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JAPAN’S Daikin Industries will begin assembling air conditioners in Nigeria as it renews a push into Africa that had been…

THE Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu once said: ‘There comes a time when we need to stop just pulling people…

GHANA’S negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over a rescue package will be fast-tracked, the country’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta…

CHINA’S Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) would spur trade and investment cooperation between Africa and China after easing connectivity and…

A ROAD project constructed by a Chinese company was commissioned Monday in Cape Coast, the capital of Ghana’s Central Region.…

THE International Monetary Fund confirmed on Sunday that a staff team will visit Ghana this week to continue discussions with…

MINING companies in Ghana have pledged to sell at least 125,000 ounces of gold to Ghana’s central bank in the…

NEW figures from Kenya’s National Bureau of Statistics show the United States has overtaken Uganda as the largest buyer of…

THERE was a festive mood with music, food and decorations at Zimbabwe’s State House last Friday as Chinese investors signed…

THE next 12-18 months will be ‘very difficult’ for African banks as widespread inflation, currency devaluations and interest-rate hikes sweep…

CAMEROON is partnering with the Africa Finance Corporation to create infrastructure that will help transform the economy into a manufacturing…

IN emerging markets all across the globe, marginalized groups face limited access to both financial services and financial literacy. As…

SOVEREIGN debt default is ‘a real possibility’ for Ghana, and any kind of domestic debt restructuring could severely threaten the…

EXCHANGE rates are crucial in impacting the trade and economic performance of a country and often, they indirectly impact many different…

THE IMF says policy interventions of the past few months by authorities in Zimbabwe are in the right direction and…

GHANA’S economy expanded 4.8 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2022, data from the country’s statistics service showed on…

MORE than 100 economists and development experts on Friday called for asset manager BlackRock and other holders of Zambian bonds…

THE Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) said Friday that its cross-border passenger train services between Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and…

THE Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East Africa bloc, on Thursday launched a trade policy in order to boost…

ZAMBIA’S international bondholders have criticised the International Monetary Fund’s debt restructuring framework as ‘arbitrary’ and for excluding the country’s domestic…