Zambians Dissatisfied With Their Economy and the Country's Overall Direction

PAHO chief urges Caribbean to prepare to manage COVID-19 for next two years

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (CMC) — Director of the Pan American Health Organisation, Dr Carissa F Etienne is urging Caribbean countries as well as those in the Americas to prepare to manage the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic closely for the next two

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Caribbean islands will need to be treated differently after COVID-19 | New York Carib News

Social and environmental vulnerabilities facing the Eastern Caribbean

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Source: The New York Carib News

Virus: Insurance premiums fall Sh806m in Q1

Virus: Insurance premiums fall Sh806m in first quarter

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Source: Business Daily

Pension savings hold key to home ownership

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Source: Business Daily

NAPIER: Kenya ought to review its tax incentive model

Kenya ought to review its tax incentive model

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Source: Business Daily

Pension funds tax: Panic or hunt for revenues?

The push to suspend interest income on pension funds’ holdings of government securities to shore up Covid-19 projects seemed

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Source: Business Daily

Africa: Together, African Countries Have Enough to Fight COVID-19

Africa can mount a stronger COVID-19 response strategy by using regional trade blocs to coordinate, consolidate, and connect resources across the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Earth Today | Clarendon farmers apply local technology to boost climate-smart agriculture

It allows farmers to access high-resolution weather forecasts, agronomic tips, and information on climate-smart agricultural practices, and compares specific crop prices at three of the major markets in Jamaica – Coronation, May Pen, and

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

World Bank lends Kenya Sh4.5bn for locusts fight

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Source: Business Daily

Uganda: Post COVID-19 Financing Options

Business experts say that in the 60 or so days that people were forced into their homes and with no sources of income, there are chances that business owners especially small ones 'ate their

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa’s GDP growth projected to drop below zero

Africa's projected gross domestic product growth of 3.2 per cent for 2020 is now expected to fall further to -0.8 per cent due to prolonged partial and total lockdown of countries brought on by the Covid-19

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Source: The East African

KABATA: Key models for business recovery after virus

What this means is that unlike economic slowdowns that we have witnessed before such as the 2008/2009 recession, the Covid-19 induced slowdown may require a different economic recovery thinking and modelling because it is not only affecting the demand side as people lose jobs and incomes but has

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Source: Business Daily

Stars gather for online festival to combat hunger in Amazon rainforest

More than a million Brazilians have been diagnosed with COVID-19, many of them indigenous people in the Amazon

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Source: Dallas Post Tribune – Serving the Black community without fear or favor since 1947.

Mboweni wants sweeping changes to South Africa's budget

Image: GCIS

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Source: TechCentral

Africa: Digitalizing Sub-Saharan Africa - Hopes and Hurdles

In the latest analytical chapter for the Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa,the IMF's African department* examines how digitalization can transform economies and

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Source: allAfrica.com

Egypt: As Lockdown Clears the Air, Cairo Looks to Keep Pollution Low

But the slowdown also has cut air pollution by more than a third in Cairo, a city once ranked as one of the world's 10

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Source: allAfrica.com

World Bank approves $55m grant for Somalia

The World Bank Board has approved a $55 million International Development Assistance (IDA) grant for Somalia to fast track economic recovery and policy

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Source: The East African

Namibia: State of The Nation Address by His Excellency Dr. Hage G. Geingob, President of The Republic Of Namibia

Windhoek

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Source: allAfrica.com

Bank of Sierra Leone stimulus package and its impact on the economy

Devastating as this pandemic is, there is an opportunity for the government of Sierra Leone to fundamentally change the direction of the local economy by offering an economic response that is not only proportionate to the scale of the disruption, but one that is bold and big enough to define a new

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

DIAZ: Stimulus package good for business confidence

Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Patrick Njoroge, citing an April study by McKinsey, recently warned that three quarters of the country’s MSMEs could fold by the end of June without optimal support by

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Source: Business Daily

'Money by nature': Tanzania miner pockets $3.4m for two gemstones

Tanzania’s government bought the book-sized stones weighing 20 pounds (9 kg) and 11 pounds (5 kg) from miner Saniniu Laizer for

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

'Half a decade of lost output': The grim toll on SA of Covid-19

South Africa stands to lose five years of potential economic output due to the shock from the coronavirus pandemic and measures to curb its spread, according to the Reserve

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Source: TechCentral

Nigeria: World Bank - With More Transparency, Govt Recovers U.S.$3 Billion From Oil Sector

The World Bank and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), the global standard for the promotion of openness in the oil, gas and mineral resources management, have said Nigeria has so far recovered about $3 billion as a result of more transparency in the

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria Loses N125bn Oil Revenue to COVID-19 As Price Slumps in Q1

The shortfall, attributed to the double whammy of the headwind caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the slump in oil price due to a sharp drop in demand and price war between two powerful producers, Russia and Saudi Arabia, representing a 31 per cent of the prorated oil revenue

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Source: allAfrica.com

Munich’s annual Oktoberfest canceled for first time since World War II

MUNICH—Drinking alone may not be good for you, but in times of corona—the virus, not the beer—drinking with thousands of revelers in a packed tent at a beer festival wouldn’t be a great idea

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Source: South Florida Times

California After COVID – Recovery is Not Good Enough

By Senator Steven Bradford, Special to CalMatters and California Black Media Partners

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

Nigeria coronavirus: 16,085 cases, resident docs strike

Total confirmed cases = 16,085

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Uganda: Which Economic Stimulus Works?

Yet according to the latest global assessment from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, these stimulus measures may not boost consumption and investment by much as policy makers are

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa: What About Africa's Small, Medium Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

In some of these countries we're seeing an increase in cases and in others, new cases remain stable from week to week, indicating we need to remain vigilant to stop the spread of COVID-19," Moeti

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Source: allAfrica.com

Sierra Leone needs $309 million to address COVID-19 impact on the economy – says government

“To alleviate this impact, fund the Quick Action Economic Response Programme, the Health Programme and the Social Impact Programme the Government is seeking: Additional emergency support from the IMF, including one or more of the following

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

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