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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS (NADN) Accra- The African Development Bank has approved two grants for research that will increase African women’s access to a range of digital financial services including loans and micro-insurance. The grants, for $1 million and...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The scheme to localize the possession of Namibian mining licenses discerns them culmination 2020 of an assessment of the Mining Act which encompasses prospecting and mining activities. The ministry...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone-  The South African Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has announced the merger of Central Energy Fund (CEF) subsidiaries iGas, PetroSA and the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF). The unification...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- Tanzania’s State power utility firm will supply 70 megawatts of electricity to power first phase of the standard gauge railway (SGR), will start operations in the coming months. Energy Minister Medard Kalemani said,...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Allied Air of Nigeria, begets a Boeing 737-800 freighter jet, greatly to the pleasure of the Minister of Aviation – Hadi Sirika and the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, amongst others....

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- The Secretary General for AfCFTA Secretariat, Wamkele Mene is expected to headline the maiden Africa Private Sector Summit for this year slated for March 8 to March 12, organizers of the summit have announced. The five day...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has approved a €40 million framework agreement with the ODDO BHF Aktiengesellschaft, a Franco-German financial services group with a longstanding...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra- Ghana has on March 3, 2021 signed a trade partnership agreement with UK that secures tariff-free trade and provides a platform for greater economic and cultural cooperation. The deal supports a trading relationship worth £1.2...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- As rampant smuggling of different products threatens to cripple the local manufacturing industry, economics professor at the Polytechinic —a constituent college of the University of Malawi— Betchani...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra, Ghana- Customers in Singapore and across the world will now have easy access to some of Rwanda’s traditional products following a move by the country’s leading online supermarket, RedMart, to trade them online. The...