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Senegal will soon have the largest solar power plant in West Africa. The country will receive a $40 million loan from French development agency PROPARCO to be repaid over 18-years for the kick-start of the project.

Close to 250,000 residents …

China is to take over the management and operations of Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara), in a major plan that will herald privitisation of the struggling corporation, The Citizen can reveal. A technical team from Tanzania, Zambia and China is putting …

As regional and western powers met in Nigeria to craft a strategy over the fight against Boko Haram, one thing was certain – the Islamist group must be defeated at all costs. France is leading the pack and has pledged …

Tunisia and Libya have reached an agreement for the resumption of trade from Monday, at the border post of Ras Jedir. The agreement provides for the establishment of a single customs duty for the goods and of a Joint Monitoring …

The European Union will give Burundi, which has been rocked by a year of unrest, direct support for health and nutrition programs worth 55 million euros ($62.4 million), the continental bloc said.

An initiative worth 40 million euros will boost …

The U.S. Agency for International Development said it will donate almost $128 million to support more than 10 million Ethiopians suffering from the country’s worst drought in half a century.

The funds will pay for food, water, malnutrition treatment, mobile …

As a sign of the warming of relations between Algiers and Paris, the two countries signed on Tuesday in the Algerian capital cooperation agreements directly affecting social areas. A total of nine agreements were signed which aim to boost bilateral …

Some $290 million USD in funding is desperately needed to address the drought-related food crisis affecting some 4.5 million people in Zimbabwe, the United Nations warned this week. The agency is looking to plug a 290 million dollar funding gap …