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 […]
Articles by Geraldine Boechat
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 […]
Guinea Bissau: President names new controversial government
Guinea-Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has named a new government on Monday after dismissing the previous cabinet. Vaz received backing from PRS, the country’s second-largest […]
Al Shabaab seizes towns in Somalia, continues onslaught
The Islamist militant group Al Shabaab took control of a sizeable town in central Somalia on Sunday after African Union forces left the area. It […]
Zambia: ‘We will maintain a flexible exchange rate’ – Central Bank Governor
Zambia’s central bank will not intervene in the foreign exchange market to defend the kwacha, Governor Denny Kalyalya said on Thursday after the currency fell […]
“I plead not guilty”, DRC ‘Terminator’ Ntaganda tells ICC judges
Congo militia leader known as “The Terminator” has pleaded “not guilty” on Wednesday to crimes in a campaign of pillage and murder in northeast Congo’s […]