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- US bars Malawi officials over corruption allegations
- Ghana’s families struggle amid soaring inflation
- Kenya plans first nuclear power plant
- Marula Mining secures Kenya manganese licence
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THE National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), the central bank, on Wednesday announced that it will offer a ransom in reward…
THE global financial architecture must be reconfigured completely to reflect the needs and participation of countries in the Global South,…
IMF approval of up to $54 million of emergency funding for Malawi is likely in the next couple of days,…
THE IMF on Monday reached a staff-level agreement with Somalia that will allow the release of about $10 million to…
THE African Development Bank Group’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative is launching its second call for…
AFRICA’S influence on issues of global importance remains far too narrow for a continent of 1.2 billion people who are…
GHANA’S President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has been assured that the $330 million Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal project, popularly referred…
SUB-SAHARAN Africa’s economic activity is expected to slow significantly in 2022 and remain relatively modest in 2023. A downturn in…
AFRICA’S annual exports are expected to double to $540bn by 2030 from a decade earlier, chiefly on shipments from Nigeria…
ONE would have thought that Zimbabweans would be united in their opposition to international sanctions, which were introduced more than…
UGANDA is home to 25 commercial banks, four microfinance deposit-taking institutions (MDIs), three credit institutions and more than 300 non-deposit-taking…
THE IMF at its annual meetings in Washington this week indicated increased support for economic recovery in Africa. The IMF…
ZAMBIA is hosting a two-day business summit in Lusaka this week to try to attract American investors to the country.…
CAMEROON and Nigeria have requested to join the Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI), a joint body spearheading the interests of…
AT least 54 developing countries globally, including 25 in sub-Saharan Africa, require immediate debt relief to avoid sliding into extreme…
IN the past two weeks, Kenya has taken advantage of a pilot programme by the Africa Continental Free Trade Area…
UNCTAD and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost their joint…
FRANCE is under fire in parts of West Africa for its alleged ‘stranglehold’ on the continent’s economy. Anti-French sentiment in Mali…
THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat based in Accra, the capital of Ghana, late Friday launched a guided…
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday that talks with Ghana’s government about a potential loan programme had been…