Addis Ababa launches modern urban rail service
21/09/2015Ethiopia’s first modern urban commuter rail service has been launched in the capital Addis Ababa. The $470M project, which was mostly funded by China’s Exim Bank, is the first fully.
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Women In Leadership: Leading A Quiet Nigerian Revolution In Pension Funds
19/09/2015Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, the director general of Nigeria’s pension commission is working to build trust in the system and integrate workers from the informal sector. For someone who oversees billions of.
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Business & Economy
Investment: Ghana’s Cocobod signs $1.8 billion loan for 2015/16 crop purchases
18/09/2015Ghana’s cocoa regulator signed a $1.8 billion loan with international banks on Thursday to finance purchases for the 2015/16 season, its spokesman said. Ghana is the world’s second-biggest producer of.
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Zambia to start exporting electricity in 2016
18/09/2015Zambia’s government is taking measures to ease power shortages and the southern African nation will be a net exporter of electricity within 12 to 13 months, President Edgar Lungu said.
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As the Music fades, You are forever in our Heart
18/09/2015A Tribute to Ambassador Ade Adefuye, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States By: African Leadership Magazine It was the great poet, Oscar Wilde that said, “To live is the rarest.
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Business & Economy
Zambia: State of the economy is challenging – Finance Minister
17/09/2015ALEXANDER CHIKWANDA, ZAMBIA’S FINANCE MINISTER. PHOTO©LUSAKA TIMES Zambia’s economy is likely to grow by less than 5 percent in 2015 due to a power crunch that has hit output from.
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Ethiopia: World Bank approves $600m facility to support basic services
16/09/2015The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $600 million facility to support Ethiopia’s effort to improve equitable access to basic services for its vulnerable citizens. In a statement, the bank.
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Business & Economy
Nigeria’s President Encourages French Investment
16/09/2015President Muhammadu Buhari in Paris assured French investors of his administration’s commitment to provide a suitable business environment that would boost economic activities and create jobs for the youth. News.
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African Development Bank (AfDB) Chief To Focus On Powering Africa
14/09/2015The African Development Bank (AfDB) will focus in coming years on tackling Africa’s chronic power shortages to try to unlock its economic potential and end its vulnerability to fluctuations in.
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Politics & Policy
President Sirleaf Orders Audit of More Liberian Ministries
13/09/2015Several ministries and agencies, including a commission are to face audit to give accounts of money in trusted in their care for various projects for which they had self disbursing.
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