Tag: africa
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Africa loses $7bn to $15bn yearly to climate change – Adesina
Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the Group President, African Development Bank (AfDB), said Africa is losing about seven to 15 billion dollars annually to the ravages of climate change. Adesina said this during a media conference in Nairobi on the sidelines of the ongoing AfDB Annual Meetings 2024.
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Our Father, this Africa Day, liberate us from military bases – By Owei Lakemfa
OUR Father, we your children in Africa come to you this day, the eve of the May 25, Africa Liberation Day. We have been enslaved and colonised. We have survived the genocide of our traducers who in Congo
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Austria supports UK plan to send migrants to Africa
Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Tuesday said Austria will campaign in the European Union for a new migration policy in which asylum procedures would take place in African countries if necessary. He made his comments after a working meeting in Vienna with British Prime
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Business diplomacy and Africa’s development – By Etim Etim
From May 16 to 17, over 2,000 of Africa’s business leaders, investors, policy makers and political leaders as well as their counterparts from around the world met in Kigali, Rwanda under the auspices of the Africa CEO Forum 2024 to discuss the continent’s development, opportunities and challenges.
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Business Guru, Economist Tony Elumelu proposes Africapitalism for solution to Africa’s problems
Business guru and Economist Tony Elumelu has championed the cause for Africapitalism as the ideal solution to Africa’s underdevelopment. The Entrepreneur will be speaking for Africa at a conference in Abu Dhabi, London and Rome in the next few days.
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Nigeria’ll continue to play strategic roles in Africa – Tinubu
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu says Nigeria will continue to play strategic roles in the affairs of the African continent at all times. Tinubu said this on Friday while receiving the letters of credence from the Ambassadors of Egypt, Pakistan and Greece in Abuja.
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11 things to know about Africa’s youngest President-elect, Faye
Bassirou Diomaye Faye has emerged as Senegal’s President-elect after an unprecedented victory at the presidential election on Sunday, March 24, 2024. Provisional results showed the opposition candidate, Faye had about 53.7%, while former Prime Minister and ruling coalition’s candidate, Amadou Ba, secured 36.2% based on tallies from 90% of polling stations in the first-round vote,…
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Tinubu approves establishment of Africa-CDC regional Centre in Nigeria
President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the Regional Coordinating Centre (RCC) of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa-CDC) in Nigeria. Tinubu is the African Union (AU) Champion for Human Resources for Health and Community Health Delivery Partnership.
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AfDB report puts Africa’s GDP at 3.8% in 2024
The real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for Africa is expected to average 3.8 per cent and 4.2 per cent in 2024 and 2025. The African Development Bank (AfDB) said this in its latest Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook (MEO) report.
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UK spent £300m on security, stability in Africa in 2023 – Minister
The UK Government said it spent more than 300 million pounds sterling delivering programmes and peacekeeping in Africa in 2023 to strengthen security and ensure stability. The UK Minister of State, Cabinet Office, Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe, disclosed this in Abuja