The name "Sierra Leone" dates back to 1462, when Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra, sailing down the West African coast, saw the tall mountains rising up on what is now the Freetown Peninsula and ...

Investment/Business Opportunities: Côte d’Ivoire is among Africa’s fastest growing economies and is the largest economy in francophone Africa. Côte d’Ivoire has a relatively well-developed energy (6 ...

Investment/Business Opportunities: Algeria is also characterized by major, varied natural resources, its gas reserves being amongst the largest in the world. The country has implemented some of the ...

Investment/Business Opportunities: In addition to its booming diamond sector, new coal mining projects lined up to boost long term growth while continuing to push for structural reforms aiming at ...

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a sovereign country located in West Africa bordering Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Its ...

Investment/Business Opportunities: The Central African Republic is a landlocked country with over 5.1 million inhabitants, spread over a national territory of 623,000 square kilometers and is known ...

Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: República de Guinea Ecuatorial, French: République de Guinée équatoriale, Portuguese: República da Guiné Equatorial),[b] is a ...

Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt ...

The African Union (AU) is the continental body consisting of 55 Member States that make up the countries of the African Continent. It was officially launched in 2002, as the successor to the ...

The African Union Handbook mobile app is available free from the Play Store (Android) or Apple Store (iOS). A PDF version of this book is available ... The AU Constitutive Act solemnises the ...

In 1999, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU decided to convene an extraordinary session to expedite the process of economic and political integration in the continent. On ...