Tag: economy

The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced plans to borrow $1.75 billion from the World Bank, despite recording a historic 40.5 percent revenue increase in the first eight months of ...

Botswana, once hailed as Africa’s shining economic success story, is now grappling with the harsh realities of overdependence on diamonds. The discovery of gems in 1967 transformed what was then ...

US President, Donald Trump has revoked Secret Service protection for the former Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris. A letter, titled “Memorandum for the Secretary of Homeland Security,” instructs the Secret ...

Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa Cook has filed a lawsuit arguing that United States President Donald Trump has no power to remove her from office, setting up a legal battle that ...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has removed Prime Minister Nadir Larbaoui from office and named Industry Minister Sifi Ghrieb as acting head of government, according to state media reports on Thursday. ...

Cameroon’s government has granted authorisation for its finance minister to secure up to 930 billion CFA francs ($1.67 billion) in domestic and external loans, a move aimed at funding key ...

President Donald Trump’s latest wave of country-specific tariffs has come into force, with dozens of countries facing higher taxes on their exports to the US. The sweeping “reciprocal” levies announced by ...

The recent appreciation of the cedi has created a new challenge for diaspora remittances, with legal expert and governance analyst Prof. Stephen Kwaku Asare warning that the country risks undermining ...

President Karin Keller-Sutter has said that the Swiss government is disappointed by the US tariffs imposed on Switzerland, with the shock 39% figure much higher than expected – and one of the highest rates ...

As warning signs of a potential global recession grow louder, economists are urging Ghana to take proactive steps to shield its economy from looming external shocks. At the 2025 Stanbic ...