Tag: economy

Uganda’s debt profile has taken a sharp turn, with government figures showing a 26.2% rise in total public debt during the 2024/2025 financial year. The finance ministry’s annual report on ...

COPEC urges Ghana’s Oil Marketing Companies to absorb part of looming fuel price hikes to protect consumers

Trade unions in France have made a rare show of unity as teachers, transport workers, hospital staff, pharmacists and public sector workers go on strike. The strike is meant to ...

South Africa’s annual consumer inflation slowed to 3.3% in August, easing from 3.5% the previous month, as declines in goods and services prices offered some relief, Statistics South Africa reported ...

The recent weakening of the Ghana Cedi against major foreign currencies is not a sign of a collapsing economy but rather a natural adjustment, according to economist Professor Godfred Bokpin.  ...

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. ...