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Egypt on Saturday finalized a $150 million loan guarantee from Britain following a visit from British foreign minister, Boris Johnson.
According to a statement from Britain’s foreign Office, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the British foreign minister held discussions …
Continue readingTunisia plans to sell stakes in three state-owned banks this year and cup up to 10,000 jobs in the public sector as part of reforms requested by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as the body has frozen the …
Continue readingThe Gambia is set to receive $60 million in budget support from the World Bank. This was revealed on Saturday by the Bank’s president for Africa, Makhtar Diop, during a meeting with the newly installed government.
Diop told journalists after …
Continue readingAfter promising to revive Ghana’s economic growth, president Nana Akufo-Addo is now faced with the task of handling a 1.6 billion hole in the budget and a deficit twice as high as expected.
In 2014 Ghana’s economy was among the …
Continue readingNigeria’s federal government said on Sunday that its Social Investment Programmes, SIP, had a plan to hire 350,000 more unemployed graduates under the N-Power Volunteer Corps in 2017.
According to the Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity to the …
Continue readingIn other to cut costs expended on maintaining government quarters, the Kaduna State Government has decided to sell its non-essential residential quarters. The houses are to be sold by means of a public auction based on their open-market value. The …
Continue readingNo! Not aircraft pilots, donor pilot projects. The world of development is littered with “pilots.” Demonstration projects that show it can be done. We know that with donor funding, donor expertise, discrete initiatives and clearly defined “results” certain things can …
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Nigerians are rightly outraged by the xenophobic attacks by some South African against Africans from other parts of the continent. The attacks bring shame to the country of Nelson Mandela. In condemning the attacks, there should not be the mistaken …
Continue readingRecently, DW published an article by environmental activist Joshua Amponsem which raised a discussion on plastic ban in Ghana. As the conversation grows on whether Ghana should ban plastics or not, I will like to draw attention to the possible …
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