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BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- SOUTH SUDAN has commenced the process of transferring cash to some 288,000 girls in order to keep them in school amid high school dropouts due to more than five years of conflict. Team Leader of Girls in Education, South Sudan (GESS), Akuja De Garang, supported by the UK...

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- REPORTS FROM Tanzania has indicated that plans are far advanced to establish Nyerere National Park in the Selous Game Reserve, a UNESCO heritage site. The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Adolf Mkenda, said the ministry will officially...

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- MANY GOVERNMENTS are making progress in the fight against tobacco use, but the World Health Organization’s latest tobacco report shows more could be done to help people quit the addictive substance. ‘Quitting tobacco is one of the best things any person can do for...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Saturday 27 July 2019, Ethiopian government plan to rejuvenate the country’s revenue through the mining sector by six folds during the just started Ethiopian fiscal year. The government also announced the formation of a national coordination...

  BY YESMAN ANTOH-     NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- A SURVEY of Made in Ghana goods sold in Ghana’s leading supermarkets has shown that only 18% of goods in 23 product categories surveyed are locally produced. The survey (conducted between April and May 2019) covered eight leading supermarkets in Accra:...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- African Infrastructure Investment Manager (AIIM) has reached it threshold of its flagship Pan-African infrastructure fund AllF3. The AIIM raised $320 million from various investor base across Africa, Asia and Europe. In a statement, AIIM...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- German Africa Business Forum (GABF) has pronounced a multi-million Euro funding commitment to invest in German energy startups in Africa, GABF goal is to augment investment ties between German and Africa in a bid to provide the funding in...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Leading digital money transfer service World Remit extends its rapid exploration in Africa by launching a new international mobile money services through a partnership mobile money services with pan- African fintech- MFS Africa. This launch...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –   NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- African leaders pronounced plans for a continent-wide free trade area; a show that explains an important turn around in intra-African economic and trade ties that would yield dividend add economically and that could also to solving the...