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South Africa : Eskom extends stage 2 load shedding – here is the new schedule
  • 10 October 2021
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Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will be extended until 05h00 on Thursday (14 October) to replenish emergency generation reserves.The power cuts are also necessary to address other addit...

South Africa : World Bank on South Africa’s plans to support the unemployed – including a R350 job-seekers grant
  • 09 October 2021
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The World Bank said South Africa, which ranks among the world’s top 10 spenders on social assistance, could consider a range of reforms to its R156 billion ($15 billion) annual welfare program to make...

South Africa : A low-cost airline has just launched a flight subscription service in South Africa
  • 09 October 2021
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Low-cost domestic airline Flysafair has launched a new monthly subscription service – ‘the FlyMore Club’.Aimed at business travellers, people in long-distance relationships, commuters, people with hol...

South Africa will need to consider mandatory vaccinations and incentives in the coming months: business group
  • 09 October 2021
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South Africa’s first ‘Vooma Vaccination’ weekend set an ambitious target of vaccinating 500,000 people, and while it only achieved around 350,000 jabs, it represented a significant increase for weeken...

South Africa’s troubled sugar industry in talks with government over potential biofuel subsidy
  • 09 October 2021
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South Africa’s sugar industry is in talks with the government over a potential subsidy that could see it convert more than a third of its annual output into biofuel, according to a group representing...

Nigeria : FirstBank Pledges Support For Fintech Startups
  • 09 October 2021
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First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. has pledged support for startups and innovators in the fintech ecosystem by providing relevant data and infrastructure that would enable them to succeed.FirstBank’s Managing...

Nigeria : Young Wheat Farmers Explain Dilemma As Production Declines
  • 09 October 2021
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For many years wheat production has been stagnant and the challenges before its farmers are many.Although President Muhammadu Buhari launched the rice and wheat Anchor Borrower Programme (ABP) in Nove...

Nigeria : 90% Tech That Powers Nigeria’s Economy Imported — NOTAP
  • 09 October 2021
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The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) has lamented that more than 90 of the technology that Nigeria’s economy relies on is imported.The Director-General of NOTAP, Dr. Da...

Nigeria : Petroleum Tanker Drivers Urged To Dialogue With FG
  • 09 October 2021
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Energy experts and stakeholders have urged the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) to dialogue with the federal government over its industrial action planned for tomorrow.PTD, a branch of the Nigerian Unio...

Nigeria : Wema Bank Holds Customers’ Forum In Abuja
  • 09 October 2021
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Wema Bank of Nigeria, on Thursday, held a forum with customers from Abuja and across the North on the activities of the bank and plans for the next few years.The bank said the forum became necessary t...

Egypte : EGX ends Tuesday in semi-collective regression amid foreign selling
  • 09 October 2021
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CAIRO – 5 October 2021: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended Tuesday’s session in a semi-collective regression, adding around LE 70.36 million to market capitalization, amid foreign selling. The ben...

Egypte : What companies implementing electrical linkage project between Egypt, Saudi Arabia?
  • 09 October 2021
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CAIRO – 5 October 2021: Egypt and Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday signing the contracts of the electrical interconnection project between both countries, including contracts with three consortiums of i...

Egypt : How will Lebanon pay for Egyptian natural gas?
  • 09 October 2021
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 CAIRO - 7 October 2021: Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum announced Tuesday that his country will export natural gas to Lebanon in the coming weeks. This statement came after his talks, held fo...

Egypt signs 1st green, Islamic credit facility contract worth $2B
  • 09 October 2021
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CAIRO – 7 October 2021: Egypt, represented by the Ministry of Finance, signed Thursday the first green and Islamic credit facility contract, worth $2 billion, for a period of 3 years. The contrac...

Egypte : 15.4% rise in Egypt's non-petroleum exports in first quarter of 2021
  • 09 October 2021
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CAIRO - 7 October 2021: The cabinet's information center said non-petroleum exports rose by 15.4 percent to stand at $7.5 billion in the first quarter of 2021 against $6.5 billion in the first quarter...

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