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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has approved a €40 million framework agreement with the ODDO BHF Aktiengesellschaft, a Franco-German financial services group with a longstanding track record and expertise in trade financing. The account in question would be utilized to enhance the chances for Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) and trades to facilitate them in a bid...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- Ghana has on March 3, 2021 signed a trade partnership agreement with UK that secures tariff-free trade and provides a platform for greater economic and cultural cooperation. The deal supports a trading relationship worth £1.2 billion and reinstates the terms of the economic partnership agreement between the two sides when the UK was part of the EU. It means Ghanaian products including bananas, tinned tuna and cocoa...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- As rampant smuggling of different products threatens to cripple the local manufacturing industry, economics professor at the Polytechinic —a constituent college of the University of Malawi— Betchani Tchereni, has urged government to seriously consider strong measures that can help to curb the malpractice. Professor Tchereni at the Polytechnic – a constituent college of the University of Malawi...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Customers in Singapore and across the world will now have easy access to some of Rwanda’s traditional products following a move by the country’s leading online supermarket, RedMart, to trade them online. The development was announced by Jean de Dieu Uwihanganye, Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Singapore on Monday, March 1. According to Amb. Uwihanganye, the traditional products including coffee will also debut...