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BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- Uganda Ministry of Health has launched a three-month blood donation drive following an increase of Anaemia cases due to an upsurge of malaria in the east African country. The minister of State for Primary Healthcare, Joyce Moriku Kaducu while launching the drive said the campaign targets to raise the total units of blood to 50,000 by...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone-  29th of August, 2019 the Senate Committee on Internal Affairs told plenary that, hundreds of Presidential appointees, local government employees as well as “supplementary employees” have worked for several months without salaries, “because hundreds of them are yet to be placed on government’s payroll”. The Chairman on...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –   NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Sterling Bank Plc has put into final form to organize an Agriculture Summit in Abuja between 5th and 6th of September 2019. The theme is being focused on “Agriculture – Your Piece of The Trillion-Dollar Economy,” according to the bank, it seeks to actualize the $1 trillion African agribusiness economy plan by...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- The IFC – a member of the World Bank Group has pronounced approximately $15 million loan to Stanbic Bank Zambia, a wholly owned Subsidiary of Standard Bank Group. This investment will aid Stanbic Bank expand its lending to small and medium enterprises; with at least 25% of the loan ear marked for women owned...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu-   NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone-  On August 28th, the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7) is in motion in Yokohama. Commencing on 28th August 2019 to 30th August 2019, TICAD 7 is being co-chaired by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and H.E Abdel Fattah el-Sisi – President of Egypt. This conference will be...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –     NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- As record has it, China has many lessons for African nations, in how it has alleviated over 850 million people out of poverty over the last forty years, partly by expanding infrastructure rapidly with a focus on roads, ports and factories. Though China has had a relationship with Africa, that goes back some...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Kenya exported its first ever batch of crude oil on Monday, with President Uhuru Kenyatta declaring the shipment of 200,000 barrels a “special moment” in the country’s history. The President released the Kenyan flag athwart a tanker at the Indian Ocean Port of Mombasa that will be carrying the oil to Asia. “There are...