The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) has awarded a grant of 10 billion CFA francs to Togo to support its small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This envelope is accompanied by a second financing of 200 million FCFA, intende...
The National Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG) launched, this Friday, the process for the award of oil exploration concessions dubbed 'Tender 2023', for the exploration of oil in the onshore basins of the Lower Congo, in Zaire Province, and...
Morocco will procure a total of 2.5 million tonnes of soft wheat from France at the end of the marketing campaign which will end in June 2024. The announced stock would then account for almost half of the imports made by the North African country ...
Zambia has officially started negotiations with its Eurobond holders on the restructuring of more than $3 billion of debt. The move comes after the completion of negotiations with official creditors, who plan to sign a memorandum of understanding ...
Organized with the support of the Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture, in partnership with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Business France, the Banque Publique d'Investissement (Bpifrance) and the Inst...
An alliance of nations said on Tuesday members would raise $12 billion to protect coral reefs from threats such as pollution and overfishing, but experts warned the funding would only be a drop in the ocean unless broader climate risks are address...
The Zambian government will introduce a tax on mobile money transactions. The proposed tax only applies to person-to-person transactions. It ranges from 8 ngwee ($0.0038) to 1.80 kwacha ($0.085), depending on the value of the transaction. This pro...
While the country's external debt stocks reached $165.36 billion at the end of March 2023, Egypt will have to repay $29.23 billion in external debts in 2024. The country's external debt service is then expected to decline to 19.43 billion in 2025 ...
Sydney: Sydney's trains will completely shut down for four days from Thursday as the network's employees are set to go on strike amid a pay dispute with the state government, the government of Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW) said on Tuesday...
Luanda: The president of Portugal's FC Porto, André Villas-Boas, arrived in Luanda on Tuesday morning for a three-day working visit aimed at strengthening institutional relationships with Angola's sports bodies. Villas-Boas expressed the emotional sig...
Luanda: The search for additional victims from a boat sinking incident that occurred last Saturday off Luanda Island has officially concluded as of 6 pm on Tuesday, according to Wilson Baptista, the spokesman for the Civil Protection and Fire Services...
ESKOM Stage 4 load shedding devastating for Western Cape economy; Emergency services at the ready.Responding to the latest announcement by Eskom that it will be implementing stage 4 load shedding from today until Friday, Anton Bredell, Western Cape Min...
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is appalled at the mob storming of Accra-based UTV during a live broadcast and demands swift and severe retribution.The brazen attack occurred shortly after the start of the station’s United Showbiz programme...
NAIROBI – The Kenyan government is taking action to reclaim public land that has been unlawfully acquired by private developers in the Western region. Western Regional Commissioner Samson Irungu Macharia has issued a stern warning that all encroachers...
