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Google’s parent company Alphabet has said that over the next five years it aims to train 10 million people in Africa so as to enable them to gain online skills that will make t... >>
Asian community in Kenya, which has long petitioned the government to grant them a separate tribal status, were gratified last week with the official announcement that Kenyans of Asi... >>
Despite being blessed with plenty of agriculture land and weather that allows for year-round profitable cash crop production, Nigeria is still not self-sufficient in food and spends ... >>
After weeks of waiting in a village close to Eritrea's border with Sudan, one night, Yobieli finally managed to sneak across the border without the help of a smuggler.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is losing a fifth of all of mining revenues because of corruption and mismanagement, said Global Witness, the international NGO that works to b... >>
Early next month, Rwandans will be going to polls and the country has budgeted US$7 million for a process targeting just over five million voters. Rwanda spent about $9 million durin... >>
Over a month after the economy slid into recession, South Africa’s Minister of Finance, Malusi Gigaba, has revealed an ambitious 14-point growth plan that includes sale of non-... >>
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced plans to recover approximately US$144 million in assets from Nigerian oil executives following alleged corruption.
The assets inc... >>
Realization that inequalities generated by globalization and free-trade are not being effectively addressed has fueled political rhetoric in favor of protectionism and anti-trade pop... >>
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