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Our defiance: A dangerous precedent or Africa’s first step to economic freedom?
Business and Financial Times
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August 26, 2025
By Dr. Bernard TETTEH-DUMANYA In early 2025, something extraordinary happened in Accra. Against the backdrop of mounting debt, rising prices, and IMF programme fatigue, Ghana’s central bank decided to act boldly without permission. It injected...
Pan-African visa-free campaign targets $3.3trn market, deeper integration
Business Day
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August 26, 2025
A continent-wide campaign advocating for visa-free travel across Africa is gathering momentum, with its champions arguing that eliminating travel restrictions could unlock access to Africa’s $3.3 trillion economy and create jobs for its 1.4...
Nigeria targets $300m shea market as Tinubu orders 6-month export ban
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 26, 2025
President Bola Tinubu has ordered a six-month suspension of raw shea nut exports to strengthen local processing and reposition Nigeria in the global shea industry. Vice President Kashim Shettima, who conveyed the directive during a...
Stalled Pwalugu dam project terminated, gov’t to re-award contract
The Herald Ghana
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August 30, 2025
The Mahama administration has announced plans to cancel the stalled Pwalugu multipurpose dam contract and re-award it in a fresh procurement process, after years of delays and mounting pressure over flooding in northern Ghana. Food and Agriculture...
Cross-border Crimes: Experts Urge Stronger Controls, Community Trust-building in Northern Nigeria
This Day
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August 30, 2025
Linus Aleke in Abuja Security experts and relevant stakeholders in the security ecosystem have called for urgent measures to strengthen border controls, enhance government commitment, and deepen collaboration among civil society organisations...
Will ECOWAS meet its 2027 currency launch goal?
Deutsche Welle
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August 25, 2025
The plan for West Africa's new ECO currency was already adopted back in June 2019 to facilitate trade and economic integration across the region and serve as a unifying medium of exchange. However, plans to introduce the ECO in the very next year...
State-Owned enterprises to transact more with state banks – Deputy Finance Minister
Ghana Business News
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August 25, 2025
Thomas Nyarko-Ampem, Deputy Minister of Finance Mr. Thomas Nyarko-Ampem, the Deputy Minister of Finance, has reaffirmed government’s commitment to strengthening state-owned financial institutions, announcing that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and...
African Development Bank and JICA Launch $5.5 Billion EPSA6 Initiative to Drive Private Sector Growth and Resilience in Africa
Alexa.ng
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YOKOHAMA, Japan – August 25, 2025 – The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the sixth phase of the Enhanced Private Sector...
Europe on Alert: Sahel Terror Networks Threaten the Continent
EUToday
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August 30, 2025
7The Sahel has long been a region of fragile states, ethnic tensions, and recurring humanitarian crises. Today, it stands as one of the most pressing security concerns for Europe. An article in DEFENCE MATTERS.EU this morning warns that from Mali...
Fort Bend Commissioner Dexter L. McCoy Presented a Proclamation to Ambassador of Burkina Faso Kassoum Coulibaly to Celebrate the Swearing-In of the Newly Appointed Honorary Consul in Houston
Fort Bend Herald - Texas
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Fort Bend County Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter L. McCoy presented an official county proclamation on Friday to His Excellency Kassoum Coulibaly, Ambassador of Burkina Faso to the United States, in recognition of his honorary swearing-in ceremony....
West Africa Approves Food Standards to Combat Malnutrition
News Ghana
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August 30, 2025
West African economic leaders have endorsed new regional quality standards for fortified foods, aiming to tackle widespread malnutrition while boosting trade across the 12-member bloc. The Economic Community of West African States approved...
Business News | India Exim Bank Signs $40 Mn Credit Line Agreement with ECOWAS Bank to Boost Trade with Africa
Latestly
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August 21, 2025
New Delhi [India], August 21 (ANI): The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim Bank) and ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) have signed a commercial credit line agreement of USD 40 million. The agreement will create new...
Africa Intelligence Brief Comprehensive News Roundup For August 29, 2025
MENAFN
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August 30, 2025
(MENAFN- The Rio Times) On August 29, 2025, Egypt widened an online crackdown with arrests of teen TikTok creators, underscoring a tightening grip on speech. Kenya reported a rise in inflation, highlighting price pressures across East Africa....
How Putin’s shadowy ‘private army’ is waging a second ‘ghost war’ thousands of miles from Ukraine
The U.S. Sun
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August 30, 2025
THOUSANDS of miles from Ukraine's bloody frontline, Vladimir Putin is quietly waging a brutal second war in the desert. In a vast lawless region plagued by coups, terrorism and insurgencies, the Russian tyrant is wrapping his war-hungry tentacles...
New ECOWAS Chairman initiates moves to bring Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger back to the bloc
Business Insider Africa
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August 16, 2025
In his address during a courtesy visit from Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, at Sierra Leone’s State House, President Bio stressed the importance of building robust partnerships with the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)...
China arms Burkina Faso as Sahel turns away from Western security promises
South China Morning Post
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August 16, 2025
China is equipping Burkina Faso’s military and positioning itself for greater influence in the Sahel, filling a vacuum left by the collapse of security partnerships with Western nations, especially the United States and France. The move is part of...
Nigeria halts raw shea nut exports to boost local production
United News of Bangladesh
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Nigeria has imposed a temporary ban on the export of raw shea nuts, a key ingredient in cosmetic products, as part of a strategy to strengthen its domestic processing industry and increase its share of the global skincare market. Vice President...
ECOWAS urged to sustain plans for West Africa’s single currency
Punch
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August 22, 2025
The Association of Small Business Owners of Nigeria has called on the Economic Community of West African States to sustain its commitment toward the actualisation of a single currency for the sub-region. According to ASBON, the initiative holds...
Burkina Faso: Traoré, a conservative, anti-democratic despot
Amandla
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August 12, 2025
Amandla! sent a series of questions to Rahmane Idrissa. Here are the questions and his answers. Amandla!: Ibrahim Traoré came to power in a coup in 2022. What was the situation in the country that led to the coup? Rahmane Idrissa: Traoré came to...
Burkina Faso acquires long-range MLRS capability with Chinese SR5 for the first time
Defense News Security News Army Recognition
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According to information published by Hammer of War on X on 7 August 2025, Burkina Faso has received a major shipment of Chinese-manufactured military equipment, including VN22B fire support vehicles, PLL-05 120 mm self-propelled gun-mortars, and...