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By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – The ECA Executive Secretary – Vera Songwe, told African Central Bank Governors that concerns around Africa’s rising sovereign debt should not focus so much about its level, both rather the ability to pay for it. Elaborating on this point, she emphasized that managing debt dynamics well is all about implementing good fiscal policy which in turn is linked to effective monetary policy. Songwe was speaking at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the...

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- SOUTH SUDAN has commenced the process of transferring cash to some 288,000 girls in order to keep them in school amid high school dropouts due to more than five years of conflict. Team Leader of Girls in Education, South Sudan (GESS), Akuja De Garang, supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) said the second phase of the programme will provide cash transfers to more than 288,000 girls across the country...

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- REPORTS FROM Tanzania has indicated that plans are far advanced to establish Nyerere National Park in the Selous Game Reserve, a UNESCO heritage site. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Adolf Mkenda, said the ministry will officially table a resolution in the next Parliamentary session for the establishment of the Nyerere National Park in the Selous Game Reserve. “The ministry will deploy a...

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- MANY GOVERNMENTS are making progress in the fight against tobacco use, but the World Health Organization’s latest tobacco report shows more could be done to help people quit the addictive substance. ‘Quitting tobacco is one of the best things any person can do for their own health,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a press release published on Friday. About 5 billion people, or 65 percent of the...