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    The Chief Executives of the largest companies in Africa will meet in Geneva, Switzerland to network and discuss growth strategies that will see their businesses expand and improve the continent’s economic growth through development of the private sector. Organised by Groupe Jeune Afrique, publisher...

        Ghana’s cedi and South Africa’s rand are depreciating dramatically as the US slows down quantitative easing. But the US’ move is not all bad news for Africa. Earlier this month, the Ghanaian preacher Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams led his followers in prayers for...

      The Chairman of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has requested for a 50,000-hectare of land in Niger to enable the company to cultivate rice and sugarcane. He made the request on Friday in Minna when he visited Gov. Babangida Aliyu at his residence. He said “my visit here is...

        Nigerians In Spain Condemn Spanish Police Shooting of African Immigrants On The High Sea. It was a day that has generated global uproar when on Thursday the 6th of February 2014, the Spanish local border police opened fire on some 200 sub-Sahara African immigrants who were calling for...

      For the last one week, Uganda experienced a biting fuel shortage leading to significant increases in prices of petroleum products and threatened to cripple the economy of the landlocked country. The shortage has been blamed on supply hiccups on the Kenyan petroleum supply system and a new...

      Music superstar Akon has embarked on an ambitious energy project to electrify one million households in nine West and Central African countries by 2014. The Senegalese American celebrity’s project, ‘Akon Lighting Africa’, involves installing solar equipment in rural...

      It took a distraught Lindie Mdluli several days to summon the courage to go to a South African police station after she was raped in 2007. When she got there, Mdluli says that police officers didn’t discuss the kind of investigative DNA work that she had seen on television detective...

      Hours after her release from prison, former Ukrainian prime minister and opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko appeared before an ecstatic throng at the protester encampment in Ukraine’s capital Saturday, praising the demonstrators killed in violence this week and urging the protesters to...

      A community-based organisation working on the promotion and protection of the rights of socially marginalised, vulnerable and disadvantaged women and girls – Women in Rights Awareness and Development (WIRAD) – has been officially launched in Bo. Addressing her audience at the...