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Angolan President Joao Lourenco dismissed Isabel dos Santos as chair of the state oil company Sonangol on Wednesday, in a dramatic move against the family of the former president.

Ghana’s Finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has told the country’s parliament that the government would be focusing on job creation in 2018 during his budget statement presentation.

Two of Ghana’s leading telecommunication companies, Airtel Ghana and Tigo have announced a new brand name AirtelTigo after completing a merger process.

Officials in Ghana have announced that the country will begin supplying its neighbor Burkina Faso with 100 Megawatts of electricity.

The Harare International Airport in Zimbabwe renamed after the country’s long serving leader, Robert Mugabe is to be upgraded with a $153 million loan from China Export and Import Bank.

The AfDB Group's Board of Directors has approved a total AfDB loan of €98.06 million to finance a program of the regional airline, Air Côte d’Ivoire (ACI) to modernize and expand its operations. The loan consists of a €51.16 million sovereign loan, a €42.64 million private sector loan, and an African Development Fund (ADF) loan of €4.26 million.

Ghana is a major producer of Cocoa but it is not a leader in adding value to its Cocoa to produce Chocolate. In Ghana’s splash residential area of East Legon, two sisters are working hard to change this narrative.

The Trump administration has reportedly demanded sale of assets such as CNN before it would approve an $85bn (£65bn) Time Warner and AT&T merger.

Taxi drivers in South Africa on Wednesday embarked on strike as they agitate over the country’s bus rapid transport system and conditions under which they operate.

Nigeria has set out its budget for 2018, aimed at helping the economy recover from its first recession in 25 years.