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Accra, Ghana//-Afrobarometer, a leading pan-African, nonpartisan survey research network has revealed that Africans prefer self-reliant development as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) opened for business on January 1, 2021.

Seven out of 10 people will not splurge excessive savings accumulated over the pandemic, according to a global poll carried out by one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan inspects a military parade following her swearing-in as the country’s first female president on March 19, 2021 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. AFP via Getty Images Nicodemus Minde, United States International University Samia Suluhu Hassan becomes the first female president in Tanzania taking over from President John Magufuli who died […]

Accra, Ghana//-In accordance with Articles 179 and 180 of the 1992 Constitution, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo designated the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and leader of government business in Parliament,  Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu to read the 2021 Budget Statement in Parliament on Friday, March 12, due to the absence of the nominee for Minister for Finance, […]

One year into the Covid-19 crisis, African countries in eastern and southern Africa have been spared the brunt of the pandemic, having recorded 2.1 million cases compared with, for example, close to 20 million in Latin America despite similar size populations.

Accra, Ghana//-Austerity measures are tough measures imposed on citizens to correct economic and financial crises.

Tanzania’s soft-spoken Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Friday was sworn in as the East African country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness shrouded in mystery.

Laureen Kouassi-Olsson and Colin Coleman, who have just joined the advisory board of Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (Arise IIP), say that industrialisation must be one of the engines of growth for the African continent.

Ghana may struggle to raise the full $5bn it wants to borrow from international markets this year given the scale of its debts, analysts say.

Accra, Ghana//-Minority in Parliament has cast doubts in the President’s commitment to build 88 district and 7 regional hospitals by the end of his second term in office.