Ghana: 3 week striking doctors resume work today
Members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) who embarked on a three-week long strike to demand codified conditions of service will resume work on Monday. […]
Articles by Steven Addamah
Kenya plans to borrow $328 million to finance Mombasa port expansion
The Kenya Ports Authority plans to borrow 34 billion shillings ($328 million) to finance the expansion of East Africa’s biggest harbor on the southeast coast, […]
Senegal-Gabon: BGFI Bank officially begins operations
Gabonese lender BGFI Bank SA, which operates in 10 countries, announced in a press release having officially started its activities in Senegal after winning a […]
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 […]
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 […]