Category: Production

COTONOU, BENIN – Benin set up a service early in the COVID-19 pandemic to allow people to register their business online, and now the West African country is the world’s fastest place to start a business, according to a U.N. agency. Sandra Idossou, own…

Zambia’s newly elected President Hakainde Hichilema says he plans to unveil a set of economic policies aimed at solving the mineral-rich country’s deep economic problems after he takes office next week. Hichilema, one of Zambia’s most successful busine…

For those living in rural Zambia, poverty rates were stubbornly high, impacting as much as 78 percent of the population and disproportionately?affecting adolescent girls and women. Although the country had achieved close to universal access to primary …

Since the end of World War II, states and international organizations have deployed nearly 200 peace operations involving military contingents, and they remain the principal international mechanism for managing armed conflict. A closer look at the last decade of peace operations—from 2010 to 2020—highlights ten macro-level trends which can help us understand some of the […]

ABIDJAN, March 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Africa’s economic recovery could be jeopardised by a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in 2021 according to the latest Economic Update released by the African Development Bank. In its latest forecast, AfDB projects real GDP in Africa to grow by 3.4 percent in 2021, after contracting by 2.1 percent in 2020. […]

Sudan took another big step this week toward rejoining the international community and losing its label as a pariah state by officially signing an agreement to normalize relations with Israel. Sudan, which once hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, had already agreed to improve relations with Israel but made it official on Wednesday when visiting […]

DAKAR – Wood and charcoal burning account for 50% of Senegal’s household energy consumption, contributing to air pollution and deforestation. To reduce ecological damage, an association called Nebeday, which means “tree” in Wolof, the predominant local language in Senegal, hires villagers to produce an innovative energy alternative. Half of Senegal’s households rely on wood or […]