Burkina Faso has adopted a decree increasing minimum monthly wage to up $75 from $51, few days following talks between Labors Unions and the National council of private employers. The measure, Sika Finance reports, does not apply for the agriculture sector. Labor Unions late last month inked a deal with the country’s private employers’ Council […]
Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya once again clarified Japan’s official position on the Polisario separatist entity at the opening of the ministerial meeting of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) in Yokohama on Tuesday. “I would like to make it clear that the presence at this meeting of any entity that […]
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has officially launched a $170 million power transmission project. The project called the Abuja Feeding Scheme is financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) and provides for building five transmission substations over a 24-month period. The move will help Africa’s most populous nation to stabilize the quality of power […]
