About 20 Dakar-bound passengers of Air Senegal were stra nded at the Banjul International Airport, Gambia, following the third cancellati o n of their flight, without any plausible reason, PANA was reliably informed here Monday. Sources told PANA the passengers booked to travel on the airline
With Nigeria's power generation at perhaps an all-time low, President Umaru Yar'Adua announced Friday in Paris that his administration would formally declare an emergency in the country's power sector next month, the Nigerian state house said in a statement here.
The creation of a common market in West Africa is critic al to the effective integration of ECOWAS member-states in the global market, Pr e sident of the commission, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has declared In his keynote address at the ECOWAS anniversary dinner/lecture, held here recen tly
Japanese Prime Minister Yasao Fakuda has pledged to doub le international assistance to Africa and bolster direct investments in Africa's industrial sector through increased financial assistance and participation of Ja p anese private enterprise.
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) is set to expand its branch network to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gabon, Kenya and Burundi before the end of the year as part of its strategy of becoming truly a pan African bank, according to the Bank Group's
Egypt's landline operator Telecom Egypt (TE) said in a sta tement Wednesday that they will help construct a US$ 700 million undersea cable s ystem that links Europe, the Middle East and India. The deal is part of a global consortium.
The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) G roup, Donald Kaberuka, Sunday met with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhad e m, according to a government statement received here
A UK-based charity has warned that the controversial Economic Partner Agreements (EPAs) will hurt the poor in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
Civil Society groups on Mond ay told the UN Conference on T rade and Development (UNCTAD) to focus on topical issues affecting the world.These include the food crisis; finance and development; climate change; migratio n; trade agreements
The Democratic Republic of Congo requires US$14 billion to provide necessary infrastructure in various sectors of the economy, according to Planning Minister Olivier Kamitatu. Speaking in Kinshasa Thursday, at the official launch of the programme
The continued increase in the prices of foodstuffs in Egypt has sparked worries by concerned citizens of the North African nation.In recent months, the prices of milk, rice, sugar and a number of other essentials have been on the upward swing
African Development Fund (ADF), the concessional lending arm of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, is to give loans and grants totaling 167.8 million Units of Account (UA), about US$263.76 million, to Kenya, Madagascar and the Gambia
