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This is coming as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday blamed insecurity in the Niger Delta and other factors peculiar to Nigeria's operating environment for the high cost of oil production in
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Africa: COVID Threatens Livelihood of 164 Million People in Africa's Informal Economy
The novel coronavirus pandemic threatens to destroy the livelihoods of more than 164 million workers in Africa's informal economy - the largest employing sector, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in its latest
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Nigeria: Your Alarm On Nation's Debt Profile False - Govt Replies Atiku
The Federal Government says the "alarm and doom" predictions by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on the country's debt profile is anchored on a false
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Africa Needs a Dove Fund - or Should We Starve So We Can Pay Our Debts?
It should create a special purpose vehicle -the DOVE (Debts of Vulnerable Economies) fund -- that will demonstrate to the financial markets how a responsible creditor treats African debtors in
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Mauritius: Reinventing the Mauritian Economic Model
Although Mauritius has reinvented itself before, the consequences this time challenge its economic philosophy and will require vision, creativity and
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Burundi: Poor country wracked by ethnic conflict
The small, central African country of Burundi is one of the poorest in the world, with a history of political crises and ethnic massacres and a long civil
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Bartlett seeks cooperation in rebuilding tourism
MINISTER of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says that the phased reopening of Jamaica's borders to international travellers on June 15 was not just about tourism, but a matter of economic life or
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Nigeria's Economy Will Definitely Go Into Recession - Finance Minister
An assessment by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics indicates that Nigeria's economy will go into a recession at an average of -4.4 per cent, the finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, has
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Eskom will be sustainable if it can halve its debt: CEO
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Hispanic Workers Worry About Brexit’s Smallest Land Boundary
But if this has been a politically fraught period for many in Gibraltar, for the approximately 15,000 workers who regularly cross the border with Spain it has been a time of tremendous anxiety and
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Africa: Cybercrime and COVID-19 – A Concern for Financial Stability During the Pandemic
Cybercrime has long posed a significant risk for financial stability in African countries given limited capacity and attention to managing cyber
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Nigeria: Lagos Slashes 2020 Budget By 21% to N920.5 Billion
Following the economic damage caused by the COVID-19, Lagos State Executive Council yesterday disclosed plan to revise the state's 2020 budget by 21 per cent, from the N1.168 billion hitherto approved by the State House Assembly to
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SEBUNYA: Where is conservation in the East Africa budget
The allocations to conservation (tourism, wildlife and environment) averaged at 1.4 per cent (Kenya), 1.7 per cent (Uganda), 3.8 per cent (Rwanda) and one per cent (Tanzania) of Total Development
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New reality for business leaders in post-Covid era
According to a survey released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) titled East Africa’s Rebound, workers will have to adapt to the new reality to ensure near-term business continuity in the
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What’s In The Pipeline To Revive Ethnic Small Businesses?
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Kandeh Yumkella’s “Garden of Eden Syndrome” theory on corruption – Op ed
KKY’s theory on why  corruption in Sierra Leone (and nearly all of Africa) has festered – he dubbed the “Garden of Eden
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Kenya overtakes Angola as third-largest economy in Sub-Sahara
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Uganda: Civil Society to Kampala - We Want Transparency, Not Graft-Laced Debts
The civil society in Uganda is demanding transparency in the spending of Covid-19 loans to avoid loading taxpayers with corruption-fuelled
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South Africa: Who Has Been Hit Hardest By South Africa's Lockdown? We Found Some Answers
In trying to limit the spread of COVID-19, policymakers globally have the difficult task of balancing the positive health effects of lockdowns against their economic costs, particularly the burdens lockdowns impose on low-income and food-insecure
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Could the Juneteenth Shop Black Virtual Experience be the forerunner of Kwanzaa’s ‘ujamaa’? Absolutely!
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Uganda: Cover Story - Tough Budget
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Africa: International Partnerships are Key for Africa during COVID-19
As the African Union Chair, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa chaired a virtual meeting of African heads of state and declared: "The challenge of this pandemic has shown how Africa is able to work together to solve its own
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Egypt: As Lockdown Clears the Air, Cairo Looks to Keep Pollution Low
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Bolsonaro brought in his generals to fight coronavirus. Brazil is losing the battle
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Private Sector, Labour Leaders Oppose Fresh Lockdown
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