Kenya announces plans to stabilize currency
Kenyan Finance Minister Henry Rotich promised further steps, including cutting the budget deficit, to stabilise the currency after a 12 percent fall against the dollar […]
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Botswana: 2015 growth forecast down to 2.6%
Botswana split its 2015 growth forecast due to expected weakness in the diamond market, the finance ministry said in a 2016/17 budget strategy paper on […]
Senegal court denies ex-president’s son appeal
The son of Senegal’s former President Abdoulaye Wade lost a bid to be freed from his six-year prison sentence when the Supreme Court rejected an […]
Guinea Bissau’s Jose Mario Vaz appoints new PM to end crisis
Guinea Bissau President Jose Mario Vaz named a new prime minister on Thursday in a bid to end a power vacuum after he dismissed Domingos […]
Ivory Coast: Gbagbo’s party calls for election boycott
A faction of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo’s party, Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) is boycotting the upcoming October 25 presidential election. The party members called […]
Ghana: Gov’t imports 177 Cuban doctors to lessen impact of strike
The Government of Ghana is set to bring in a total of 177 doctors from Cuba to support healthcare delivery in Ghana. The move forms […]
Angola: fresh restrictions on foreign currency outflows
Foreign investors in Angola face new restrictions on the amount of hard currency they can repatriate, the Central Bank governor said, as regulators seek to […]
Mali: UN declares 20km ‘security zone’ around Kidal amidst clashes
The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali known as MINUSMA said it would establish a 20-kilometre “security zone” around the town of Kidal in restive northern […]
Sierra Leone: No new Ebola case in a week, WHO
The World Health Organization said on Monday that Sierra Leone has not recorded any new case of Ebola since last week; a first since the […]
Zimbambwe: Gov’t issues new labor regulations
President Robert Mugabe’s government last week published a bill seeking to amend the labor law to force employers to pay severance packages to workers fired […]