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Yinka Ibukun

Accra, Lagos, Nigeria

Senior Reporter at Bloomberg News

On Twitter break. Senior @business reporter. @Farafinabooks alumna, ex-@AP, -@Reuters. Opinions mine 🇳🇬🇺🇬

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  • 1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Yinka Ibukun

    Pedestrians in the Central Business District in Lagos, Nigeria. (Bloomberg) -- Japan is supporting its companies to grow their business in Africa and develop trade ties across a continent where it’s mainly been seen as a key donor.

  • 1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Laura Millan |Yinka Ibukun |Daniel Basteiro

    Abdou Gueye estaba tan decidido a llegar a España que realizó dos veces el peligroso viaje en barcaza desde su Senegal natal hasta el archipiélago canario. La primera vez, hace 25 años, las autoridades lo devolvieron. La segunda vez, hicieron más o menos la vista gorda. Así que se quedó, en un limbo legal, y durante los últimos cinco años se ha ganado la vida como limpiador, cocinero y peón agrícola.

  • 1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Laura Millan |Yinka Ibukun |Daniel Basteiro

    Abdou Gueye was so determined to get to Spain that he made the dangerous boat journey from his native Senegal to the Canary archipelago twice. The first time, 25 years ago, authorities sent him back. The second time they more or less turned a blind eye. So he stayed, in legal limbo, and for the past five years has been eking out a living as a cleaner, a cook and a farmhand.

  • 2 weeks ago | financialpost.com | Yinka Ibukun

    Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1Wahu Mobility, a Ghanaian startup that manufactures electric bikes, has entered a deal to sell carbon credits to Switzerland, marking the world’s second e-mobility transaction in a nascent market for offsets. Article content(Bloomberg) — Wahu Mobility, a Ghanaian startup that manufactures electric bikes, has entered a deal to sell carbon credits to Switzerland, marking the world’s second e-mobility transaction in a nascent market for offsets.

  • 2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Yinka Ibukun

    A Wahu Mobility electric bike. (Bloomberg) -- Wahu Mobility, a Ghanaian startup that manufactures electric bikes, has entered a deal to sell carbon credits to Switzerland, marking the world’s second e-mobility transaction in a nascent market for offsets. Wahu plans to roll out about 117,000 e-bikes to delivery riders over the next five years, and track emissions avoided by using vehicles that don’t consume petrol.

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Yinka Ibukun
Yinka Ibukun @YIbukun
5 Dec 24

RT @business: Illegal gold mining in Ghana is destroying its environment and hurting its finances. Yet neither of the main political parti…

Yinka Ibukun
Yinka Ibukun @YIbukun
29 Feb 24

I'm breaking an X hiatus today to participate in a Space on African elections via @bpolitics and what's at stake. Join us if you can: https://t.co/zGdAs8Atdt

Yinka Ibukun
Yinka Ibukun @YIbukun
29 Feb 24

It's pub day from my dear friend's newest book!

Tom Burgis
Tom Burgis @tomburgis

***OUT TODAY*** After three extraordinary years following a thread that led from Conservative HQ to Putin's St Petersburg via Kathmandu and a royal Scottish retreat, my new book CUCKOOLAND is out. It's the tale of a world where the rich own the truth. Our world. 👇🧵 https://t.co/mjoX2E3q9v