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Ghana’s FDI inflow registers 70 percent increase

Foreign direct investment into Ghana in the first quarter of 2011 grew by over 100% compared to last year, according to the Ghana Investment ... Promotion Centre (GIPC).

New mobile operator to launch in Zimbabwe in June

Spiritage, a new fully-owned Zimbabwean telecoms operator, is set to launch in Zimbabwe by the end of June after investing $25m in a data and ... voice network.

Ethiopia’s escalating inflation rate raises concerns

Ethiopia's Central Statistics Authority has announced that the Horn of Africa country registered a 9 percent increase in inflation between the ... months of April and May 2001. The inflation surge has been blamed on rising food prices in the country.

Ethiopia’s escalating inflation rate raises concerns

Ethiopia's Central Statistics Authority has announced that the Horn of Africa country registered a 9 percent increase in inflation between the ... months of April and May 2001. The inflation surge has been blamed on rising food prices in the country.

Ghana to improve financial service delivery to rural areas

Government of Ghana has secured a €7.5 million funding to support its on-going interbank payment and settlement system to ensure quality delivery ... of financial services, especially to the unbanked and under-banked population.

Forensic Conference tackles white collar crime in Africa

Africa lacks the top quality sleuths who can investigate money laundering, fraud and corruption. New forensic accounting skills are needed to ... curb the vices, according to experts at the 3rd Forensic Conference for Africa underway in Zimbabwe.

Volcanic ash cloud hampers Ethiopian flights

Ethiopian airlines on Tuesday announced that ash clouds from a volcanic eruption on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border, late Sunday, is disrupting flights ... in parts of the Eastern African region.

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Cameroon’s Paul Biya, presiding from the green

stronger together?

Nigeria 2023: After presidential poll defeat, Atiku and Obi unite against Tinubu

the race card

South Africa: Ahead of DA congress, party faces same old questions

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Clinton asks African leaders to distance themselves from Gaddafi

Speaking to African leaders on Monday, in what has been described as the first time a US secretary of state has addressed the full 53-member ... African Union at the commission's headquarters in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Hilary Clinton pleaded with with them to distance themselves from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

U.S. claims credit for Nigeria’s 2011 electoral success

Washington has claimed credit for some of the 2011 election succes in Nigeria. According to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, America ... had offered technical support to Nigeria in the area of conducting credible polls.

Ghana takes further steps to attain MDGs goal Five

A civil sector initiative launched in Ghana to mobilise public funding for the attainment of goal Five of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ... has been hailed in many circles as a major boost.??

Ethiopian plan accepted as Sudan agrees to withdraw troops from Abyei

Leaders from both North and South Sudan have agreed to withdraw their troops from the oil rich Abyei region after hours of talks in the Ethiopian ... capital, Addis Ababa, officials confirmed on Monday.

Zimbabwe records trade deficit

Zimbabwe suffered a US$162.4 million trade deficit in the first quarter of 2011 as the country continues to depend on imported goods, Zimbabwe ... National Statistical Agency has indicated.

Ethiopia: Hilary Clinton to meet Jean Ping and Meles Zenawi

Ethiopian government has bolstered security around Addis Ababa, the country's capital, ahead of Hillary Clinton's visit on Monday. While in Ethiopia, ... the U.S. Secretary of State meet with both Ethiopian and African Union officials.

Ethiopia: AU summit to focus on Sudan’s Abyei

A mini summit that aims to discuss the Sudan crisis, announced on Saturday by the African Union (AU) commission, will take place on June 12 and ... 13 in Addis Ababa, Ehiopia, at the commission's headquarters.

Ethiopia endorses US$ 6 billion budget for 2011/2012

Some US$6 billion budget has been endorsed by Ethiopia's council of ministers for the 2011/2012 fiscal year. It is the Horn of Africa country's ... biggest budget endorsement on record.

Winding path to decent housing for South Africa’s poor

Along the side of a bumpy, dusty road in Motsoaledi sits a concrete stand supporting a water pipe and faucet tap. It is one of 48 taps installed ... by the government throughout the informal shack settlement, says Cat, a young man who serves as guide. That number might sound impressive, except that there are 40,000 people living in Motsoaledi and the taps are their only clean water source. In a few cases where residents are too frail to fetch water from a tap, explains Cat, "we laid pipes to their houses."

Commentary: Nigeria’s Boko Haram and MEND quagmire

Since 2006, militants of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) have threatened Nigeria's national security and civic stability, ... but analysts have described Boko Haram as a bigger danger to Nigeria's multiculturalism and national amalgamation. Espousing a theological framework of social analysis, Boko Haram fervidly opposes the pluralism, tolerance and civic mutuality generated by the survival of the Nigerian state.

Somalia: A refugee crisis without end

Kenya has had enough of the expanding refugee camps, but the ongoing crisis is far from foreign governments' minds. ...

Somalia: A refugee crisis without end

Kenya has had enough of the expanding refugee camps, but the ongoing crisis is far from foreign governments' minds. ...

Maritime piracy and Somalia’s global canker

Maritime piracy, much of it directed against international ships sailing off the coasts of Somalia, claim lives and many millions of dollars ... each year. Wanjohi Kabukuru looks at some of the African and international efforts under way to stem the problem, although ultimately only a lasting political solution on the ground in Somalia itself will be effective.

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