Tanzania Hands Mining Company $190 Billion Tax Bill Tanzania sent Acacia Mining Plc a tax bill equal to almost two centuries worth of the gold producer’s...
Ghana Cuts Key Rate to Lowest Since 2015 as Inflation Slows Ghana’s central bank reduced its key interest rate for a third straight meeting as consumer...
Zimbabwe Needs $274m for 2018 Election Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will need $274m to finance the 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, in which President Robert Mugabe plans...
Gambia Proposes 6% Budget Cut for 2017 in Bid to Contain Debt Gambia’s government on Thursday proposed a 2017 budget of 12.24 billion dalasi ($266.8 million),...
Abolish Difficult Visa Procedures, Dangote Urges African Leaders For the African continent to attract the required investment into key sectors and achieve economic integration, the President...
Study: Famine Looms in Nigeria, Yemen, Somalia Prolonged conflicts and droughts have left an unprecedented 81 million people needing food aid in 2017, a specialist U.S.-based...
Africa, UAE Sign MoU to Develop African FinTech Ecosystem In order to promote financial inclusion through the acceleration of FinTech across Africa, the Abu Dhabi Global...
Kenya Opposition to Challenge Ballot-Tender Award Kenya’s main opposition group will go to court to challenge the award of a ballot-paper printing contract, the Standard reported,...
OPEC’s Newest Member Calls on African Nations to Join Oil Group Equatorial Guinea, OPEC’s newest member, called on fellow African producers to band together to protect...
CIBN, Liberia Collaborate to Improve Banking Sector The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria has signed an agreement with the Central Bank of Liberia and the...