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By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- East African bloc has made it official that every Fridays, East Africans must wear attires manufactured in the region, since it has been announced that ‘Mashariki Fashion Day’ has been declared. The 36th Sectoral Council on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (SCTIFI) by extension, promulgated that the 1st Week of September an ‘Afrika Mashariki Fashion Week’ to be held annually as a Trade Fair and Exhibition of EAC designed textiles and garments. The SCTIFI encouraged EAC partner states that produce cotton to set up national cotton lint buffer stock mechanisms to ensure all year round availability of locally produced cotton plant to spinning mills. The Ministerial session of the 36th SCTIFI which was charged...

BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) Group has unveiled its innovative thinking new policy paper “Creating Decent Jobs: Strategies, Policies, and Instruments,” about Africa’s conventional employment issues. The report elicited strong presentations and a lively debate during the event which took place in the Babacar N’Diaye Auditorium at the Bank’s headquarters, attended by senior management, diplomats, staff, and media representatives, a release from the bank has stated. The Bank’s Senior Vice President, Charles Boamah, introduced the issue of employment as being “at the top of the agenda of every African leader”, and said that the report was the first of its kind in challenging and unveiling some of the misconceptions that many experts...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- There are explicit benefactors that saw the economy grow at such a high rate. These include construction activity, retail and wholesale trade, as well as food crops, among others. The Deputy Director General at the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda -Ivan Murenzi said, economies like Rwanda, it’s normal to achieve double digits growth. “We are a young economy where everything tangible that happens in the economy can felt. This is different from developed economies where huge things must happen,” he said. Construction was the top contributor to the growth realized in the second quarter. Construction activities expanded 32% driven by mega government projects and a few private sector led activities. “In...

BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- THE ASHANTI Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah has called on management of Zoomlion to speed up the process in completing its’s Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (IRECOP) in the Ashanti Region to help manage the overwhelming waste being generated in the region. Kumasi, which is the regional capital of the Ashanti and the second largest city in Ghana generates a total of 1,500 tons of waste at minimum without any recycling plant to sustainably manage the waste generated daily. The only landfill which receives municipal solid waste in the Kumasi metropolis is the Oti Landfill which is currently full to capacity posing health threat to residents as leachate from the waste is heavily polluting water bodies in the region. The...