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THE flagship edition of The Africa Prosperity Dialogue Series is taking place from January 26 to 28 in Ghana, which…

  IN 2020, African fintech companies brought in about $4bn  in total. In 2025, one of the world’s most reputable…

AFTER US Treasury Secretary (finance minister) Janet Yellen called China a ‘barrier’ to debt reform in Africa this week, Chinese…

THE Bank of Ghana, wrestling with runaway inflation, is expected to deliver another hefty interest rate hike at its meeting…

NIGERIA opened a billion-dollar Chinese-built deep seaport in Lagos on Monday, which is expected to ease congestion at the country’s…

  MAMA Money, a rapidly growing fintech that offers cross-border money transfer and banking services has partnered with AFC Commercial…

GHANA this week for a third time extended a deadline for Ghanaian bondholders to exchange their government bonds for lower…

RUSSIA’S war against Ukraine is hitting Africans particularly hard by exacerbating food insecurity and putting an unnecessary drag on the…

THE African continent is seeing a shift in its economic landscape, with Zimbabwe recently banning all raw lithium exports after…

AFRICA is set to outperform the rest of the world in economic growth over the next two years, with real…

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi criticised a $6.2bn minerals-for-infrastructure contract with China, saying the world’s largest producer…

ETHIOPIA’S deputy finance minister said on Thursday that rumours the birr currency would be devalued were ‘completely unfounded,’ as the…

ALL member countries of the G20 group of economic powers are on board for a restructuring of Ghana’s debt and…

KENYA plans to link its tax collection system to mobile financial platforms to weed out tax evaders and boost revenue…

MORE than two dozen aid and campaign groups have called for international creditors to cancel a large portion of Ghana’s…

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is headed to Senegal, Zambia and South Africa this week to discuss trade expansion, investment…

  IN the last decade, the cross-border remittance market has undergone tremendous changes evolving from traditional offerings to much faster, easier…

IN 2010, as South Africa prepared to host the first ever Soccer World Cup on African soil, a cry went…

UGANDAN officials have confirmed switching from a Chinese to a Turkish company to build a proposed $2bn railway line linking…

GHANA has again extended the deadline to register for its domestic debt exchange, this time to January 31, Finance Minister…