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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East Africa Community (EAC), and Southern African Development Community (SADC) have developed a regional electronic Corridor Trip Monitoring System (CTMS) which will allow cross border road transport operators, drivers, regulators and law enforcement agencies to record and monitor driver wellness data such as COVID-19 test results has been approved by the Tripartite group. The CTMS will also enable operators to track the driver, crew and truck movements against preapproved route plans. The CTMS is supported by the current legal and regulatory framework existing both at regional and national level, which include inter-alia: REC Treaties, Protocols and Agreements,...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- Leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has announced the deployment of its Azure Stack Hub in Nairobi, Kenya. The availability of the hub within Kenyan borders will enable businesses to meet local data regulatory requirements and efficiently run latency sensitive business applications. This investment showcases Liquid Telecom’s commitment to Kenya’s digital transformation by empowering businesses with a cloud solution that is locally available, highly secure, and enables real time business continuity with flexible adoption models. Adil El Youssefi, Regional CEO of Liquid Telecom East Africa, said, “Even before the COVID19 pandemic, we had been enabling businesses across the continent to implement their digital...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- World’s two largest cocoa producers, Ivory Coast and Ghana have initiated a joint body to improve coordination in research, price setting and the fight against child labor, the Ivorian government said in a statement. Both countries, produce around 60% of the world’s cocoa, have coordinated on some of those issues before, but the new organization marks a formal step towards closer ties. Ivory Coast-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (ICCIG) will promote their cocoa industries internationally and defend their collective position in the global market, the Ivorian government said in a statement. The organization will allow the two countries to formalize an agreement started three years ago whereby they both announce farm gate prices at the start...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILYNEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Seemingly, the $450 million agreements were formulated in cooperation with the government of Burkina Faso and shall subsidize in the power sector to stretch and maintain the country’s economic growth. “We are marking a new chapter in the partnership between the United States and the people of Burkina Faso with the signing of this second MCC-Burkina Faso Compact,” stated MCC Chief Executive Officer-Sean Cairncross. “This compact will address the high cost, poor quality, and low access to electricity in Burkina Faso and will also support the country’s increased participation in regional power markets and the development of a potential MCC regional investment.” In upswing to the $450 million that MCC has...