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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone - Theophilus Mutui – Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) said, an audit team from Malaysia’s National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO) surmised pest-risk and field examinations at the integrated agro-business firm Kakuzi, in Murang’a county, central Kenya last week as part of the bilateral betrothals. He announced, local avocado farmers and exporters would pretty...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone - This is according to the Airports Council International rankings, Entebbe airport handled 65, 115 tones of cargo is 2021, coming in 6th position. Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport is ranked 1st, with 363, 204 tones of cargo, followed by Egypt’s Cairo International Airport with Airport. Olivier Tambo Airport in South Africa 3rd with 304, 018 while Addis Ababa Airport 4th, with 226,...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra Ghana- The head of the Africa Investment Forum, African Development Bank Senior Director Chinelo Anohu, has called for stronger strategic partnerships and greater involvement of African sovereign wealth funds to rebuild the continent’s economies following the Covid-19 pandemic. Anohu made the call while giving a keynote address to Brown Capital Management Forum’s third high-level meeting for Africa sovereign wealth...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone - Ashok Chakravarti, a fellow of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), on Thursday told “the issue of the currency board is being looked at”. Lecturing an economic meeting in the resort city of Victoria Falls, Chakravarti expanded that “it is being considered” to support the embattled Zimbabwean dollar. He asserted that, Zimbabwe would prefer about $700 million to back...