Category: Features & News Stories

Driving Continental Investment,Ownership and Growth

Unstoppable Africa 2026 sends African,Global CEOs,Leaders to New York   More than 2,000 African and global business leaders plus heads of state will gather in New York on September 20–21 for Unstoppable Africa, flagship event of the Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) according to an official statement issued in New York,Wednesday. Convened by UN Secretary-General António Guterres and H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and organized and coordinated by the UN Global Compact, the fifth edition of Unstoppable Africa will convene under the theme “Powering Business,…

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Global South cultural diplomacy gets a major booster

….As DR. Sandeep  Marwah  named Chair of  Indo–Djibuoti Film and Cultural Forum AASGON and GSEF Congratulate Global South Media Leader as India and Djibouti Deepen Cooperation through Cinema, Culture and Creative Industries NEW DELHI, INDIA — Dr. Sandeep Marwah, President of Marwah Studios, the International Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry (ICMEI), and the Global South Media Association, has been nominated as Chair of the Indo–Djibouti Film and Cultural Forum under the aegis of ICMEI. The certificate of appointment was formally presented by H.E. Isse Abdillahi Assoweh,Ambassador of the Republic…

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Climate Policy Needs More Science and Less Dogma

About Author: Veselina Vargova,Climate Finance Expert,Co-Founder,Rhodope Global For years, the climate debate has been framed as a closed question: “the science is settled,” “the consensus is 97%,” “to doubt is to deny the science.” The problem is that this framing blurs the line between two very different things — the physical fact that CO2 traps heat, and the political claim that the only reasonable response is rapid, expensive, globally mandated decarbonization. The second does not automatically follow from the first, and that is precisely where room for a legitimate, evidence-based…

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Africa and the Green Energy Transition: An Analytical Survey

By: Mohammed A. Abu(Editor-in-Chief) Introduction Following Sidi Ould Tah’s taking of office on September 1,2025,as the African Development Bank(AfDB)’s fifth president, Secretary-General António Guterres, framed the challenge before him without the least ambiguity: steering investment in Africa’s renewable energy, which he described as “the economic opportunity of the century.” Africa’s population of 1.5 billion people over half of which is said to be under the age of 25 years, does not only make her the world’s most youth populated continent, but also, it makes her the world’s most dynamic workforce.…

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𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚’𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬… 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐁 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚‘𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 By Hariharan Sundararajan Founding President, Global Gold Policy Institute (GGPI) 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 The future of gold governance will increasingly be determined by a question that extends well beyond production: Can a country demonstrate that its gold can be trusted? Trust is becoming a strategic asset in international bullion markets. The world’s major refiners, financial institutions, investors and increasingly sophisticated consumers are placing greater emphasis on provenance, responsible sourcing, environmental performance, chain of custody and regulatory integrity.…

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𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚’𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: 𝐀 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐚‘𝐬 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝 By Hariharan Sundararajan Founding President Global Gold Policy Institute (GGPI) 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Africa has never lacked gold. For centuries, the continent has supplied the world with one of its most coveted strategic resources, contributing significantly to global bullion markets, central bank reserves, industrial manufacturing, jewellery, and investment demand. Yet despite its abundant geological wealth, much of Africa has captured only a fraction of the value created along the global gold…

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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…

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The Digital Trust and Operationalization of Ghana’s Gold Offtake Enablement Layer

A new wind is blowing across Africa’s minerals resources endowment landscape reflected in a paradigm shift from the decades long historic model of exporting the greatest bulk of mineral assets to pragmatic actions being taken towards positioning them for exporting locally refined and value added products in order to maximize economic benefits. Also noted, is a change in appreciating “local content” as if it were simply limited only to how many citizens were employed in various job categories  by foreign minerals extraction companies to a new dawn of higher sense…

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High Commissioner urges Ghana to look beyond the west for economic solutions

Source: Anass Sabit, KUALA LUMPUR , 26 June 2026 11:16am Ghana’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Florence B. Akonor, has called on the country to reduce its over-reliance on Western economic models and instead draw lessons from Asia’s development success stories. According to her, Ghana must learn from Malaysia’s discipline, policy consistency and long-term vision if it is to overcome its current economic challenges. The remarks were made on the fourth day of an intensive five-day training and study tour in Kuala Lumpur, where Ghana’s top financial regulators are studying Malaysia’s globally The…

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Roads That Build Communities The Social Benefits of ECOROADS® Soil Stabilization for Rural Populations

Introduction A rural road is never only a road. For the communities it serves, it is the difference between a harvest that reaches the market and one that rots in the field; between a child who reaches school every day and one who is kept home when the track turns to mud; between a clinic an expectant mother can reach in time and one that lies beyond the reach of an emergency. Across much of the rural and developing world, the absence of reliable, all-weather roads remains one of the…

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