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- Uganda challenges Britain amid corruption sanctions dispute
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- Gabon debate: proposal to suspend political parties
- Ethiopia disappointed by EU visa restrictions
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- Nigeria raises govt worker salaries by 35% amid crisis
- Call for faster ratification of Africa’s human rights instruments
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INVESTING in research and development (R&D) by African countries will deliver sustainable industrialisation and economic diversification on the continent, says…
ETHIOPIA earned $413.82 million from horticulture exports in the first seven months of the current Ethiopian Fiscal Year 2022/2023 which…
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday decried Western sanctions on Zimbabwe, saying the punitive measures have led to external…
ZIMBABWE’S president said on Thursday that the government was committed to a plan to clear more than $6bn of external…
RATINGS agency Fitch on Tuesday downgraded Ghana’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating to ‘restricted default’, after the country missed the…
THE Ugandan government will not engage in any external borrowing in the financial year that starts in July to ease…
KENYA’S tourism industry, one of the East African nation’s top sources of hard currency, surged 83 percent in 2022 to…
THE African continent has the capacity to achieve 7-10 per cent yearly growth by taking advantage of its population to…
BOTSWANA has deposited its instrument ratifying the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement with African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa…
HEAVILY indebted African countries are getting a raw deal from the international financial system which charges them ‘extortionate’ interest rates,…
AS African leaders prepare for their summit in Addis Ababa over the coming weekend, they are being urged to ensure…
ACTING Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Antonio Pedro has urged African Union (AU) member…
NIGERIAN President Muhammadu Buhari said Thursday that the country’s redesigned currency would bolster the upcoming presidential election, appealing for an…
INTRA-AFRICAN cross-border remittances and digital wallet company, EziPay, has partnered with digital payments gateway MFS Africa to bring last-mile connectivity…
GHANA’S consumer inflation slowed slightly to 53.6 percent year-on-year in January from a more than two-decade high of 54.1 percent…
BOTSWANA’S president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, is threatening to walk away from a diamond mining deal with industry giant De Beers unless…
THE Ghanaian finance ministry said its domestic debt exchange programme (DDEP) had closed on Tuesday with more than 80 percent…
AFRICAN women and girls are discussing the harassment and discrimination challenges they face trying to conduct cross-border business under the…
GHANA’S bilateral lenders are discussing the formation of an official creditor committee, a first step needed to engage in debt…
VOTERS in Nigeria go to the polls on February 25 and international investors are cautiously hopeful that whoever is elected…