APA

Sierra Leone has announced plans to establish a dedicated school that will train career diplomats in line with the goal of the current government’s foreign policy of development and economic diplomacy.

The United Arab Emirates-based AMEA Power, an energy producing giant, is exploring investment opportunities in Sierra Leone, a top official disclosed on Tuesday.

Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Audu Ogbeh, has said that the Nigerian government will ban the importation of tomato paste into the country before the end of this year.

Nigeria’s Minister of Budget and National Planning, Mr. Udo Udoma, has said the Nigerian economy will grow by 3.01 percent this year as against the 2 percent forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The Flying Eagles of Nigeria was on Tuesday forced to a goalless draw by their South African counterparts in the second match of Group A in the ongoing CAF U-20 Nations Cup in Niger.

Private schools in Mauritania on Tuesday demanded a “consensual and applicable” formula that grants them facilities to pay their taxes, required by the taxman under penalty of closure.

Ghana’s opposition MPs on Tuesday walked out of parliament in protest as Mrs Lydia Seyram Alhassan was being sworn in as the representative for Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in Accra.

Eighteen inmates are now known to have escaped from the Mbaïki prison, 110 km southwest of the Central African Republic capital Bangui.

Rwandan Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente on Tuesday praised Interpol for what he called its outstanding role in addressing common and emerging international crimes linked to his country and the rest of Africa.

Uganda’s annual headline inflation for the month ending January stands at 2.7 percent compared to 2.2 percent recorded in December last year.