ABOUT 1,500 women engaged in informal trade across Liberia and Sierra Leone’s border will soon receive training and mentorship to formalise their businesses, increase and stabilise their incomes, and create safer trading environments. The Mano River Union Secretariat will receive…
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) is aiming to raise $1bn to rapidly ramp up agricultural production in Africa and stave off a potential food crisis brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its president told Reuters on Friday. But the war,…
The office buildings acquisition is facilitating the expansion and diversification of Compass Capital’s real estate portfolio VANTAGE Capital (www.VantageCapital.co.za), Africa’s largest mezzanine fund manager, announced today that it has provided $10 million of mezzanine debt funding to Compass Capital, a…
FOUR Algerian and Chinese firms have announced a nearly $7bn deal to relaunch a phosphate mining project set to produce millions of tonnes of fertiliser annually. Under the new deal, Algeria’s Asmidal, a subsidiary of state oil firm Sonatrach, and…
BLUE, yellow, green: As night falls, the dome of the Kigali conference centre lights up, resplendent in the colours of Rwanda’s flag as it aims to attract all eyes on the capital, and beyond. In less than a decade, the…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has predicted agriculture and economic boom following the coming on stream of the $2.5 billion Dangote Fertiliser Plant in, Ibeju-Lekki Lagos. Buhari spoke while inaugurating the plant – the world’s second-largest – with an installed capacity of…
KOGI State Internal Revenue Service (KGIRS) on Wednesday, March 17, 2022, sealed the network facilities of two telecommunication companies operating in the state for their refusal to remit tax liabilities worth over Three Hundred and Sixty Million, and Thirty Five…
MULTICHOICE has increased the prices of its DStv and GOtv packages in Nigeria. This was announced in a statement on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, stating the rising costs of inflation and business operations led to the increment in the prices…
THE government of Rwanda is moving ahead with plans to go into the medical marijuana business. The Rwanda New Times reports that the government has dedicated 134 hectares to cannabis production and is in the process of having the site developed. The…
GHANA central bank announced its biggest ever interest rate hike on Monday as it seeks to slow rampant inflation that threatens to create a debt crisis in one of West Africa’s largest economies. The Bank of Ghana (BoG) raised its…
