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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has sought the African Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) financial support to implement the Northern Rural Growth Programme (NRGP)...

A major supermarket in Kenya, Nakumatt is facing a huge crisis as it struggles to pay suppliers.The retail chain company which has provided hundreds of...

The chairman of Etisalat Nigeria, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, has resigned from the telecoms company after talks to renegotiate a $1.2 billion loan collapsed, prompting a...

Fourteen illegal miners have been confirmed dead by the Police officials in Western part of Ghana after an abandoned illegal mining pit caved in...

Fighting between the Congolese army and a local militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced Banro Corp's Namoya gold mine to suspend...

His Excellency Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Unilever Global CEO Paul Polman agreed a Joint Vision, outlining their support for the development of a sustainable palm oil industry in Ghana. Under this Joint Vision, Unilever and the Government of Ghana will work together to develop the plantation, support smallholder farmers, and help ensure a positive impact on the local economy.

Ghana's Commercial High Court has dismissed an application by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank Group and...

Nigeria has formally started exporting yam to the European Market according to its  Agriculture Minister Audu Ogbeh.As part of the moves he revealed Nigeria...

Ghana has signed an agreement with China that could lead to a 10 billion dollar investment in Ghana's bauxite industry. The money will also boost the country's infrastructure at a time when economic growth has slowed in recent years. Ghana’s Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Marfo says the Chinese Development Bank will provide the money.This is just the latest development in the growing interest of China in Africa. The extent of that interest has been highlighted in a new report from McKinsey consultancy group. It says that in two decades, China has become Africa’s most important economic partner. Across trade, investment, infrastructure financing, and aid, no other country has such depth and breadth of engagement in Africa".

Widows of four of the nine men executed by Nigeria’s military regime in 1995 have a filed a civil lawsuit in The Hague, Netherlands, accusing Royal Dutch Shell of alleged complicity in a military crackdown.The deaths of the men - known as the Ogoni nine - provoked an international outcry.The lawsuit accuses the oil giant of providing support to the military, which ultimately led to the execution of the men