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By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- The Government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) is at the threshold of signing a $ 30 million concessional loan agreement with a Chinese Export and Import Bank. Mohamed Rado Swaray- Minister of Information and Communication on...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- The African Development Bank Group on Monday 6th of August, 2019 signed $ 4.8 Million institutional financial support to the African Union (AU) for implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The bank pronounced in a...

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- THE ETHIOPIAN government has disclosed the repatriation of some 137,300 Ethiopian nationals, including prisoners and illegal migrants, from different foreign countries during the past one year. In addition to the repatriation of some 112,600...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Fire boats perform during the inauguration ceremony of the new container terminal in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Namibia’s ambitious effort to become an international trade hub and transition from one phase to another advanced...

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- A DEBATE has currently re-surfaced over the nationalization of South Africa’s Central Bank after the ruling African National Congress (ANC) threatened to put the bank ‘in the hands of the people of South Africa.’ The ANC’s...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- The Economic Commission for Africa and the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Tunisia on Monday 29th July 2019 and on Wednesday the 31 July in Tunisia a meeting held at Sfax, the National Forum on the African Continental...

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...

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,...

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...

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...