Africa

Zimbabwe has concluded a fourth Structured Dialogue Platform meeting on debt clearance with creditors and development partners. President Emmerson Mnangagwa of #Zimbabwe, Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, Joaquim A. Chissano, former President of #Mozambique, Constantino G. D. N. Chiwenga, Vice President of Zimbabwe, government ministers, development partners …

President of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, has said that for Africa to make the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) work, we must reduce the costs on the continent, to trade with ourselves and with the global community. She stressed that the costs African exporters experience …

If the AfCFTA is implemented, trade barriers removed, long trade barriers removed and logistics transportation improved, intra continental can grow by 53% Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, stated that Africa must focus on reducing Trade Barriers, regional supply chains, economic diversification and focus on youth-led …

The Federal government has approved for implementation the first ever Nigeria investment policy (NInP), while adopting a new National Automotive Industry Development Plan (NADIP) that would span through 2023-2033. Government acknowledged that Nigeria Investment Policy would give investors more comfort and attract more investment into the economy. Both the national …

When we started Feed the Hungry project, we were not fully familiar with the grim reality of how a toxic cocktail of conflict, climate change, and the government’s failure to provide basic amenities has already left millions of people in Africa exposed to food price shocks and vulnerable to further …

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Faculty of Law building, University of Calabar (UNICAL) 11 years after it was started. The project was facilitated by Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, leader of the 7th Senate, who represented Cross River Central from 2003 to 2015. President Buhari, while inaugurating the project on Saturday …

The Federal Commissioner, National Population Commission, Dr Abdulmalik Durunguwa, has assured Nigerians that the 2023 Census will address the myriad of problems bedevilling the country. Durunguwa, representing Kaduna State at the commission, stated this during a chat with members of the Southern Kaduna Journalists Forum in Abuja on Friday. He …

Some 40 kilometers south of the Rwandan capital of Kigali in the Bugesera District, construction vehicles and high-visibility vests swarm across an arid expanse of land. Here, two strips of tarmac are the cornerstone of a $2 billion airport, whose developers want it to be the jewel in the crown …

A new report has revealed that African immigrants in the United Kingdom are struggling to pay bills as they are most affected by the persistent rising cost of living crisis. Vanguard cited the report published on Wednesday by an African communications service community disclosed that many African residents in the …

The Federal Government on Sunday gave a breakdown of the $1.2m spent on the bus fare to evacuate stranded Nigerians from war-torn Sudan to Egypt borders for onward airlifting to Nigeria. Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, the Permanent Secretary of the Humanitarian Affairs Ministry and Chair of the Situation Room on evacuation of …