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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...
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8 Jan 18
Two former Zimbabwean ministers have been charged with corruption in the crackdown on officials close to former president Robert Mugabe.
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8 Jan 18
The UAE administration has agreed 70% of revenue from its new value-added-tax will be distributed to local governments.
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2 Jan 18
The Iranian police have arrested more than 450 protesters in Tehran amid anti-government demonstrations triggered by a weakened economy and corruption concerns.
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20 Dec 17
The Saudi Arabia government has unveiled its 2018 budget, which it is hoping will boost spending to record levels in the country and drag the economy out of recession.
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19 Dec 17
The International Monetary Fund has given Mauritania a three-year loan worth $163.9m to strengthen economic stability and speed up growth in the country.
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19 Dec 17
The Asian Development Bank has signed a $60m grant to support electricity in Afghanistan by extending the national grid connectivity and strengthening the power system.
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15 Dec 17
South Sudan needs $1.7bn in humanitarian aid in 2018 to help those affected by the ongoing war, hunger and the deteriorating economy, the United Nations and country’s government have said.
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15 Dec 17
South Africa’s high court has ordered president Jacob Zuma to pay the legal costs for trying to block a demand for an official inquiry into allegations against his government.
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15 Dec 17
Saudi Arabia’s king has approved a 72bn riyals ($19.2bn) programme to stimulate growth in his country’s private sector next year.