Thousands of pregnant girls will attend school in Tanzania as part of a $500-million World Bank loan which had been delayed for years due to the country’s ban on expectant students.
Tanzania’s education minister Joyce Ndalichako said the loan aimed to improve access to and the quality of secondary education...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has approved an immediate debt service relief to 25, including 19 African countries, of the IMF’s member countries under the fund’s revamped Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT).
This relief programme forms part of the fund’s response to help address the impact of...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved the disbursement of SDR 738 million (about US$1 billion) to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF). The disbursement will help address the urgent fiscal and balance of payments needs that Ghana is facing, improve confidence, and...
On a typical workday, hundreds of thousands of men clad in overalls and carrying safety equipment and head lamps assemble at South Africa’s mine shafts. They crowd into cramped elevators to be lowered miles underground, where they hack at seams of gold or platinum and haul ore in intense...
165 past and present leaders say to G20: approve now US$8bn emergency global health funding to prevent second wave of coronavirus
Debt interest payments of poorest countries should be waived now; global fiscal coordination essential to avoid recession becoming depression
Warning that without rapid...
South Africa’s manufacturing output contracted by 1.3 percent year-on-year in March following a revised 0.5 percent expansion in February, the statistics agency said on Thursday.
Statistics South Africa said factory production on a month-on-month basis increased 1.3 percent in March, but shrunk by 1.7 percent in the three months to...
Moroccan national carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), has announced plans to launch flights to five other East African cities only two years after it began its Casablanca-Nairobi operations.
Country manager Othman Baba said the move, inspired by Nairobi experience, is part of RAM’s efforts to claw back a share of...
Ivory Coast will stop distributing hybrid seedlings and other advanced technologies that help cocoa farmers improve yields to cut overproduction that has weighed on cocoa prices, according to a letter by the regulator sent to exporters.
“We inform you of our decision to suspend the distribution of improved plant material...
The Russian Federation, has accessed the US Department of States report, on adherence to and compliance to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments, rejecting and describing it as not containing the truth and full of contradictions.
According to the federation, the report sort to project Russia as a...