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- Rwandan activist challenges Kagame in presidential bid
- Ghana’s Supreme Court hears anti-LGBTQ law challenge
- Ghana’s April inflation rate falls to 25%
- Kenyan doctors end strike: return-to-work deal signed
- Sierra Leone & Russia explore nuclear energy
- Op-Ed: Nigeria’s future: tackling growth challenges
- Ethiopia’s coffee exports yield $835m revenue in 9 months
- Malawi workers deported from Israel for job shift
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THE advent of Covid-19 has challenged the ability of traditional economic sectors to sustain local economies, particularly in Africa, write…
THE United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Thursday announced the launch of Africa’s first-of-its-kind continental tool that offers…
MOZAMBIQUE’S business sector reported a loss of $453 million in the first half of this year 020 due to the…
MESHACK Otieno cut and took measurements on metal bars meant to make a bed frame in his open-air workshop domiciled…
WEST Africa’s largest country, Niger, is landlocked and has a vast amount of natural resources including uranium, whose extraction accounts…
STANDARD Chartered Bank and Airtel Africa have partnered in an attempt to drive financial inclusion across Africa by providing customers…
COVID-19 has spurred massive changes in how the world works, learns and does business—changes made possible by the internet and…
GHANA expects cocoa output of around 900,000 tonnes in the 2020/2021 season, up 5.8 percent from the forecast for 2019/2020,…
Although African governments have been largely successful in mitigating the social impacts of the Coronavirus outbreak, these past few months…
NIGERIA has become a full member of the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI). The country’s membership comes at an opportune…
ANGOLAN billionaire Isabel dos Santos will leave her job in the administration of telecoms operator Unitel amid ongoing tensions between…
THE African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) has announced the launch of the MSME Academy, in partnership with Ecobank Group. Spearheaded…
GERMAN carmaker Volkswagen AG has started assembling cars in Ghana following a partial government ban on imports of used cars…
THE European Investment Bank (EIB) and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) are directing €300 million ($355 million) to support the…
AFRICA’S wildlife tourism industry, which usually generates $29bn a year and employs 3.6 million people, is under threat as the…
RWANDA’S commercial motorists, commonly known as motorcycle taxis, will begin to adopt cashless payment services to promote cashless economy, the…
BRITAIN has begun moving its economic relations with Africa back to pre-pandemic normality, its Africa Minister James Duddridge said during…
ZIMBABWE’S finance minister Mthuli Ncube has told sceptical farmers that his government will pay them out in hard currency for…
A MUCH-AWAITED report by an Independent Review Panel has completely exonerated the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina…
A PANDEMIC-DELAYED African free trade deal, if fully implemented, could boost incomes across the continent, pull millions out of poverty…