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IN Malawi, protesters and opposition supporters chanted and marched Thursday in the commercial capital, Blantyre, to protest the high cost…
A COALITION of Ghana’s ruling party members of parliament have called off demands that finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta be removed…
THE African Development Bank has approved a loan of €63.6 million to Senegal to implement the Agropole-Centre agro-industrial processing zone…
NEW research from Vodafone Group, Vodacom Group (https://www.Vodacom.com/), Safaricom, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) indicates that the successful…
THE world’s top cocoa producers, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, are boycotting meetings in Brussels this week of the World Cocoa…
SOMALI President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has urged the East African Community (EAC) to fast-track his country’s admission into the regional…
A MAJORITY of Ghana’s ruling party parliamentarians on Tuesday asked the president to sack finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta and his…
THE Mozambican government reaffirms its commitment to preventing and combating money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of…
ON a large factory floor in southwestern Benin, dozens of young people cut, stitch and assemble cotton shirts – part…
AFRICA’S richest man and CEO of the Dangote Group has urged the authorities to take tough measures against foreign textile…
THE IMF said on Friday that it had reached a staff-level agreement with Malawi for up to $88.3 million in…
THE African Union (AU) has called on African countries to mutually reinforce the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement…
THE African Development Bank has launched a multinational project to create jobs and improve livelihoods for youth in three African…
STREETS were quiet in the normally bustling heart of Accra’s central business district on Wednesday as traders in the Ghanaian…
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…