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Nigeria plans to set up cashew processing plants in four states to add value to the produce and create employment and wealth.
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), has said that inflation has affected the purchasing power of the N30,000 national minimum wage recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) has voiced its displeasure at the recent public statements attributed to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and its president Sebastian Coe attacking World and Olympic Champion Caster Semenya of South Africa.
The South African government on Sunday expressed concern at reports of violence against Malawi nationals in KwaZulu-Natal Province where thugs physically attacked and robbed them of their property before being chased away from their homes.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched an apeal for $122 million to support its humanitarian response over the next nine months to children and families devastated by cyclone IDAI and its consequences in the three affected countries of southern Africa; APA can report on Sunday.
Kenya’s annual inflation increased to 4.35 percent in March as compared to 4.14 percent in February, the statistics office has disclosed.
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) says it will provide a batch of 28,000 liters of ringer serum by Monday to increase measures to contain the laboratory confirmed cholera in the city of Beira, in Mozambique’s Sofala province.
Leading practitioners of social work in Sierra Leone have called for regulation as their ranks gradually swells, amidst a rise in interest in the profession.
South Sudan’s Media Authority has ordered the suspension for 30 days of the Arabic language daily newspaper, Al-Watan, for operating without a valid license.
Botswana’s Minister of Transport and Communications Dorcus Makgato has allayed fears that her country and neighbouring Zambia were headed for a diplomatic row over the suspension of construction of a bridge that links the two neighbouring countries and the region, APA can reveal here Saturday.