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FAO doubts Zim cereal import capacity
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IMF approves $50 million for Liberia as the country runs out of hard currency
Yesterday, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), announced that it has approved the disbursement of SDR36.17 million (US$50 million – equivalent to 1.7 percent of the country’s GDP) to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) in support of the Liberian
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COVID-19 Means Fewer Condoms in Zimbabwe – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Benin
By the end of the 1980s, Benins economy was near collapse. As its oil boom ended, Nigeria expelled 100,000 Beninese migrant workers and closed the border with Benin. Kérékous socialist collectivization of Benins agriculture and the ballooning bureaucracy further damaged the economy. By
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Rwanda: MPs Want Clear Plan to Increase Agricultural Loans
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Zimbabwe: Transport Operators Fret Over Zupco Scheme
Transport operators that are part of the Zupco franchise scheme are up in arms against the government-owned company, which they say is underpaying them for the use of their
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Discordant signals over currency hurts the economy
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June inflation drops to 9-month low
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Clarke points to poverty rate decline in defence of Gov't
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AMHVoices: Operation Restore Legacy a failure
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Liberia: Is Ex-CBL Governor Milton Weeks the Sacrificial Lamb in the 'Missing Billions' Saga?
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Churches declare end of COVID-19
CHURCH leaders gathered at State House for the national day of prayer and fasting yesterday declared the end of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe, saying the country would no longer record any more new
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Sierra Leone needs $309 million to address COVID-19 impact on the economy – says government
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