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OMETE: Let’s innovate around water access for sustainability

Operational and financial statements of most water resource firms reveal why achieving profitability is hard.

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How to rid E.Africa of locusts? Serve them in a kebab

Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of locusts threatens to devour East Africa’s crops, scientists in a Nairobi lab are experimenting with novel ways to kill

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Source: The East African

ACC commences monitoring of social safety net cash transfers across Sierra Leone

According to the ACC, the role of the Task Force is “to ensure that the targeted beneficiaries for the World Bank supported National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) direct cash transfer efforts, are captured in a transparent and accountable

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

Africa: United States and the African Development Bank

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Source: allAfrica.com

Financial market snapshot, June 2020: Updates from South Africa and abroad

(Partner Content) Global equity markets continued their resurgence in June as investors shrugged off concerns over a potential second wave of coronavirus infections and forecasts of a contraction in global growth.

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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African

Shelter Afrique now eyes bond market as loss falls

Pan-African housing financier Shelter Afrique plans to raise funds from the bonds market in about two years to fund new real estate projects, the firm said Monday.

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Source: Business Daily

Kenya: COVID-19 - in Kenya, Confusion and Corruption While Politicians Flout Lockdowns

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, who has been giving routine updates on the pandemic, said the suspected case was a Kenyan who had travelled to Nairobi from the United States through

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Source: allAfrica.com

Equity Group eyes Sh50bn long-term debt in three years

Group CEO James Mwangi told investors in a recent virtual annual general meeting that the board wants to reinforce the lender’s liquidity and capital positions.

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Source: Business Daily

Africa: How Africa Can Take This Moment to End a 500-Years-Old Economic Model

[African Arguments] Governments can take the opportunity of COVID-19 to change Africa's place in global economic structures, but it will take pan-African coordination.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya: Top Officials 'Stole HIV Projects Cash'

From manipulating contracts and tenders, demanding bribes, circumventing procurement regulations, to demanding kickbacks upfront to process their funds, senior government officials, parliamentarians and crooked NGOs misappropriated money in four key World Bank funded projects during President

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Source: allAfrica.com

Nigeria: Buhari Nominates Okonjo-Iweala As Nigeria's Candidate for World Trade Organisation's DG Election

Nigeria has nominated a former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as its candidate for the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) election coming up next

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Source: allAfrica.com

Kenya: Court Fines Former KRA Manager Sh2 Million for Soliciting Sh15 Million Bribe

Nairobi — A former Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) senior manager, who six years ago, received a Sh 15 million bribe has been fined Sh2 million by an Anti-Corruption Magistrate's Court in

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Source: allAfrica.com

Jubilee puts rebel MPs on notice

Ten MPs allied to Deputy President William Ruto have accused the party leadership of using State agencies to harass and intimidate

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

1.5m Kenyans beat corona lockdowns to file tax returns

1.5m Kenyans beat corona lockdowns to file tax returns

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Zimbabwe rocked by worst economic crisis in over a decade

Prices of basic goods gallop every week as the value of the Zimbabwean dollar continues to tumble, pushing official annual inflation to 785.6 per cent in

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Source: The East African

Nigeria's Covid-19 outbreak could impoverish 5 million people, World Bank says

Nigeria's coronavirus outbreak may push 5 million people into poverty as it triggers the worst recession in the African powerhouse since the 1980s, the World Bank said on

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Labour minister says PATH payment system being reviewed

NEWLY appointed Minister of Labour and Social Security Mike Henry confirmed yesterday that the ministry is reviewing the control system for applicants seeking PATH grants under the COVID-19 Allocation of Resources for Employees

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AfDB donates $4m to South Sudan for Covid-19 fight

The African Development Bank has approved a $4.16 million towards the fight of Covid-19 in South

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Source: The East African

East Africa: The Congressional Black Caucus Statement on the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Press Release - In recent months negotiations have stalled and there has been an escalation of tensions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that impacts, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan. The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) encourages the continued cooperation and peaceful negotiations of all

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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

Fresh outbreak of Ebola virus in DRC kills 11 people from 17 recorded cases

Since the discovery of the Ebola virus disease in 1976 in South Sudan (then Sudan) and Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire), there have been recurrent

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

ISRAEL/SENEGAL : Powercom on a charm offensive at Senelec - 01/04/2020 - West Africa Newsletter

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EDITORIAL: Supplying water to slum dwellers welcome move

EDITORIAL: Supplying water to slum dwellers welcome move

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Kenya's Open Door Policy Offers Economic Opportunities for Refugees and Their Hosts

Programs in training and skills development were availed to refugees without a clear integration into the local labour market realities or the same opportunity availed to host

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Source: allAfrica.com

Forest fires, landslides dislocate NWC pipelines in St Andrew

The National Water Commission (NWC) is reporting that forest fires and landslides occurring in some areas of east rural St Andrew have caused the dislocation of several sections of pipelines on its Sugar Loaf Gravity System

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Liberia: 'A Diabolical Lie' - Liberian Govt. Dismisses Opposition Claim COVID-19 Money Misdirected

Monrovia — The Government of Liberia has debunked speculations on social media that it intends to use nearly US$10 million of the US$30 million apportioned for the COVID-19 food distribution on "unexplained administrative

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa Development Bank Blacklists Chinese Company Building Kenyan Power Project – Voice and Viewpoint

“An investigation conducted by the Bank’s Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption established that Sinotec Company Limited misrepresented its experience, the value and dates of its reference contracts and its relationship with other bidders while participating in three Bank-financed tenders under

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Source: Voice and Viewpoint – Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper

Burundi's New President Ndayishimiye Faces Tough Task of Reconciliation

Evariste Ndayishimiye was sworn in Thursday as Burundi's new president following the sudden death of his predecessor Pierre

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Source: allAfrica.com

MWANYASI: The market is singing a sad song, put on dancing shoes

Anyone who talks optimistically about the stock market these days has to put up with an army of doom-and gloom-sayers.

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Source: Business Daily

Telcos, health ministries partner on a Covid-19 mobile platform

The initiative dubbed Africa Communications Information Platform (ACIP) is based on a partnership between ECA, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), telcos and ministries of

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Source: The East African

Africa: Support Pours in for AfDB's Adesina

There has been overwhelming endorsement of African Development Bank President, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, as various individuals and organisations commend his stewardship of the bank, and reiterate their support for his re-election, writes Demola Ojo

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