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By Abdul Rahman Bangura–  NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Zimbabwe slates to stabilize a base metal refinery in 2025 and a valuable metals refinery by 2027 to distill platinum from all the state’s platinum mines, according to the Mines Minister – Winston Chitando. Coming up, prior to a parliamentary committee on Mines and Mining Development, Chitando explained, meetings between his ministry, the Chamber of Mines and Platinum Producers Association are taking place with respect to prepping of the refineries. “The platinum players have made a commitment that by 2025 there will be a base metal refinery and by 2027 there will be a precious metal refinery and that position has not changed, it’s still on course,” Chitando noted. He announced, the platinum creators...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura–  NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The National Bank of Malawi (NBM) declared, it is willing to give allotment to enable them recognize their visions of building a socio economic viability for their enterprises that will entirely effect on their neighborhoods and the economy at large. Talking at the 2020 ICT Association of Malawi (ICTAM) meeting on December11th, 2020 in Mangochi, NBM plc Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Commercial Officer – Harold Jiya stated, NBM plc exclusively understands and respects the climacteric position that innovations and technology play in Malawi’s developmental calendar. “NBM plc has a continuing partnership with ICTAM on ICT innovation. This Investment in ICT development by the National Bank of...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura–  NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The Pan-African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, hauled two highly wanted honors at the Business Day’s Bank and other Financial Institutions Awards (BAFI) achieving the Bank of the Year and the International Bank of the Year at the stunning scene carried over the weekend. The bank strike other strong challengers – Zenith Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank, Access Bank and First Bank – to grasp the two top categories in a well-attended exhibition comprising of Bank CEO’s, Captains of Industries and Senior financial executives. UBA won the ‘Bank of the Year’ in honor of UBA’s constant undertaking in transcending its counterparts using a composite of financial metrics, strategic...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura–  NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone-  A unique trade intelligence mechanism that facilitates corporations to effortlessly dig through and describe in relation trade alternatives across Africa has been published before the advent of trading under the new African Continental Free Trade Area. The African Trade Observatory was rolled out by the African Union (AU), the European Union (EU) Commission and the International Trade Centre (ITC) at an AU summit on December 5th, 2020. ‘Trade information is vital to the promotion of trade in Africa,’ AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry, H.E. Amb. Albert Muchanga asserted. The AfCFTA decreases trade impediments and strengthen regional economic integration. Trading under the continent-wide...