Africa

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  • African Development Bank Group, Italy to invest euros 400 mn in Africa’s private sector growth

    Date: 2024-07-30 10:12:42 GMT - Cote d'Ivoire - Africa - SN:26 - ID:10807691

    ABIDJAN, July 30 (MENA) - Italy’s National Promotional Institution Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and the African Development Bank Group plan to jointly invest up to €400 million over five years, to boost the continent’s private sector growth ....

  • Nigeria spends $1.5bn to protect oil installations in four years

    Date: 2024-07-30 09:37:56 GMT - Nigeria - Africa - SN:20 - ID:10807609

    ABUJA, July 30 (MENA) - The Federal Government has spent over $1.5 billion to protect Nigeria’s oil installations and curb crude oil theft, according to Nigerian media reports. George Akume, the Secretary of the Government of the Federation, ....

  • African Development Bank reaffirms support for Guinea’s economic strides

    Date: 2024-07-28 08:59:55 GMT - Cote d'Ivoire - Africa - SN:13 - ID:10804505

    ABIDJAN, July 28 (MENA) - The African Development Bank Group has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Guinea’s efforts to diversify its economy and mobilize domestic resources for crucial development projects. Guinea, a founding member of the ....

  • Business Insider: Egypt tops list of safest countries in North Africa

    Date: 2024-07-27 10:44:39 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:23 - ID:10803325

    PRETORIA, JULY 27 (MENA) - Egypt has topped the list of the safest cities in Africa in mid-2024, scoring 49.3 at the crime index, according to a report issued by the Business Insider Africa newspaper. Africa, like any other continent, has cities ....

  • Death toll in southern Ethiopia mudslides rises to 157

    Date: 2024-07-23 10:51:51 GMT - Ethiopia - Africa - SN:31 - ID:10798316

    ADDIS BABA, July 23 (MENA) - At least 157 people were killed in mudslides in a remote part of Ethiopia that has been hit with heavy rainfall, many of them as they tried to rescue survivors of an earlier mudslide, CBS quoted local authorities as ....

  • Irrigation min. : Promoting work on various bilateral cooperation projects between Egypt, Congo

    Date: 2024-07-19 10:11:39 GMT - Egypt - Africa - SN:25 - ID:10792396

    CAIRO, July 19 (MENA) - Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Sweilem said Friday the meetings of the Joint Steering Committee for the Integrated Water Resources Management Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reached with a ....

  • US welcomes extension of humanitarian truce of DR Congo

    Date: 2024-07-18 06:11:52 GMT - USA - Africa - SN:4 - ID:10790677

    WASHINGTON, July 18 (MENA) - The United States welcomed the 15-day extension of the humanitarian truce committed to by the parties to the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to a press release by the US State ....

  • 45th round of AU Executive Council kicks off Thursday in Ghana

    Date: 2024-07-17 18:07:24 GMT - Algeria - Africa - SN:63 - ID:10790441

    ALGIERS/ ACCRA, July 17 (MENA) – The 45th session of the Executive Council of the African Union will kick off in Ghana on Thursday. The agenda of the two-day ministerial session will tackle a number of financial and administrative issues related ....

  • S. African official: $30-40 billion per annum required for Africa’s energy infrastructure

    Date: 2024-07-16 11:30:19 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:23 - ID:10787942

    JOHANNESBURG, July 16 (MENA) - Deputy Director General for South Africa's Department of Trade Industry Lerato Mataboge said that an approximate US 30-40 billion dollars per annum is required over the next six years for Africa’s energy infrastructure ....

  • South African Electrotechnical Export Council launches Continental Energy Investment Forum

    Date: 2024-07-15 16:37:29 GMT - South Africa - Africa - SN:44 - ID:10786853

    JOHANNESBURG, July 15 (MENA) - South African Export Council launched on Monday the Energy Sector Inward Buying and Investment Mission, which brings high-level delegates from across the continent to Johannesburg and Cape Town from July 15 to 19. ....

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