Global Development Finance Deal Reached in Ethiopia
18/07/2015United Nations member states from 193 who attended the third Finance for Development Conference (FFD3) held from 13 to 16 July 2015 in Addis Abeba have concluded their meeting by.
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Nigeria Starts Construction Work On Africa’s Largest Deep Sea Port
17/07/2015The Lagos State Government Thursday disclosed that it would commence the construction of the biggest deep sea port in Africa, which it said, would be situated on over 1,000 hectares.
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Business & Economy
Made In Africa: Congo-Based Startup Launch Smartphone Manufacturing Plant
17/07/2015While the rest of the world smartphone market stagnates Africa’s mobile phone markets is waking up and more and more people are ditching their old feature phones for these internet.
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Nigeria And Kenya Surprisingly The Best Investment Destination In Africa – Reports
17/07/2015These findings were established by the Washington DC-based advisory firm, Frontier Strategy Group (FSG). FSG, is a leading provider of information services for emerging market executives. The FSG’s Frontier Markets.
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Business & Economy
Who Will Be Africa’s First Trillion Dollar Economy?
17/07/2015According to data released by the United States Department of Agriculture, by 2030 Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) will be over 1 trillion US dollars. This is almost three times.
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Africa
Africa’s Poor Are Disappearing But They’re Not Joining The Middle Class
17/07/2015Africa experienced a dramatic decline in poverty between 2001 and 2011. The number of people in poverty – living on two US dollars or less a day – plunged 41.
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Politics & Policy
Burkina Faso’s Transitional Council Indicts Former President For High Treason
17/07/2015Burkina Faso’s transitional council has indicted former president Blaise Compaore and some senior members of his government for high treason, the governing council said in a statement on Thursday. Compaore,.
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Africa
Nigeria: Terrorism, Corruption, Trades Tops Agenda As Buhari Meets Obama Next Week
17/07/2015President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja Sunday for Washington D.C. on a four-day official visit during which he will hold high-level talks with President Barack Obama and other senior officials.
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Development Stories
Will Africa’s biggest wind power project transform Kenya’s growth?
17/07/2015Kenya has stepped up its efforts to transform 40,000 acres of land into a wind farm, in a bid to meet growing demand for electricity. The 300 MW Lake Turkana.
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7 things you didn’t know about South Africa’s only black billionaire
16/07/2015Patrice Motsepe is a man who quite literally struck gold. In 1997, when the gold market was close to its lowest in the last three decades, he started buying gold.
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