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NIGERIA: EDO FARMERS, INVESTORS TO GET N500M CREDIT

The Edo State government in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is to set up a N500 million Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS), to provide credit for agribusiness.

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NIGERIA: NCAA WARNS AIR TRAVELERS OF DISRUPTION OF FLIGHTS

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has warned air travellers in Nigeria that flights would be disrupted due to harmattan haze, which has already led to flight cancellations and delays..

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KENYA: PRESIDENT KENYATTA DIRECTS KENYAN EMBASSIES TO ISSUE VISAS AT POINTS OF ENTRY

Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed that all Africans wishing to visit Kenya should be issued with visas at various points of entry. President Kenyatta made this public during.

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KENYA: GOVERNMENT PROPOSES $2 BILLION EUROBOND SALES

Kenya’s government is seeking proposals from banks about a possible $2 billion Eurobond offering in the first quarter of 2018, according to two people familiar with the matter. The country’s.

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RWANDA: GOVERNMENT OFFERS TO HELP 30,000 STATELESS VICTIMS OF IMMIGRATION

Rwanda could host up to 30,000 stateless African immigrants currently stuck in their sojourn to Europe where they are exposed to all forms of abuse, including being sold openly in.

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NIGERIA: FIRST NIGERIAN CIVILIAN VICE-PRESIDENT PASSES ON AT 85

· Ekwueme, who celebrated his 85th birthday on October 21, was reported to have collapsed at his home on October 29 and was rushed to Memfys Hospital of Neurosurgery, flown.

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Nigeria: FG to spend N458M on Malaysian Consultants

Nigeria’s Federal Government has concluded plans to engage consultants from Malaysia to help Nigeria build her economic capacity. The consultants are to conduct a study that would aid the implementation.

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Rwanda to Invest $50 Million on Renewable Energy

· $50 million to catalyse private sector’s investment in off-grid energy solutions. · To increase electricity access in the country by about 19 percent. · The fund will allow a.

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South Africa: Opposition hails Suzman at 100

Mmusi Maimane, the leader of Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s main opposition party on Tuesday praised Helen Suzman for her role in chipping away “the edifice of apartheid South Africa, by.

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BURKINA FASO PRESIDENT CALLS FOR COMPAORÉ’S EXTRADITION

President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso has called on France to extradite the brother of his ousted predecessor – Blaise Compaoré despite the fact that the death penalty.

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