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9 Jan 17
An NGO that uses multimedia to champion girls’ rights has lost UK aid funding after being targeted with criticism by the country's press.
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6 Jan 17
The African Development Bank has approved a $870,000 grant to promote off-grid electricity generation in Tanzania.
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3 Jan 17
Some of Nigeria’s poorest citizens have received the first round of monthly 5,000 naira ($16) payments intended to help alleviate severe poverty in the country.
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21 Dec 16
Cancer, strokes and heart and lung diseases will soon be a bigger threat to people in Africa than infectious outbreaks like Ebola or Zika, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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14 Dec 16
One third of health facilities in Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno State have been completely destroyed, while nearly another third are partially damaged, it has been announced.
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13 Dec 16
Syria’s brutal five-year civil war could have cost the country as much as $38bn in lost growth, researchers from the UK have estimated.
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8 Dec 16
It has been an “exceptionally weak” year for sub-Saharan African growth, according to ratings agency Fitch, with an economic expansion of just 0.9% expected be registered in 2016.
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2 Dec 16
Money looted from Nigeria and seized by the UK should be used to save millions of people from starvation in the country’s north east, Save the Children has said.
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1 Dec 16
Tax officials from Kenya are to help their counterparts in Botswana audit multinational firms as part of a tax assistance project under the Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB) programme.
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1 Dec 16
The election of incoming US president Donald Trump looks set to hurt Africa’s access to finance for key projects at a time when economic growth is already slowing, the UK’s Overseas Development...
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30 Nov 16
Inequalities are rising in the Arab world and countries in the region need to address them, especially for the burgeoning youth population, to restore stability and development, the UNDP has said.
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29 Nov 16
Zimbabwe has launched its controversial new currency, pegged to the US dollar, in the hope of easing a crippling cash crisis.
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25 Nov 16
Good governance and accountability in public services requires a strong internal audit function, comprehensive external reporting and stakeholder engagement with that information, delegates at the...
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21 Nov 16
Nigeria’s economy has remained firmly in recession in the third quarter of the year, the country’s National Bureau of Statistics has announced.
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17 Nov 16
South Africa has a grand vision for healthcare: free and equitable access for all citizens. However, difficult questions over funding remain unresolved
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16 Nov 16
Christopher Nyong has been appointed to the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board, it was announced last week.
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15 Nov 16
The International Monetary Fund has lifted a number of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe for its unpaid arrears to the fund, although the cash-strapped country will still be unable to access new lending...
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14 Nov 16
Egypt’s economic reforms have successfully secured a $12bn loan from the International Monetary Fund.
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11 Nov 16
The instability triggered by the Arab Spring has cost countries in the region $613.8bn since 2011 and a fiscal shortfall $217.9bn greater than pre-crisis projections, the United Nations has found.
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10 Nov 16
South African president Jacob Zuma is facing his second no confidence vote of the year after a report levelled further suspicions of corruption against him last week.
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9 Nov 16
Disgruntled Mozambique bondholders have formed a creditors' committee to prepare for an expected default and resist the government’s efforts to restructure its debt.
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8 Nov 16
Morocco has invested $100m in World Bank green bonds.
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8 Nov 16
The World Bank has welcomed economic and social reforms in Egypt, which it said would help to create jobs and revitalise the country’s economy.
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4 Nov 16
Uganda’s high court has ruled that an order to close 63 schools run by a controversial, for-profit provider should go ahead.
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4 Nov 16
Sudan has raised fuel prices by around 30% as a severe shortage of foreign currency adds to a growing economic crisis in the country.