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A major Chinese construction firm has sealed a deal with Egypt to partly sponsor an ambitious plan to build a new administrative and business capital for the north African country. The project would make president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s announcement in
A series of attacks on oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta has pushed Nigeria’s output of crude close to a 22-year low, according to Reuters data, putting intense pressure on the country’s finances. Shell workers at Nigeria’s Bonga oilfield in …
Continue readingMore than 1,200 people are gathering in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city for the World Economic Forum on Africa which starts today May 11. They are from more than 70 countries and they represent business, government, academia, civil society, media and …
Continue readingThe World Bank has assured it will work with the East African Community (EAC) partner states to help the economic community achieve full integration. The World Bank programme Manager for South Sudan, Jean Lubega-Kyazze told Xinhua in Nairobi …
Continue readingThe $5 billion Batoka Gorge hydropower project Zambia and Zimbabwe plan to build on their shared border could start producing by 2023 and will generate electricity at a cheaper cost than solar or coal, Zimbabwean Energy Minister Samuel Undenge said.…
Continue readingAccording to public finance experts, Nigeria’s federally collected revenue from 1999 to 2014 stood at $690 billion. But you don’t have to live in Nigeria to know N138 trillion worth of human and infrastructural development does not exist anywhere. So …
Continue readingKenyans studying in South Africa will be issued with a long-term visa in line with the duration of their courses. The renewals of such visas will also be done in South Africa and the students will not have to travel …
Continue readingIf there is any lesson the Federal Government must learn from the lingering petrol crisis, in the unabated long queues at our petrol stations, it is that that a government cannot substitute itself for the market no matter the depth …
Continue readingJust like Leicester City. This will probably become a cliché, as a descriptive line for those who achieve the improbable, especially in sports. The City of Leicester and its stakeholders will not be bothered about the wrong pronunciations; they are …
Continue readingOn Saturday, president of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta used a torch to set ablaze a giant pyre of ivory, one of 11 similar mounds built in Nairobi National Park that will burn for almost a week. It was part of an
