Category: Finance

US donates Somalia $9 million worth of weapons, equipment for anti-al-Shabab campaign

January 11, 2023

The United States has provided $9 million in new military aid to help Somalia's ongoing campaign against al-Shabab militants, the US embassy in Mogadishu announced. ... Read More

Rough start to 2023: inflation persists in DRC, Senegal, S.Africa despite measures

January 10, 2023

Inflation constitutes one of the major economic problems all across Africa, with the food prices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Africa ... Read More

Tanzania: Emmanuel Tutuba, new governor of Central Bank

January 10, 2023

Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of Tanzania, has appointed Emmanuel Tutuba as governor of the country’s central bank, in replacement of Florens Luoga, whose five-year tenure ... Read More

US, Türkiye take joint action to disrupt ISIS financing

January 7, 2023

The United States and Türkiye have disrupted ISIS’s ability to finance its operations by designating four individuals and two entities of an ISIS financial facilitation ... Read More

Madagascar: Central Bank Chief resigns, successor named

January 6, 2023

Henri Rabarijohn, the governor of Madagascar’s Central Bank (BFM)) has stepped down from his position on health conditions ground. President Andry Rajoelina has accepted the ... Read More

Angola’s debts to China, a record of over $40 billion

January 4, 2023

The UK's international institute Chatham House revealed that Angola is the African country that has borrowed the most from China in the last 20 years, ... Read More

US delists Burkina Faso from its Africa trade preference program

January 3, 2023

The United States has dropped Burkina Faso from its trade preference program citing deep concerns over “unconstitutional change” in government in the West African country, ... Read More

Angola: Supreme Court orders seizure of assets of daughter of former President

December 28, 2022

Angola's Supreme Court ordered Tuesday the preventive seizure of assets of Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former president Eduardo dos Santos, Africa News reports. The ... Read More

KfW provides Morocco over €52 Mln for new drinking water projects

December 28, 2022

Germany’s Development Bank (KfW) will provide Morocco’s National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) additional €52.6 million including €3.1 million grant for drinking water ... Read More

Tunisia: Inflation to top 10 % in 2023, deepening economic & political crises

December 28, 2022

Inflation will continue to soar in Tunisia reaching 10.5 pc in 2023 against 8.3 pc expected in 2022 deepening further the economic and political crisis ... Read More