Tens of thousands of people are continuing to flee insecurity in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, challenging the ability of the government and its humanitarian partners to…
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Five Ghanaians have been kidnapped by pirates who boarded the ship at 35 nautical miles off the Agbano Terminals in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria.…
The authorities in the north-western Nigerian state of Kaduna say at least 16 people have been killed and an unspecified number of others abducted during multiple…
The Zimbabwean government has finally sealed a pay deal with its restive employees after the workers agreed to a 41 per cent salary hike. The pay…
French police have cleared a large migrant camp north of Paris, evicting about 2,000 people who had been living in “miserable conditions,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin…
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Two bodies of illegal gold miners were retrieved from a collapsed mineshaft on Sunday in the eastern Mutasa District of Zimbabwe and 10 others are feared…
The International Debt Statistics 2021 report by the World Bank shows that between 2009 and 2019, countries in the region increased external borrowing by nearly four times, from $19.9 billion to $73.8 billion.
El-Said further explained that “public investments in Sohag governorate are distributed across different sectors, with EGP 2.5bn for housing and utilities sector, EGP 1.56bn for local development, EGP 444m for health care, EGP 240m for higher education, and EGP 640.4m for other sectors.”
The mining sector already accounts for 60% of Zimbabwean exports, raking in around US$$1 billion a year, and represents half of the country’s foreign direct investment.