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The president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, told the bank's ethics committee that allegations of impropriety and fraud against him were "frivolous and not based on objective and solid facts", his defence obtained exclusively by PREMIUM TIMES
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Tunisian NGO distributing COVID-19 food aid via SMS
A Tunisian non-governmental organization, NGO, Sustainable Food Bank; is distributing food supplies to families adversely impacted by ongoing COVID-19
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Madagascar sends doctors, soldiers to virus-hit city
The government of Madagascar has announced the deployment of soldiers and doctors to the city of Toamasina (east), after a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country’s second largest
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Born: 6/3/954 Ogwashi Ukwu, NigeriaNgozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian economist best known for her two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria and for her work at the World Bank, including several years as one of its Managing DirectorsBusiness / Schooling:
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Anthony R. Chase
Anthony R. Chase is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ChaseSource, LP. Chase is also Co-Founder and Chairman of SBC Communications Inc. Previously, Chase was an Executive Vice President and Principal of Crest Investment Corp. Chase was also Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of
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Freedmen's Bank closed
Freedmens Bank closed. Black depositors had some $3 Million in the bank, which had an imposing headquarters in Washington and branches in various cities President Frederick Douglass said later that the Freedmens Bank had been the Black mans cow and the white mans milk.
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2016 repeat? Trump revives Clinton playbook to battle Biden
And it kicked into overdrive last week when Trump seized upon revelations that Biden was informed of the investigation of ties between Russia and Michael Flynn, a senior Trump official, as evidence of a plot to undermine a presidency before it
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Central Bank tipped to cut policy rate, again
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Debt payments forecast to cross Sh1 trillion mark
The ministry forecasts that debt payments will cross the Sh1 trillion mark in President Uhuru Kenyatta's last year in office, underlining the country’s push to restructure some of the arrears to ease pressure on thinning tax receipts amid Covid-19
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Brazil coronavirus deaths surge
Brazil saw its highest number of coronavirus deaths yet Tuesday as, more than four months after Covid-19 first emerged in China, the force of the pandemic was beginning to hit hard in Latin
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Africa: Pres. Weah, Others Chat On Economic Interventions During COVID-19 At UBA Africa Day 2020
The series, in its second year, brought together African and World leaders to discuss 'Domestic policies, regional development, and possible threats facing Africa's Global achievement of the SDGs amidst the COVID-19 pandemic amongst
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South Africa coronavirus: US gives 1,000 ventilators; cases pass 11,000
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Guyana’s ‘associated gas’ has no market value
The IMF, the World Bank, the IADB, the European Investment Bank, leading economists (e.g. former World Bank Chief Economists Lord Stern and Joseph Stiglitz,), the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, and a host of other financial and industry experts can all give you excellent
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Stolen Sh328bn aid cash hidden abroad
Kenya’s elite siphoned Sh328 billion of World Bank aid payments to offshore accounts in two decades, a new study
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Spingarn Medal: Charles R. Drew
Spingarn Medal presented to Charles R. Drew who set up and ran the blood plasma bank in the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City which served as one of the models for the widespread system of blood banks now in operation for the American Red Cross.
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Presidential Assistant E. Frederic Morrow born
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EcoCash losses High Court matters over freezing of it's 54 000 agent lines
The High Court of Zimbabwe has dismissed Econet Zimbabwe’s mobile money platform Ecocash’s application which sought to interdict the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe from suspending its mobile money
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Kenya: Manage COVID-19 Funds Transparently
Early this month, the International Monetary Fund approved disbursement of $739 to Kenya to address the impact of the Covid-19
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IDT rules in favour of BOJ in vacation leave dispute
The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) has sided with the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) in a long-standing dispute with the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) over a change in the bank’s vacation leave policy, over which the union has expressed strong
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Nigeria: Amidst Lockdown Ease, Nigeria's Weekly COVID-19 Cases Reduce, Recoveries Double
As Nigerians continue to experience the nationwide ease in lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari, the country recorded a 16 per cent drop in coronavirus cases last week compared to the previous week, an analysis of data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
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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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Kenya: Co-Op Bank, Simba Corporation in Deal to Offer Asset Financing
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Africa: Global Leaders Discuss How Africa Can Achieve Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery
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Nicodemus, Kansas (1877- )
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Kenya: Cops Probe 2 Equity Bank Employees After Customer They Served Lost Sh600,000
Police are investigating two employees of Equity Bank's Ridgeways branch after a customer they served at the bank was trailed and the Sh600,000 he had withdrawn there stolen from his car at
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East Africa: COVID-19 Leaves Region in $2.3 Billion Debt Hole in Three Months
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Uganda: Banks Record Shs685b in Non-Performing Loans
Commercial banks recorded about Shs685.7b in non-performing loans for the period ended December 31, 2019, according to details compiled from annual performance
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Nigeria: COVID-19 - Firm Advocates for Made in Nigeria Clothing
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AC Green on Saving Homes and What to Avoid with Banks During COVID-19
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Africa: COVID-19 Straw Breaks Free Trade Camel's Back
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