Angola: Top African beverage can producer targets 100% market share
The Johannesburg-based Nampak Ltd., Africa’s largest maker of beverage cans, said it’s considering an expansion to a drinks container plant in Angola as part of […]
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Cameroon: Five killed in twin suicide bombings
Twin suicide bombings killed at least five people, including two young female bombers, in northern Cameroon on Sunday, according to the minister of communication Issa […]
Kenya: Gov’t closes schools over teachers’ strike
Kenya’s education ministry on Friday ordered all public and private schools to close down because of a three-week teachers’ strike over delayed pay. According to […]
Zambia to export power in a year
Zambia’s government is taking measures to ease power shortages and the southern African nation will be a net exporter of electricity within 12 to 13 […]
Mali: Weakening manufacturing output to slow economy to 4.9 %
Mali’s economic growth is set to slow this year to 4.9 percent, because of weakening manufacturing output, despite a strong harvest, the International Monetary Fund […]
Zimbabwe: Mugabe delivers wrong speech to MPs, opposition questions his mental health
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe read out the wrong speech at the opening session of parliament on Tuesday, apparently unaware that he was delivering the same […]
Ghana: Central Bank increases benchmark interest rate
The Bank of Ghana increased the policy rate by 1 percentage point, Governor Kofi Wampah told reporters in the capital, Accra after the 66th regular […]
Cameroon: suspected Boko Haram attacks kill 7
At least seven people were killed in two bomb attacks on Sunday, in the northern Cameroonian town of Kolofata, government officials said. According to the […]
Cote d’Ivoire-Burkina rail link: Bolloré Africa Logistics injects €30 Mln
The French company Bolloré Africa Logistics said it had invested €30 million to buy new trains for the freight and passenger line it operates between […]
Zimbabwe: IMF forecasts lower growth after exports dropped
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday lowered Zimbabwe’s growth forecast for this year to 1.5 percent from 2.8 percent, blaming lower commodity exports of […]