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24 Oct 19
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has achieved a record number of convictions this year, earning it praise from the country’s Senate.
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23 Oct 19
Somalia is progressing with economic reforms and hopes to have its debts wiped soon, the country’s finance minister has said.
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22 Oct 19
The Lebanese government has made major concessions on its budget after days of protests.
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18 Oct 19
Thousands of people across Lebanon have been protesting against the government’s handling of an economic crisis and proposed new taxes.
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17 Oct 19
Africa has seen a huge rise in debt, which needs to yield a return for the citizens who will be paying it back, says the ONE Campaign’s Fiona Robertson.
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3 Oct 19
Thulani Mpofu looks at whether Zimbabwe is any better off two years after triumphant scenes that ushered in a new president and ended a 37-year dictatorship.
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1 Oct 19
A clear economic growth strategy for South Africa will be finalised within the next few weeks, president Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.
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24 Sep 19
The International Monetary Fund has warned the “current calm [surrounding Turkey’s economy] appears fragile”, despite its economy rebounding from last year’s recession.
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23 Sep 19
Gabon will be the first African country to be given aid to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and protect its forests, in a move to fight climate change.
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20 Sep 19
An unresolved tax dispute with Israel means Palestine faces a financing gap that could exceed $1.8bn this year, the World Bank has said.
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16 Sep 19
Namibia’s economy is slowly recovering but public debt “remains on a rising path”, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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9 Sep 19
The African Development Bank’s Anne Valko Celestino and Elisa Desbordes-Cissé ask if the world is ready to be gender equal in leadership.
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6 Sep 19
“Major challenges” with the transparency and accountability of mining contracts are hampering the Democratic Republic of Congo’s ability to boost public spending.
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6 Sep 19
South Africa has avoided a second recession in two years, as new figures show its economy grew by 3.1% in the second quarter of 2019.
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3 Sep 19
The Kenyan government has been unable to claim 283bn Kenyan shillings (£2.2bn) it has demanded from high-earning taxpayers because of a huge appeals backlog caused by a judicial “vacuum”.
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2 Sep 19
Children in Africa will make up more than half of global poverty by 2030, according to the think-tank Overseas Development Institute and charity Save the Children.
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27 Aug 19
The Palestinian Authority has agreed a deal with the Israeli government in a dispute over the transfer of tax revenues.
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23 Aug 19
Economist Abdalla Hamdok has been sworn in as prime minister of Sudan, and promised to solve the country’s economic crisis and end violence.
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20 Aug 19
National leaders from Southern Africa have called on the West to remove sanctions on Zimbabwe, which they said was now “ready to engage with the rest of the world”.
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19 Aug 19
Sudan’s ex-president has admitted to receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a detective has told a court at the start of a corruption trial.
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19 Aug 19
Great strides have been made in developing energy, infrastructure and trade routes in Southern Africa, the African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina has said.
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16 Aug 19
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has won the latest round in his legal battle against an anti-corruption watchdog.
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12 Aug 19
Struggling South African state power utility Eskom wants the majority of its 440bn rand ($29bn) debt transferred to the country’s government.
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5 Aug 19
Africa’s poorest countries made little progress on improving the frameworks necessary to promote poverty reduction and sustainable growth in 2018, the World Bank has found.
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1 Aug 19
The international community needs to “step up” and fight the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the UK government.