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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- Invest Africa, the business and investment platform for African markets, and Absa Group, one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups, have announced a strategic collaboration, aimed at supporting the development of business and investment on the continent, and the growth of Absa Group as a leading African retail, corporate and investment bank. The new alliance combines Absa Group’s position as experts in providing a gateway to opportunities in Africa, with Invest Africa’s well-established network, in order to promote trade and investment across the African continent. The collaboration will include a programme of initiatives such as events, podcasts and reports, focused on the growth of business and investment in...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Unity Bank Plc has promised to provide additional funding to about 120,000 smallholder maize farmers in the 2021 wet season farming in the country. Mrs. Tomi Somefun – The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Unity Bank Plc published a goodwill statement at the unveiling of the first National Maize Pyramids and flag-off of wet season farming programmes held over the weekend in Katsina. Exemplified by the Head of Agribusiness, Unity Bank Plc, Mrs. Patricia Chinwe Ahunanya, Somefun asserted the extra funding for 2021 wet season husbandry is in tandem with to the bank’s obligation towards supporting maize farmers in the country. She expressed that, the strategic alliance with the Maize Association of...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- President Ndayishimiye brought in the statements after a tour at the new state-of-theart Picfare Industries plant in Kampala Industrial and Business Park, Namanve, where he was displayed products rove from scholastic materials to apparel. President Ndayishimiye mumbled he has witnessed first-hand Uganda’s investment environment and seen how hard the investors are working and coaxed them to suppose Burundi as an objective for trade and investment. He told that Burundi has enormous investment opportunities in sectors like agriculture, industry, extractives, and tourism, as well as trade. He expanded that Burundi is now a peaceful country with the natives working hard to develop, adding that Ugandans should...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Gold biggest foreign exchange revenue, it could no longer export raw gold. The refinery can process up to 480kg of gold per day. Professor Florens Luoga – Bank Governor of Tanzania has applauded the State Mining Corporation (Stamico) for permitting Tanzania to commence sifting gold to international criteria. Professor Luoga exhorted the refinery to develop an accreditation certificate to permit the Bank to start purchasing refined gold as part of its foreign budgets. “Given the production capacity of this plant, I believe that it will be able to refine all locally mined gold as well as those from neighboring countries. The final product will bear the originality mark from Tanzania, and hence promote...