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Legal icon advocates home-grown Nigerian development blueprint

Given its continental leadership responsibility, Nigeria urgently requires an indigenous development blueprint driven by an enlightened human capital

Islamic insurance launched in Mauritius

The British American Insurance (BAI), one of the largest insurance groups in Mauritius, has launched the first insurance policy b a sed on the islamic law

Unemployment rate declines in Mauritius

Mauritius' Central Statistics Office (CSO) has in dicated that the unemployment rate for the second quarter of 2008 stood at 7.4 p e r cent, down from

Namibia’s international arrivals to hit 1m

International arrivals in Namibia's booming tourism sector are expected to hit one million by the end of the year, officials in the tourism sector said.

Nigeria’s foreign reserves drop by US$4.4b

Nigeria's foreign reserves have recorded the biggest drop so far this year, falling from US$64 billion to US$60.4 billion between 4 and 24 August,

Zimbabwean banker to spearhead Kenya’s economic revolution

Zimbabwean economist Aeneas Chuma, who has been appointed the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative to Kenya, will spearhead efforts to transform

Bad roads, high fuel prices raise inflation in EAC

A combination of poor roads to handle sufficient flow o f goods and ever rising fuel prices are key factors responsible for the rising i n flation rate in the East African Community

Frost, bad weather reduce Kenyan tea production

Kenya's annual tea production is expected to fall by abo ut 9 per cent as a result of frost and dry weather conditions registered in the f irst three months of the year, sparking a price rally

Thieves damage sugar company in Mozambique (Corrected)

Theft of irrigation equipment cost the Mafambisse su gar company, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, about 188 million met i cais (about US$ 7.8 million) between January and May

Brazil eyes Mozambique’s energy sector

Brazil is interested in playing a major role in exploiting energy resources in the western Mozambican province of Tete, Mozambican President Armando Guebuza said on Saturday.

Declaration of power emergency may be delayed in Nigeria

The plan by Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua to declare a power emergency this month to galvanise government's efforts to improve the country's worsening power situation may be delayed.

Japan grants 630 million Yen grant to Gambia

Japan has granted 630 mill ion Yen (about US$ 7 million) grant to Gambia to finance a fishing development project in Brikama, some 30 kil o metres south-west of Banjul city
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