U.S. African Development Foundation: Announce Funding for the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ) Freetown, Sierra Leonne- Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to the U.S President on Feb February 21st, 2020 verified new cooperation in assistance of the White House-led Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative (W-GDP). The agreement between the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) will enhance the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE). AWE was established in 2019 and inaugurated in twenty-six nations around the world to subsidize W-GDP, which strives to economically entrust fifty millions of women in the evolving world by 2025. “W-GDP is the first-ever whole-of-government approach to women’s economic...

Liberia: Roberts International Airport Highway to be Broadened into a Four Lane

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ), Freetown, Sierra Leone-  LIBERIA, Mansion Executive tallied has divulged recommendations by the administration of President George Weah to widen the Roberts International Airport Highway to a four-lane boulevard. This proposal growth is to be 44 Kilometer, which Isaac Solo Kelgbeh – Presidential Press Secretary proclaims that, it will thwart drawbacks confronted by the activities of automobiles on the recent one lane. “Normally, you just have one lane going and one lane coming, so the president wants to improve it to four lanes,” Kelgbeh noted. “The expansion will create Roberts International Airport along the route, instead of just using a single lane.” February 18th, 2020 honoring an Executive...

West African Countries: To Investigate Nigeria Border Closure

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN), Accra, Ghana- West African countries have agreed to conduct an investigation into the impact of Nigeria’s decision last year to close off its land borders to trade, Nigeria’s presidency said. Nigeria has banned the import and export of all goods through its land borders since last August as part of what it describes as a campaign to tackle smuggling. Its smaller neighbors’, many of whom rely on trade with Africa’s biggest economy, have complained that this has caused severe hardship. Heads of state from the Economic Community of West African States agreed Sunday night to set up a committee “to study and make a full report on Nigeria’s land border closure with her neighbors’,” said a statement from a spokesman for...

Tanzania: US $1.46 Billion for SGR Project

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS ( NADN ), Freetown, Sierra Leone- TANZANIA has had a breakthrough in its Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) outer financing and the government does not need to tower to scoop into its pouches to finish off the US $7.6 billion projects. On February, 13th 2020, the government of Tanzania autographed a building consensus with Standard Chartered Bank for a US $1.46 billion loans to fund the edifice of the first and second phases of the project, covering a latitude of approximately 550km from Dar es Salaam to Makutupora. Standard Chartered Tanzania functioned as global co-ordinator, book runner and instructed lead arranger on the facility agreement that is, the largest foreign currency financing raised by the Ministry of Finance to date. Tanzania...