The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved 220 million euro (233 million U.S. dollars) loans for Tunisia to boost its food security and electricity supply, the Tunisian Ministry of Economy and Planning said in a [Read More]
Australia’s national airline Qantas is expected to recover almost 75 percent of its domestic freight on pre-COVID-19 levels as online shopping deliveries ramp up ahead of Christmas. The airline said on Monday that its freight [Read More]
The United Nations said Friday that two UN peacekeepers, including a woman, were killed and four others injured with one of them in serious condition, in a gun attack in northern Mali. “Unidentified gunmen opened [Read More]
Zimbabwe’s economic growth is forecast to slow to 3.5 percent in 2022 due to renewed domestic and external shocks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Thursday. After registering a robust growth of 8.5 percent in [Read More]
A visiting team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday announced a three-year preliminary agreement with the Ghanaian government to help the west African country revitalize its economy. Stephane Roudet, the team chief, made [Read More]
As part of a record global appeal, UNICEF is appealing for US$2.6 billion in emergency funding to deliver lifesaving assistance to over 52.7 million children in need in the Middle East and North Africa in [Read More]
The top UN envoy for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Friday voiced grave concern over insecurity in the eastern part of the country. While the announcement of the 2023 electoral calendar could [Read More]
Boeing announced on Wednesday that the company and Ethiopian Airlines have partnered to transport more than 12,000 pounds of humanitarian aid supplies to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, using the airline’s three recently delivered 737-8 airplanes. “Ethiopian [Read More]
Nigerian troops have killed scores of gunmen during operations in the north state of Kaduna, an official said Tuesday. In a statement released Tuesday, Samuel Aruwan, the state’s commissioner for internal security and home affairs, [Read More]
UN humanitarians seek almost 50 million U.S. dollars to assist about 315,000 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a UN spokeswoman said on Monday. In North Kivu province, “civilians continue to [Read More]
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