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By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Steam bursts and timber litters the street as opponent proponents set up blockades to challenge against primary presidential election results in Ratoma district of Conakry, Guinea October 21, 2020. With thirty-seven of thirty-eight electoral districts tallied, Conde’, 82 received 2.4 million votes, versus 1.26 million for his nearest rival opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo. “We are satisfied with the first results which give us hope and confidence for a certain victory,” Conde spokesman Tibou Kamara intimated to the press. Conde’s decision to run for a third term has provoked reiterated uprisings over the past year, occurring in dozens of deaths, involving at least thirteen in melees...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Ibrahima Nour Eddine Diagne, Director of GAINDE 2000 and President of the African Performance Institute – has proposed that e-commerce could be wielded as a control to improve intra-African trade. He noted in the Dakar Forum on the African Continental Free Trade Area (FTACAF). An announcement by his office referred to Diagne as developing the theme ECommerce, which alternatives to expand intra-African trade, emphasizing the desire to provide special notoriety to excellence innovation in electronic business transactions in the context of the culmination of the Continental Free Trade Area (FTACAF). He differed weak e-commerce, which produces many transactions but very small value-added, with strong e-commerce...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Moroccan telecommunications operator Maroc Telecom achieved a turnover of more than MAD 27.49 billion ($2.99 billion) during the first nine months of 2020, up 0.7%. The result is due to the strong resilience of international activities, which partially offset the decline in turnover in Morocco despite the COVID-19 crisis, the company said. Revenues from activities in Morocco amounted to more than MAD 15.72 billion ($1.7 billion) over the first nine months of 2020, down 3.6%. However, Maroc Telecom’s net income group share dropped by 2.6% at the end of the first nine months of 2020. In numbers, Maroc Telecom’s net income group share stood at MAD 4.52 billion ($491.6 million). Operating income before depreciation and...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Thika-based juice maker Del Monte Limited has announced plans to boost its female workforce to 10,000 in the next four years. Del Monte is a Kenyan nutriment refining corporation that administers in the cultivation, production and canning of pineapple products. The fruit processor – Thika based beverage producer; Del Monte Limited that presently hires 6,500 out of which 2,900 are women, has partnered with the United Nations Women Health Empowerment Program in the female recruitment plan. The group’s Communication Manager – Margaret Nyoro asserted. And also noted supplementary help the women will bask which but not limited to training on reproductive health, family planning and cancer awareness....