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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Steam bursts and timber litters the street as opponent proponents set up blockades to challenge against primary presidential election results in Ratoma district of Conakry, Guinea October 21, 2020. With thirty-seven of thirty-eight electoral districts tallied, Conde’, 82 received 2.4 million votes, versus 1.26 million for his nearest rival opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo. “We...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Ibrahima Nour Eddine Diagne, Director of GAINDE 2000 and President of the African Performance Institute – has proposed that e-commerce could be wielded as a control to improve intra-African trade. He noted in the Dakar Forum on the African Continental Free Trade Area (FTACAF). An announcement by his office referred to Diagne as developing the theme ECommerce, which alternatives to expand...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Moroccan telecommunications operator Maroc Telecom achieved a turnover of more than MAD 27.49 billion ($2.99 billion) during the first nine months of 2020, up 0.7%. The result is due to the strong resilience of international activities, which partially offset the decline in turnover in Morocco despite the COVID-19 crisis, the company said. Revenues from activities in Morocco amounted to more than MAD 15.72...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Thika-based juice maker Del Monte Limited has announced plans to boost its female workforce to 10,000 in the next four years. Del Monte is a Kenyan nutriment refining corporation that administers in the cultivation, production and canning of pineapple products. The fruit processor – Thika based beverage producer; Del Monte Limited that presently hires 6,500 out of which 2,900 are women, has...