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Rwanda: Government Plans to Spend Rwf3.2 Trillion in 2020-2021
The Government is expected to spend Frw3,245.7 billion in 2020-2021 fiscal year, which is Rwf228.7 billion higher than the revised budget estimates of
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For Black People, Plant Parenthood Is Deeper Than Instagram
Connecting with our ancestors by returning to African agrarian practices and bringing plants native to our ancestral homelands into our environment is healing for Black people in a world that often denies us access to greenery, frivolity, healthy food options, and full access to our
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Nigeria: New Electricity Tariff, VAT Rate to Sustain Upward Pressure On Prices
Nigeria's annual inflation rate rose for the ninth consecutive months to 12.4 percent in May from 12.34 percent in April, the highest in 25 months, with analysts projecting that the upward trend will persist, driven by commencement of the new electricity tariff and Value Added Tax (VAT) as well as
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Bartlett seeks cooperation in rebuilding tourism
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African Business Roundtable (ABR) President, Samuel Dossou Aworet Sends a Message of Solidarity of the African Private Sector with the African Development Bank Group
The African Business Roundtable (ABR) relationship with the African Development Bank (AfDB) that has lasted over three decades, was further concretized by a strategic partnership for the promotion of investment in Africa, expressed in an Agreement (LOI) signed in August
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Uganda's $12b Budget Offers Tax Waivers, Credit Access to SMEs
In a bid to get the Ugandan economy moving again after nearly three months of lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, the government on June 11 presented a budget offering a host of tax waivers and funding for the business
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Uganda's Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Dies
Uganda's permanent representative to the United Nations, World Trade Organization and other International Organizations in Geneva, Christopher Onyanga Aparr has
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Rwanda: How New Web-Based App Eases Access to Land Information
The Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority (RLMUA) has launched a web-based application which allows anyone interested in a plot of land anywhere in the country to check it out by themselves, at any time, as another way to ease
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Nigeria: Why Wheat Production Is Under Constant Threat - Farmers
The Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria has painted a devastating picture of how COVID-19 and uninspiring government policy were destroying wheat production in
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NJAGI: Incoherent policies draw back gains in smallholder
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‘The ostrich syndrome must end’
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Farmers use technology to boost sales
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Nigeria: Exclusive - AfDB 'Whistleblower' Allegations Against Me False - Adesina
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Tanzania: Post-Harvest Losses Becomes Tanzania's Loss in Youth Farming
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Kenya Budgets to Fight Locusts, Floods and Virus
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Nigeria: Exclusive - How AfDB Ethics Committee, Whistleblowers Clashed During Adesina's Probe
Indications have emerged that there was a mild disagreement between a group of whistleblowers and the ethics committee of the board of directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) during the probe of its embattled president, Akinwunmi
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Africa: Water, Water Everywhere, Yet We Have Been Crying for Free Water...
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Rwanda: How GGGI Is Connecting Rwanda-Italy Investors Exploring Green Investment Opportunities
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The Federal Republic of Nigeria /n aɪ ˈ dʒ ɪər i ə/  (  listen), commonly referred to as Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. It
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Rwanda: EU Offers Rwf55 Billion to Rwanda in COVID-19 Grant
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South Africa: COVID-19 - the State Cannot Save Us
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