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The Zambian government is set to initiate a daily levy of 30 Ngwee (about $0.03) on Internet voice calls. The new tariff proposal was contained in a press statement issued after the government cabinet meeting early this week.
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World acclaimed development policy experts, economists and entrepreneurs will converge on Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city and commercial nerve centre, to discuss how countries in Africa can collaborate for peace and irreversible economic growth. They will meet at the African …
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One of the major problems facing South Africa is anti-immigrant violence. The seriousness of this problem was highlighted in a recent report on hate crime in the country.
These kinds of hate crime discourage long-term integration of international migrants. It …
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At a period the Nigerian government was complaining about the excessiveness of a abusive unit in its police force codenamed “Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)”, the same police unit was forcing a journalist with a Nigeria-based online newspaper, Premium Times, …
Continue readingTwo key public figures have been arrested by Kenyan authorities on suspicion of corruption over allocation of land for the East African country’s new $3 billion flagship Nairobi-Mombasa railway.
Chairman of Kenyan National Land Commission, Mohammed Abdalla Swazuri, was one …
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The African National Congress and President Cyril Ramaphosa appear determined to lower the fuel price – in the midst of raising it – with Business Tech reporting that government is “actively seeking ways” to find a solution to the problem. …
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In Africa, especially in Nigeria, over 80 per cent of the agricultural produce comes through small-scale and subsistence farming. The farmers mostly comprise women in the rural areas. In Nigeria, women make up the largest number of the workforce in …
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