Goddy Ikeh
Hundreds of traders in Merkato, the biggest open-air market in Africa, have embarked on strike action, causing significant business disruptions in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.
The pan-African NGO Afrique Espérance has hailed the referendum in Gabon on November 16, 2024, saying that it was “peaceful and inclusive”, and a demonstration of the sustainability of the legislative framework for the 2025 presidential elections.
The Senegalese capital celebrated on Friday the 60th anniversary of the construction of the Great Mosque of Dakar, an emblematic monument inaugurated on March 27, 1964 by King Hassan II of Morocco and Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first President of Senegal.
The Financial Services Industry led the activity chart this week on the floor of the Nigerian Exchange with 1.041 billion shares valued at N16.207 billion traded in 21,099 deals.
Ethiopia’s Civil Society Organizations Authority on Thursday announced the ban of two organizations known for their human rights work, the Center for the Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD) and the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE).
The price of OPEC basket of 12 crudes stood at $73.32 a barrel on Thursday, November 21, 2024, compared with $73.05 the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convened a high-level consultative meeting in Accra to deliberate on the update of its Regional Infrastructure Master Plan (RIMP).
The ECOWAS Commission and Plan International Inc, a non-profit organisation registered in the State of New York, United States of America, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday, November 21. 2024, in Abuja, Nigeria, to promote and strengthen their cooperation to better protect children and young people, particularly girls and young women, through the promotion of their rights in all development sectors and humanitarian contexts common to both organisations.
The OPEC Fund for International Development (the OPEC Fund) has signed a US$40 million loan as part of a US$394 million sustainability-linked loan for ETC Group (ETG), one of Africa’s largest agricultural commodity supply chain managers.
The Managing Director of the Bank of Industry (BoI), Mr. Olasupo Olusi, says that the Bank has raised new funding package worth €2 billion through global loan syndication to improve its financial capacity to support a wide range of development initiatives.