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6 Mar 18
Independent regulators in Africa met last week to strengthen auditing and accounting regulations across the continent by formalising a common base and adopting international standards.
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1 Mar 18
The government of Ghana will give $2m in a move to make the national audit service paperless to “protect the public purse”.
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28 Feb 18
South Africa’s new president has unveiled significant changes to his cabinet, including the re-appointment of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister.
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26 Feb 18
South Africa’s ruling party has said it will look at ways to soften the impact of the new VAT rates on poorer people by adding more zero-rates and tax-free items.
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21 Feb 18
South Africa has increased its value added tax for the first time in 25 years, from 14% to 15% from 1 April, as part of efforts to cut the budget deficit.
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20 Feb 18
South Africa has launched an online budget data portal to make information more accessible ahead of the finance minister’s budget speech on Wednesday.
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16 Feb 18
South African’s ruling party leader Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in as the country’s new president after Jacob Zuma resigned amid pressure to step down.
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15 Feb 18
Gulf nations have pledged $30bn to Iraq at a conference this week, which was organised to discuss the reconstruct of the war-torn country’s economy.
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12 Feb 18
Nations in the Arab world should cut their public sector pay bills and stop allocating jobs through cronyism if they want to grow economically, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine...
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12 Feb 18
Tanzania’s macroeconomic performance has been satisfactory with most quantitative targets met, though implementation of structural measures has lagged, an International Monetary Fund review of the...
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8 Feb 18
South Africa’s budget speech should still go ahead on 21 February, despite the president’s state of the nation address being postponed, the parliament has said.
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5 Feb 18
Liberia and the World Bank have signed a $24.67m grant agreement to boost economic transformation and governance in the west African country.
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2 Feb 18
South African president Jacob Zuma has asked prosecutors to drop corruption charges against him, the state prosecutor said on Thursday.
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31 Jan 18
Saudi Arabia has said the government will seize more than $100bn through its corruption crack-down, with more than 50 royals and businessmen arrested.
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30 Jan 18
Liberia’s newly sworn-in president has pledged to cut his own salary by 25% to fix the country’s “broken” economy.
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29 Jan 18
Growth in the African island country of Cape Verde is buoyant and likely to hit 4.3% this year, according to an International Monetary Fund review.
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29 Jan 18
South Africans will have to “bear some pain” as a result of the “tough decisions” made in the budget to stabilise the country’s debt, the finance minister has said.
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26 Jan 18
The government of Kenya will cut spending to lower its budget deficit to internationally accepted levels in the next five years, the Treasury has said.
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22 Jan 18
A South African public health campaign group has pledged to hold the government to account for the “health crisis”.
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22 Jan 18
The United Nations is seeking $1.6bn to protect millions of people in Somalia from drought, conflict and displacement.
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19 Jan 18
Saudi Arabia will help Yemen’s struggling economy with a $2bn transfer to its central bank following the Yemeni prime minister’s appeal for help.
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17 Jan 18
The South African government will offer free university education to students from poorer backgrounds, the finance minister has said.
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16 Jan 18
Tunisia is planning to give an extra $70m to poor families and needy people in the country amid protests against austerity measures, a minister has said.
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12 Jan 18
The International Federation of Accountants has said it will assist Zimbabwe in building stronger public sector financial capacity.
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11 Jan 18
IMF deputy managing director Tao Zhang has warned that public sector wage bills in the Middle East and Central Asia are far higher than those in similar countries, absorbing money that could be...
6 Mar 18Independent regulators in Africa met last week to strengthen auditing and accounting regulations across the continent by formalising a common base and adopting international standards.
1 Mar 18The government of Ghana will give $2m in a move to make the national audit service paperless to “protect the public purse”.
28 Feb 18South Africa’s new president has unveiled significant changes to his cabinet, including the re-appointment of Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister.
21 Feb 18South Africa has increased its value added tax for the first time in 25 years, from 14% to 15% from 1 April, as part of efforts to cut the budget deficit.
20 Feb 18South Africa has launched an online budget data portal to make information more accessible ahead of the finance minister’s budget speech on Wednesday.
16 Feb 18South African’s ruling party leader Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in as the country’s new president after Jacob Zuma resigned amid pressure to step down.
15 Feb 18Gulf nations have pledged $30bn to Iraq at a conference this week, which was organised to discuss the reconstruct of the war-torn country’s economy.
12 Feb 18Nations in the Arab world should cut their public sector pay bills and stop allocating jobs through cronyism if they want to grow economically, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine...
12 Feb 18Tanzania’s macroeconomic performance has been satisfactory with most quantitative targets met, though implementation of structural measures has lagged, an International Monetary Fund review of the...
5 Feb 18Liberia and the World Bank have signed a $24.67m grant agreement to boost economic transformation and governance in the west African country.
2 Feb 18South African president Jacob Zuma has asked prosecutors to drop corruption charges against him, the state prosecutor said on Thursday.
31 Jan 18Saudi Arabia has said the government will seize more than $100bn through its corruption crack-down, with more than 50 royals and businessmen arrested.
29 Jan 18Growth in the African island country of Cape Verde is buoyant and likely to hit 4.3% this year, according to an International Monetary Fund review.
26 Jan 18The government of Kenya will cut spending to lower its budget deficit to internationally accepted levels in the next five years, the Treasury has said.
22 Jan 18The United Nations is seeking $1.6bn to protect millions of people in Somalia from drought, conflict and displacement.
19 Jan 18Saudi Arabia will help Yemen’s struggling economy with a $2bn transfer to its central bank following the Yemeni prime minister’s appeal for help.
17 Jan 18The South African government will offer free university education to students from poorer backgrounds, the finance minister has said.
16 Jan 18Tunisia is planning to give an extra $70m to poor families and needy people in the country amid protests against austerity measures, a minister has said.
12 Jan 18The International Federation of Accountants has said it will assist Zimbabwe in building stronger public sector financial capacity.
11 Jan 18IMF deputy managing director Tao Zhang has warned that public sector wage bills in the Middle East and Central Asia are far higher than those in similar countries, absorbing money that could be...
