New York, USA, July 5//-African heads of state have endorsed two major new initiatives to help end AIDS by 2030. One of the initiatives-the community health workers initiative aims to recruit, train and deploy 2 million community health workers across Africa by 2020.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, the leading pan-African banking group and MasterCard, a global payments technology company have announced a partnership which will see UBA act as the issuer for MasterCard in 18 new markets in Africa.
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has agreed to give a $ 20 million credit facility towards the construction of an ultra-modern shopping mall that would serve as a one-stop shop in Kumasi, Ghana.
Orange together with the other members of the ACE consortium, announced the launch of the ACE cable in Cotonou, Benin and Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
The Ebola epidemic will continue to cripple the economies of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone even as transmission rates in the three countries show significant signs of slowing, according to a World Bank Group analysis on the economic impact of Ebola in Africa.
Online money transfer service WorldRemit and telecoms operator MTN have signed a global partnership that will enable WorldRemit customers to send remittances instantly to MTN’s Mobile Money customers.
The number of people facing food insecurity due to the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone could top one million by March 2015 unless access to food is drastically improved and measures are put in place to safeguard crop and livestock production, two UN agencies warned today.
CANADA is to suspend visa applications from residents and passport-holders from West African countries in the grip of the Ebola outbreak.
THE World Bank Group says with the latest death toll from Ebola now at 3,439 in the three worst-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone if the epidemic was to significantly infect people in neighboring countries, some of which have much larger economies, the two-year regional financial impact could reach US$32.6 billion by the […]
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stepped in to provide a total of $130 million of emergency financial assistance to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the three West African countries at the centre of the Ebola epidemic .
