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S.Africa’s central bank flags inflation as major risk to domestic financial system

On Wednesday, South Africa’s central bank said the risk of a spillover of the Russia-Ukraine war could hurt the country’s financial stability through rising food and fuel inflation, lower economic.

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Africa risks stagflation due to pandemic, Ukraine war – AfDB

Africa risks sliding into stagflation – a cycle of slow growth and high inflation – as it battles the lingering effects of the pandemic and rising fuel and food prices.

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AFRICA.COM: Live from the World Economic Forum in Davos

This year, Africa Day coincides with the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland.  African leaders, together with world leaders, are gathering to discuss critical issues of.

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National Strike Looms in Tunisia as UGTT Rubuffs President Saied

After refusing to participate in a limited dialogue proposed by the president as he rewrites the constitution, Tunisia‘s powerful labour union announced on Monday that it would hold a national.

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Uganda Issues its First Electronic Passports to Citizens

Uganda has become the first country in East Africa to issue electronic passports to its residents. After the government phased out the old document readers, those who have not yet.

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C.A.R to Launch Bitcoin Investment Platform Called ‘Sango’

The Central African Republic’s presidency announced the establishment of the continent’s first legal Bitcoin Investment Platform called ‘Sango’, extending the impoverished country’s embrace of digital finance despite warnings from the.

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WHO Chief Tedros Reappointed to Second Five-Year Term

Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was re-elected as head of the World Health Organization, WHO, for a second five-year on Tuesday. The director-general received more than two-thirds of the votes cast.

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Africa objects to U.S. push to reform health rules at WHO Assembly

African countries objected on Tuesday to a U.S.-led proposal to reform the International Health Regulations (IHR), a move delegates say might prevent passage at the World Health Organization’s, WHO, annual.

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Investing in the African Youth to Foster Development

The justification for youth development is captured in the words of former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo who stressed that youths are the foundation of a society. Their innovativeness, character, willpower.

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Egypt’s Suez Canal Revenue Expected to Hit $7 Billion by Year-end

Egypt’s Suez Canal is expecting revenues worth around $7 billion by the end of the current financial year. According to Egypt’s finance minister, Mohamed Maait, tourism revenues are predicted to.

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