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By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –   NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- New Africa Daily News has being following it’s sources in Ethiopia,  the person suspected of governing control of Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region was shot dead on Monday and cohorts have been arrested. General Asamnew Tsige of masterminding gun attacks on Saturday night that killed five people including the national army’s Chief of Staff and Amhara’s State President.   Tsige was shot on Monday near Amhara’s capital Bahir Dar, the prime minister’s Press Secretary Negussu Tilahun intimated the media. He declined to give any other details.   The reasons behind the attempted coup in the state remain unclear, although it may have been a reaction from Asamnew to a plan by state officials to...

BY YESMAN ANTOH-     NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- GHANA CAME 4th after Mauritius, Botswana and Malawi respectively as the most peaceful country in Africa in the latest Global Peace Index. On the globe, Ghana ranked 44th with Iceland leading the overall chart as the most ‘peaceful’ nation on earth in the 2019 Global Peace Index. In addition, the world’s overall ‘peacefulness’ has improved for the first time in five years – although only marginally. Afghanistan was bottom of the list, moving below even Syria, while South Sudan, Yemen and Iraq were all in the bottom five. The report measures the ‘peacefulness’ of 163 countries with a range of measures including military spending and deaths from conflict and terrorism, as well as an estimated economic cost of violence....

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –   NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- President of the Republic of Sierra Leone Dr. Julius Maada Bio has told the investors’ conference on the tender process for the proposed Lungi Bridge that infrastructural investments should not burden the country with huge debt. “We believe infrastructural investment…should be financed in a way that the public and future generations are not liable for that debt. So we are not going to build a bridge or an airport for which the people of Sierra Leone are going to pay back a high-interest loan for 10, 20, or 30 years. That simply does not make economic sense,” he said. The president over emphasized that, each infrastructures investment must be capable to pay for itself in 10 to 20 years based on the...

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Accra, Ghana-  THE AFRICAN Union Commission (AUC) has urged African businesses to take the advantage in exploiting trade and economic opportunities in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which entered into force in May. A senior official in the AUC, Khauhelo Mawana, said multi-national businesses were already positioning themselves for the market and it was prudent for African businesses to be on the forefront in their own market. Mawana was speaking at a consultative forum to come up with Zimbabwe’s national strategy on implementing the AfCFTA in the capital Harare. “Multi-national businesses are already strategising to take full advantage of the AfCFTA market. Some business delegations have visited the AUC enquiring...