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Nigeria’s rebased GDP rises, but Africa’s richest title remains elusive

Nigeria’s economy has officially grown larger — at least on paper — but the West African country still remains the continent’s fourth-largest economy, behind South Africa, Egypt, and Algeria. Following a long-awaited GDP rebasing, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revised the country’s nominal output for 2024 to ₦372.8 trillion ($243 billion), up from ₦314 […]

Climate representatives gathered in Kinshasa for pre-COP27 call for more funding

Climate representatives from more than 40 countries who gathered for a pre-COP27 climate summit in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, have called out rich nations for failing to honor a $100bn per year funding pledge to developing countries. Dozens of ministers and senior delegates are in Kinshasa this week for a final meeting […]

Five detained in Tunisia’s Kasserine governorate for organ trafficking

Five people including a Syrian-Turkish national have been arrested for organ trafficking in Tunisia’s impoverished Kasserine province, a judiciary source has told a local media. Slah Eddine Rachdi, prosecutor and spokesperson for the Kasserine Court of First Instance told Mozaique FM Sunday August 13 that the arrest came following an arrest warrant issued Friday August […]