BRITAIN is partnering with Kenya to build a new rail hub in the capital Nairobi, and its development arm CDC Group will invest $1bn in various sectors over the next five years, officials said on Tuesday. Britain, the former colonial…
AN integrated policy framework built around the energy transition could bring a wave of new sustainable energy investment to Africa, growing the region’s economy by 6.4 per cent by 2050, results of an analysis published last week by the International…
IN a ceremony held recently on the premises of the National Vocational Training Institute’s Headquarters at East Legon, near Accra, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut the sod for the construction of the first ultramodern Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) academy in…
KENYANS made 1.9 trillion mobile money transactions in the first 11 months of 2021, worth more than $55bn. The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) said that transactions in the first 11 months of 2021 were 20 percent up on the…
THE African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, African Export-Import (Afrexim) Bank, and other partners launched the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) on Thursday in a bid to boost the intra-African trade. The move followed the successful piloting of…
SIX of Seychelles’ most prominent citizens including the former First Lady Sarah Zarqani-René are facing charges in a corruption scandal involving $50 million of missing foreign aid. The money was a gift to the country 20 years ago from the…
NIGERIAN Government has lifted the ban on the micro-blogging site of Twitter in Nigeria following approval by President Muhammadu Buhari. This was disclosed by the Chairman, Technical Committee Nigeria-Twitter Engagement, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi. While making known the government’s decision in…
By ABDULLAHI RABIU, Kano KANO state Executive Council has approved the sum of N500, 000 million as counterpart fund for the implementation of a Six years World Bank assisted project tagged: Agro Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL). The State…
BARRICK Gold, which owns Mali’s biggest gold mine complex Loulo-Gounkoto, says its mines in the country have ‘thus far not been affected’ by sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States. The 15-state regional bloc imposed tough economic…
MALI’S army-dominated government has called for nationwide demonstrations on Friday against stringent sanctions imposed by the West Africa bloc ECOWAS over delayed elections. The Sahel state’s interim government stated Monday night that the sanctions – which include border closures and…
