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By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra- The authorities of Benin Republic dispatched a delegation to hunt President Muhammadu Buhari’s intervention for Nigeria to assist the nation produce rice. The goal was to cease smuggling and rice importation within the two international locations. The Benin...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Published on Monday March 15th, 2021, Burkina Faso is to obtain a new large-scale renewable energy plant, Located some 250km South-East of the country’s capital city of Ouagadougou, close to the town of Pâ. The new solar energy...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Zambia’s President Lungu encouraged ZARI to Promote Growers with better seed variations in a bid to foster bumper Harvest on their Farming Enterprise, President Lungu advised agriculturist to take advantage of the...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra- Ethiopia and COMESA have signed a 5.6 million Euro sub-delegation agreement to improve coordinated border management, trade and transport facilitation at the Moyale and Galafi border posts. Moyale and Galafi borders link Ethiopia on one hand to Kenya and...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra- The African Development Bank has approved two grants for research that will increase African women’s access to a range of digital financial services including loans and micro-insurance. The grants, for $1 million and $300,000 respectively, will be disbursed...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– The scheme to localize the possession of Namibian mining licenses discerns them culmination 2020 of an assessment of the Mining Act which encompasses prospecting and mining activities. The ministry declared openly in a press...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone–  The South African Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has announced the merger of Central Energy Fund (CEF) subsidiaries iGas, PetroSA and the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF). The unification will be active from April...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Accra- Tanzania’s State power utility firm will supply 70 megawatts of electricity to power first phase of the standard gauge railway (SGR), and will start operations in the coming months. Energy Minister Medard Kalemani said, construction of power lines...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura– NEW AFRICA BUSINESS NEWS (NABN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Allied Air of Nigeria, begets a Boeing 737-800 freighter jet, greatly to the pleasure of the Minister of Aviation – Hadi Sirika and the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, amongst others. Specifically, the recent...