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The components and specifics of Forex Trading

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Forex Market Overview The foreign exchange market, often known as the Forex market, is the most active financial market in the world. To participate in foreign exchange, you use a broker’s platform where you buy/sell (base currency) a forex currency and simultaneously sell/buy another (quote currency). The price of a pair is the amount of the quoted currency necessary to… Read More
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Cape Town’s booming tech industry

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– – Cape Town, the tech hub of Africa, is full of entrepreneurs, new technologies, and start-ups from many different industries. It is very easy to start up a tech company in this city because of the combination of government and business collaboration, a strong infrastructure, a supportive community and the city’s excellent location. There are currently 22 entrepreneurs incubators… Read More
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Nigeria releases new bank notes into circulation

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– – Nigeria has released its new currency into circulation in the first such redesign in 20 years. It is expected to address insecurity, tackle counterfeiting and force excess cash back into the banking system, the government said. Nigeria’s central bank had said more than 80% of the money in circulation was being hoarded by individuals. It has urged people… Read More
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Ghana cedi makes extraordinary gain in months

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– – Ghana’s local currency the cedi has gained more than 12% against the US Dollar to hit its strongest level in two and a half months. This was after the country reached a staff-level agreement over $3 billion with the International Monetary Fund. The currency strengthened to 9.5 to the dollar in a fourth straight session of gains, though… Read More
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Ghana to secure $3 bln IMF loan approval in 2023

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– – Ghana expects to secure a $3 billion loan facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by next year, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said on Tuesday. The West African nation is in serious economic crisis and urgently needs IMF bailout after earlier asserting it won’t turn to the fund for support. It would be the 17th time Ghana is… Read More
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Removing the barriers to remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa

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– – In contrast to the global average of 6.8%, the average cost of remittances to Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 was 8.9% of the transaction’s value. In Sub-Saharan Africa, informal flows are common, and the trend is rampant in several corridors. A formal market that is not operating at its best to meet the needs of people, especially lower-income people,… Read More
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Opinion: Can Africa’s startup sector keep up its record funding run amidst global turmoil?

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– – Startups have become vital engines of change that can have an outsized impact on an economy. They are crucial in fueling innovation and enhancing economic and digital competitiveness. They improve access to products and solutions while significantly contributing to employment. In recent years, amid global economic volatility and uncertainty, Africa’s startup ecosystem has shown continued growth, attracting record… Read More
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NEAR partners with Afropolitan

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– – Afropolitan, the first-ever digital nation empowering Africans to build abundant lives, has partnered with the NEAR Foundation , the non-profit that oversees the development of the ecosystem built around NEAR Protocol, to enable citizens to control their assets, data, and the power of governance. Through this partnership, the NEAR community and Afropolitans will collaborate on several fronts. Afropolitan… Read More
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What you need to know about the AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative

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– – The AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative (GTI) is the latest development designed to boost trade in the Africa’s continent-wide free trade zone. The GTI was launched in October 2022 with the aim of testing meaningful, continuous trade under AfCFTA and to assist in the development of regional value chains that will allow for more climate-friendly, sustainable trade across the… Read More
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African Energy Chamber demands an end to energy colonialism

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A gas field is seen near Zarzaitine in In Amenas,1,600km (994 miles) southeast of Algiers, Algeria. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi A kettle boiled twice a day by the rich and luxurious family of radical leftist group Extinction Rebellion‘s Chloé Farand in the France, uses five times as much electricity as an entire Malian family uses per year. 900 million Africans rely on… Read More