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What Is Namibia Doing With Its Newly Discovered Oil Reservoir?
Months after discovering large amounts of light oil and associated gas off the coast of Namibia, the southern African country has joined Africa’s league of oil-producing nations to launch a sovereign wealth fund. At the launch of the state-owned investment fund, President Hage Geingob said an initial deposit of 262 million Namibian dollars ($16.3m) would…
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Here Is Why The United Nations Is Worried For People In Africa’s Sahel Region
The United Nations has warned that about 18 million people living in Africa’s Sahel region would face severe hunger in the next three months, citing the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the coronavirus pandemic, climate-induced shocks and rising costs. The dire situation could force more people to migrate out of the affected areas, according…
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Rwanda To Receive First Batch Of Asylum-Seekers From The UK
Rwanda would receive about 50 asylum seekers from the UK at the end of May, a month after both countries signed a controversial immigration deal that re-routes illegal migrants from the UK to the East African country for processing. According to Rwanda’s deputy government spokesman Alain Mukurarinda, the first batch of 50 migrants would be…
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Eleven Soldiers Dead In Attack On Army Base In Burkina Faso
Authorities have reported an attack on a military base in eastern Burkina Faso that claimed the lives of seven soldiers, leaving over 12 others injured. According to a statement by the army, a counter-attack successfully neutralized 15 attackers trying to flee after the attack in Madjoari in Kompienga province on Thursday, while the injured soldiers…
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Police Officers In DRC Seize 1500 Kilograms Of Elephant Tusk
Authorities have discovered and seized about 1500 kilograms of elephant ivory from smugglers in the southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tagged one of the largest hauls in Africa in years, legal and environmental officials said, Police officers, discovered the smuggled tusks aboard trucks in the city of Lubumbashi on Saturday, measuring up…
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“We depend on the forest”: Logging Worsens Climate Impacts For Indigenous People In Nigeria
Despite providing habitation and means of survival for indigenous people in host communities, deforestation in Southern Nigeria is gradually pushing several forest kinds of wood indigenes into extinction. Micheal Otu (47) farms cassava and plantain in the indigenous community of Okonde Boki Local Government, in Nigeria’s southeastern Cross River state. Over 20 years, he has…
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#100MillionPresidentialTicket: How Would It Guarantee Equitable Economic Recovery
ADH Twitter Space is a monthly forum hosted by Orodata Science whose mission is to continue to democratize data, and knowledge towards solutions that impact the lives of millions. The Africa Data Hub (ADH) seeks to support and promote quality access to information, data-driven journalism to facilitate evidence-based decision-making about the pandemic across the continent. The…
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How Comoros Is Rebuilding Its Tourism Sector Post-Covid-19
Comoros is an archipelago of four islands located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa. The economy of Comoros was hit hard by the adverse effects of the COVID–19 in 2020 after being hit hard in 2019 by Cyclone Kenneth. Covid-19 restrictions and curfews enforced in the…
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In Four Years, Workers In Formal Sector Earn N159tn
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, employees in Nigeria’s formal sector earned N159.01 trillion from 2018 to 2021. This was contained in its ‘Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report’. The NBS said the total compensation of employees in the nation, based on the GDP and expenditure at current purchasers’ value, was N34.36tn…
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Bank Loans To Govt Rise To N16.32tn
Figures obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria have shown that the total net credit by the Nigerian banking sector to the government rose by N2.2 trillion in the first quarter. The CBN’s data on ‘Money and credit statistics’ have shown the net credit to the government rose from N14.12tn as of the end of…