Tag: West-African
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IMF appoints financial supervision adviser for Bank of Ghana
The Bank of Ghana says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has appointed a Swiss-funded financial supervision adviser to provide it with technical support. The bank said this in a statement on Tuesday. The appointment is coming as the West African nation strives to obtain executive board approval for a 3-billion-dollar bailout.
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Burkina Faso Army Captain announces overthrow of military Govt
Burkina Faso army Captain Ibrahim Traore has ousted military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and dissolved the government in the West African country’s second coup in eight months, he said in a statement read on national television on Friday evening. Traore said a group of officers who helped Damiba seize power in January, had decided to…
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Don’t disappoint us, Buhari tells new ECOWAS President
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday received the new President of the ECOWAS Commission and his Management Team, telling them the kind of sub-regional body West African leaders desire and must have. The president told Dr Omar Alieu Touray, the new President and the delegation at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.