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GHANA’S President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has been assured that the $330 million Boankra Integrated Logistics Terminal project, popularly referred…
SUB-SAHARAN Africa’s economic activity is expected to slow significantly in 2022 and remain relatively modest in 2023. A downturn in…
AFRICA’S annual exports are expected to double to $540bn by 2030 from a decade earlier, chiefly on shipments from Nigeria…
ONE would have thought that Zimbabweans would be united in their opposition to international sanctions, which were introduced more than…
UGANDA is home to 25 commercial banks, four microfinance deposit-taking institutions (MDIs), three credit institutions and more than 300 non-deposit-taking…
THE IMF at its annual meetings in Washington this week indicated increased support for economic recovery in Africa. The IMF…
ZAMBIA is hosting a two-day business summit in Lusaka this week to try to attract American investors to the country.…
CAMEROON and Nigeria have requested to join the Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI), a joint body spearheading the interests of…
AT least 54 developing countries globally, including 25 in sub-Saharan Africa, require immediate debt relief to avoid sliding into extreme…
IN the past two weeks, Kenya has taken advantage of a pilot programme by the Africa Continental Free Trade Area…
UNCTAD and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost their joint…
FRANCE is under fire in parts of West Africa for its alleged ‘stranglehold’ on the continent’s economy. Anti-French sentiment in Mali…
THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) secretariat based in Accra, the capital of Ghana, late Friday launched a guided…
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday that talks with Ghana’s government about a potential loan programme had been…
THE African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched the Afreximbank Academy (AFRACAD), a learning, knowledge, and networking hub designed to help…
SUB-SAHARAN Africa’s economy is set to grow 3.3 percent this year, down from 4.1 percent in 2021, the World Bank…
A MOROCCAN state agency has issued the first 10 permits for the use of cannabis in industry and medicine and…
COCOBOD, Ghana’s cocoa regulator, signed a $1.13bn syndicated loan on Monday with international banks to finance purchases for the upcoming…
THE global health and economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the economic foundations of the CEMAC zone in…
THE African Development Bank has approved a loan of $134.9 million in co-financing for the second phase of Namibia’s Governance…