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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala set to take historic role as WTO boss

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– – Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is set to take up the role of the first woman, and first African Director-General of the World Trade Organization. In October 2020, she secured 104 out of 164 votes to become the first African to head the World Trade Organization. Okonjo-Iweala who was the only African left in the race beat South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee for… Read More
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African Union welcomes Libyan interim unity government

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– – The African Union has welcomed the setting up of a Libyan interim unity government which is expected to oversee elections in December this year. Delegates at a UN-led forum voted for a three-member presidential council as well as a prime minister. Mohamed Younes Menfi, a former ambassador to Greece, will be the head of the presidency council. Abdul… Read More
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Gambia: Tension heightens over reported return of Yahya Jammeh

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– – There is tension in the Gambia among citizens over the reported return of former President Yahya Jammeh. Several media reports have suggested that Jammeh has been spotted in Guinea heading to The Gambia. The reports also indicate that his supporters have started cleaning his Kanilai home and farm in anticipation of his return. But in a strongly worded statement, the Gambia Government said… Read More
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Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo re-elected as ECOWAS Chair

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– – Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo on Wednesday was re-elected as Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In a statement the authority said the Ghanaian President will serve another one-year term as Chair of ECOWAS. It said “the Authority calls on His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,… Read More
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Here are 20 of Africa’s best countries to do business

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The World Bank Group has a major flagship publication which it publishes every year called the Doing Business report. The 2020 publication is the 17th in a series of annual studies measuring the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business, according to World Bank “presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that… Read More
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Nigeria’s Odion Ighalo completes Saudi move

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– – Former Nigeria striker Odion Ighalo, whose loan spell at Manchester United ended recently, has completed a move to Saudi Arabian Pro League club Al Shabab. The 31-year-old has left Chinese outfit Shanghai Shenhua after agreeing a two-and-a-half-year deal with the six-time Saudi champions. Ighalo has already taken to social media to say his goodbyes to his parent club after… Read More
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Ghana: 15 MPs and 56 parliamentary staff infected with Covid-19

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– – Ghana’s parliament has announced that at least 15 lawmakers and 56 other parliamentary staffers have tested positive for Covid-19. The rate of infection was detected following a mass testing of legislators and workers at the legislature. Speaker of Ghana’s parliament Alban Kingsford Bagbin had threatened to publish names of MPs who showed up in the chamber despite their… Read More
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African leaders to focus on Covid-19 and conflicts at AU summit

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– – African leaders are expected to focus on the continent’s COVID-19 response at a virtual summit this weekend, as well as pressing security crises that have gone overlooked during the pandemic. The two-day African Union summit comes almost exactly one year after Egypt recorded the first case of COVID-19 in Africa, prompting widespread fears that member states’ weak health… Read More
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Kenyan consumer sentiment displays pockets of potential

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– – With Kenya having passed the second peak in the country’s COVID-19 pandemic during November 2020 and the accompanying successful mitigation of case numbers and deaths; the NielsenIQ Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for Quarter 4, 2020 saw a slight improvement of 1 point to 98, albeit it with pockets of sign improved sentiment. NielsenIQ Managing Director East Africa Faith Wanderi comments;… Read More
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Mummies with golden tongues found by archaeologists

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– – An Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission working near Alexandria has discovered mummies from around 2,000 years ago bearing golden-tongued amulets, the Egyptian authorities said on Wednesday. “The mission discovered 16 tombs cut into the rock… in the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of Alexandria” in northern Egypt, the antiquities ministry said in a statement, adding that the burial technique was… Read More
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