTOR-IFRIG Join hands for Scale Up Source:University of Darussalaam Gontor News,First Published, 30 June 2026 The University of Darussalam Gontor (UNIDA Gontor), Indonesia, and the Islamic Finance Research Institute of Ghana (IFRIG) formalized a strategic partnership today through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. The collaboration is in direct conjunction with the planned establishment of a free-interest bank in Ghana. The signing was witnessed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Khoirul Umam, Vice Rector for Student Affairs, Cooperation, and International Relations alongside Prof. Dr. Akhmad Affandi Mahfudz., CPIF a renowned…

Addressing Africa’s ‘Poverty’ amidst Minerals Abundance: Critical View

Editorial Comment “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds….”  the late Bob Marley said it all, in his “Redemption Song” released in 1980 under one of his most popular albums, “Uprising”.. The need for Africa’s minerals resources rich countries to end the colonial legacy of raw minerals and other natural resources exports over dependency and to re-think, re-image, and re-set natural resource endowment to play a catalytic role in their development agendas, has become more imperative than ever before. South-South Cooperation  The rising geopolitical tensions…

Ghana’s Non-Interest Banking & Finance Journey gets a major boost

……As Five-Day Trainning & Study Tour Ends in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Story: Mohammed A. Abu The five-day International Workshop and Study Tour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that entailed, non-interest banking and finance training, sukuk structuring, capital market products, and Takaful (non-interest insurance) has ended on a successful note. The primary intended target audience were Ghana’s state financial institutional regulators, capital market operators, bankers, pension fund administrators, potential sukuk issuers, etc. The programme brought together professionals from Ghana, Nigeria, Malaysia, and other countries to explore the exploits of this East Asian…

Reimagining South–South Cooperation: Building an India–Africa Strategic Partnership for the Next Global Economy

Author: Hariharan Sundararajan Chairman, Federation of Asian African Trade Development & Investments (FAATDI) Founder & Strategic Visionary, Bharat Strategic Apex Institute (BSAI) Founder & Managing Director, Aurum Elite Bullion LLC & AuroChain A Perspective on Strategic Commodities, Financial Architecture, Trade, Technology, and Sustainable Development The global economy is undergoing a permanent structural realignment, shifting decisively from open-ended globalization to fragmented, hyper-localized geoeconomics. As traditional supply chains fracture and multilateral systems struggle under the weight of great-power rivalries, the Global South can no longer rely on legacy external frameworks to guarantee…