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US Millennium Challenge Compact for Senegal among world’s largest – Clinton

Visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said her country's US$540 million Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) for Senegal is one of the largest 

Congo, Angola authorize Chevron to explore joint oil field

Congo and Angola have signed an agreement allowing US oil firm Chevron to explore the oil 

Points of Sale usage still low in Nigeria – survey

The rate of adoption and usage of the Point of Sales (PoS) terminals among Nigerians 

Angola, Congo to sign accord on oil exploration

 Angola's Minister of Petroleum Botelho de Vasconcelos Friday left Luanda for the Republic of Congo to sign an accord on oil exploration between the two countries

World Bank grants Senegal US$85m for power supply

The World Bank has approved US$85 million in funding to help the government of Senegal and the Senegal National Power Utility (SENELEC) to improve

Foreign firms loot hard currencies worth US$1.5 trillion yearly from Africa

 Foreign companies operating in Africa siphon US$ 1.5 trillion illicitly every year from Africa in the form of hard currency, leading to high inflation and deepening

UN Economic Council ends annual dialogue on global issues

The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on Friday wrapped up four weeks of high-level engagement, dialogue, review and deliberation as well as decision

Kenya’s half-year tea output drops 12% on poor weather

 Kenya’s tea production in the first half of this year declined by 12% to 158 million tonnes from 178 million tonnes recorded during the same period in 2011,

Bharti Airtel launches pan-African e-learning programme across Africa

 Leading global telecommunications company Bharti Airtel has announced a partnership with the largest e-learning provider in Africa, The Learning Resources

Dutch airline, KLM, resumes flight to Zimbabwe

Dutch airline, KLM, announced Wednesday it would resume flights to Zimbabwe in October, a route it abandoned in 1999 after business nosedived.

Pegging age-limit of planes at 15 ”will ground 4 Nigerian airlines”

At least four Nigerian airlines will be grounded while many others will be severely affected if the federal government implements its plan to lower the age-limit 

African Trade forum planned to bolster continental free trade plan

Following the authorization, by the African Union (AU) Summit, that a task force be created to drive the formation of a Continental Free Trade Area (CTFA),
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