Quotes and other citations in the media…
Senegal plans 2023 start for $4.3B BP-Kosmos gas program
The Grand Tortue Ahmeyim gas field development, straddling the offshore waters of Mauritania and Senegal, is expected to produce its first gas in 2023 following delays related to the coronovirus pandemic, according to Senegal’s Oil Minister Sophie Gladima. Please read more here.
Bloomberg (Jan 2021)
Ghana set for first Sub-Saharan African LNG-to-Power Project
Ghana is set to open Sub-Saharan Africa’s first liquefied natural gas-to-power project as it moves to position itself as a hub for the cleaner and cheaper fuel in the region. Please read more here.
Bloomberg (Jan 2021)
Ghana Faces post-election gridlock in parliament
Ghana's new parliament will be sworn in on Thursday, virtually split down the middle between the two main parties, posing the risk of gridlock with key issues on the agenda including how to turn around an economy hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Please read more here.
Agence France Presse (Jan 2021)
Continuity and challenges for Ghana’s returning president
The election in Ghana sets the path for continuity but there are challenges ahead for the incumbent, who will continue to face difficulties in the power sector… Please read more here.
Energy Voice (Dec 2020)
His rivals have been arrested or exiled, but Ivorian President insists: 'They're not democrats'
On November 9, a group of men gathered in a dusty town in southern Ivory Coast that sits at the junction of two major highways… Please read more here.
CNN (Dec 2020)
West Africa vs Big Chocolate: Battle over price sours relations
Ivory Coast and Ghana struggle to boost farmer incomes from commodity that underpins $100bn industry… Please read more here.
Financial Times (Dec 2020)
Investors Want More of Same in Ghana as Fiscal Challenges Mount
Investors are betting on the incumbent, President Nana Akufo-Addo, to sort out Ghana’s fiscal challenges if he wins a second term in Monday’s election... Please read more here.
Bloomberg (Dec 2020)
Ghanaians Prepare to Vote in Election with Familiar Front-Runners
Ghanaians go to the polls Monday with incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo and former president John Mahama as front-runners... Please read more here.
Voice of America (Dec 2020)
Invest Africa panel discussion: Ghana Election Outlook
Deep dive discussion, examining the political and economic future of Ghana at the end of 2020 and into 2021 moderated by Songhai Advisory Managing Partner Kissy Agyeman-Togobo... Please read more here.
Invest Africa (Nov 2020)
Ghana’s Corruption Fight Questioned After Prosecutor Quits
Less than three weeks ahead of Ghana's election, anti-corruption Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has resigned, alleging political interference with his work… Please read more here.
Voice of America (Nov 2020)
Africa-Australia Mining Connection Explored at Africa Mining Forum
Exclusive interview with Duncan Harris, President of the Australia Africa Chamber of Commerce, the moderator of the Spotlight session, “The Africa/Australia mining connection: What do investors have in mind?”… Please read more here.
Mining Review Africa (Nov 2020)
Bloomberg (Nov 2020)
Bond Investors Reap Ivory Coast Returns Despite Election Strife
The dollar notes of the world’s top cocoa producer have returned 6.9% since the beginning of October. That’s the most among peers on the continent and second-best in emerging markets after Belize… Please read more here.
star 100 (Oct 2020)
Star 100 panel discussion: Elections 2020. Ghana, Where to now?
Economists Kwame Pianim and Patrick Stephenson moderated by Songhai Managing Partner Nana Adu Ampofo discuss Ghana’s current state of development, the outlook and the role for its Diaspora... Please read more here.
BLoomberg (Oct 2020)
Ivory Coast Leader’s Legitimacy at Stake in Vote He’s Set to Win
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara sheltered in a hotel for months after he won 2010 elections, protected by United Nations troops from hostile fighters. A decade on, he’s facing a new challenge: convincing an increasingly skeptical population he can stay on for five more years… Please read more here.
Our lives matter, Nigerian protesters say over police killings
For two weeks now, Mayowa Olayinka has joined thousands of demonstrators in the Nigerian commercial capital of Lagos to protest against police brutality... Please read more here.
Japan times (oct 2020)
Social investment must ‘take root’ in Africa as continent as continent recovers from COVID-19
Africa’s venture philanthropy leader highlights innovative finance deals could help bridge massive funding gap to meet Sustainable Development Goals... Please read more here
Pioneers post (aug 2020)
Racial unrest impedes US bid to counter China in Africa
The United States’s Africa strategy proposed bilateral trade deals, a foreign aid overhaul to claw back lost influence. The killing of an unarmed African-American by a Minneapolis police officer and resulting civil upheaval have set back U.S. efforts to strengthen its tenuous relationship with Africa and counter China’s growing influence... Please read more here.
AL Jazeera (Jun 2020)
Virus surge puts developing nations exiting lockdowns at risk
Developing countries face an explosion in coronavirus infections as they exit lockdowns amid worsening outbreaks because the economic cost of remaining shuttered is too great... Please read more here
The Straits Times (Jun 2020)
ESI Africa (FEB 2020)
Nigeria settles dispute over construction of Mambilla hydro plant.
Nigeria is set to build the second-largest hydropower plant in Africa after the government settled a legal dispute that was delaying the project, said power minister Sale Mamman... Please read more here.
GTR West Africa 2020 - Driving economic growth with trade. Lagos, Nigeria
Managing Partner Nana Adu Ampofo joins Robert Parson of Clyde & Co and Jimi Oyelola of Plus Petroleum to discuss the African oil and gas sector, financing market dynamics and the huge potential economic benefits offered by a pipeline of megaprojects such as the Dangote Refinery and Nigeria LNG… Please read more here.