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Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to rise to 2.9 percent in 2020, the World Bank said Tuesday in its January 2020 Global Economic Prospect report. The bank cited improved investor confidence in some large economies, easing of energy hurdles, a rise in oil production, which led to recovery in oil exporters as indicators. It also mentioned robust growth among… Read More

Tunisia continues the struggle to establish a government. Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli last week formed a coalition government of independent lawmakers, but the Tunisian parliament on Friday rejected it in a confidence vote, prolonging the political deadlock. Africanews correspondent Massinissa Benlakehal explains the situation from Tunis. @NyashaKMutizwa Read More

Two armed groups in the lawless Menaka region of central Mali signed an accord on Sunday to join forces to fight insecurity, stepping in where government and international efforts have largely failed. Alexis Kalambry, the publishing editor of the Mali Tribune, tells us more. @NyashaKMutizwa Read More

Niger’s president has fired the army’s chief of staff after attacks against security forces have killed at least 174 security force members since December. President Issoufou Mahamadou’s action on Monday came after the death toll from an attack by Islamic extremists on Niger’s military last week rose to at least 89, making it the most deadly attack of its kind… Read More

The electricity company of Congo known as the Énergie électrique du Congo (EEC) in the Republic of Congo says it is undertaking an inventory of its clientele. The aim of the operation is to clean up its files to and weed out consumers connected to the power grid fraudulently. The operation, according to managers, could help relief the populations of… Read More

CAF champions league 2020, group matches heating up last weekend as the men begin separating themselves from the boys, TP Mazembe and Mamelodi Sundowns already into the quarter finals, we shall be having the complete results of the CAF inter club competitions played across the continent . In today’s show we have a litany of sports reporters across Africa who are… Read More

Lamine Diack, the ex- IAAF president charged with corruption and doping cover-ups while he ran the track and field, has vowed to clear his name when his trial opened in Paris Monday. At the opening of the hearing, the prosecution asked that the two-week trial be delayed to weigh new evidence received from Senegal, where Diack was born and his… Read More

The Turkish foreign and defence ministers met head of Libya’s UN-backed government in Moscow Monday. Mevlüt Çavu-şo-ğlu and Hulusi Akar sat down for talks with Fayez Sarraj as part of a series of meetings after a truce proposed by Russia and Turkey that began Sunday. It’s the first break in fighting in months. Russia is hosting the meetings which are… Read More

The death toll from a terrorist attack on a military camp in western Niger three days ago has risen to 89, according to a new toll announced by the government on public radio on Sunday. Three days of national mourning have been declared to honour the dead. Zakaria Abdourahame, government spokesman said: “The response with the combined air support of… Read More

Ghana opposition parties have formed the Inter-Party Resistance Against the New Voter Register (IPRAN) and have called for a series of demonstrations across Ghana from 11-28 January over a new biometric electoral roll for the December 2020 general elections. Their grievances are not just the $147M cost of the project, but the lack of transparency and concerns over the addition… Read More