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MEMBERS of Ghana’s main traders’ union GUTA, stormed Accra’s shopping district on Monday closing down more than 100 foreign-run shops.…
KENYA plans to revive the cotton industry in order to boost the overall performance of the textile sector, aiming to…
MOZAMBIQUE’S government plans to appeal a South African court’s decision to revoke the planned extradition of former finance minister Manuel…
UGANDA will begin refurbishing its century-old rail network this month to boost bulk cargo transportation, after failing to secure $2.2bn…
THE United States has advised Cameroon to respect human rights in order to be reinstated as a beneficiary of the…
NIGERIA will keep its land borders closed to trade until at least January 31, 2020, the customs spokesman told Reuters…
GROWTH in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to rise to 3.6 percent in 2020 from 3.2 percent in 2019, according to…
REVELATIONS that authorities in France are investigating senior officials of the Angolan government following the discovery of evidence of impropriety in the…
A NEW World Bank report urges Kenya to reform legislation governing the digital economy in order to keep pace with…
ENTREPRENEURSHIP can empower women economically, transform their lives socially and boost their contribution to their households. This is particularly important…
CHINA and Mauritius signed a free trade agreement (FTA) in mid-October, making it China’s first FTA with an African nation.…
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) and the New Development Bank have signed an agreement to promote new impact projects to…
CHINESE financial institutions have suspended the funding of three big infrastructural projects totalling $1.324bn after the government of Zimbabwe raided…
NIGERIA recently partially closed its border with Benin in an effort to stem the smuggling of rice. It then went…
CONSTRUCTION of the Ghana-Burkina Railway Interconnectivity project is on track. The Ghana Ministry of Railway Development confirmed the report, saying…
US Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky is leading a trade mission to West Africa from October 28-31, to help…
Ghana’s economic growth is expected to rise to around 7 percent this year from 6.3 percent in 2018, boosted…
REGULATORY reforms in Togo and Nigeria propelled the sub-Saharan African economies to among the most improved in the World Bank’s…
CHINA Development Bank (CBD) will provide a $629 million financing facility to enable a consortium led by China Harbour Engineering…
RWANDA’S President Paul Kagame on Monday officially inaugurated a dry port, Kigali Logistics Platform, Rwanda’s largest inland cargo handling facility,…