Small and vulnerable developing countries will see their trade sectors badly hit by the effects of climate change, a new study says.
While his colleagues had fun in the holidays, Hannington Kasibante would be busy studying a Carpentry and Wood Joinery Course at Kabasanda Technical Institute.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call 'Marie Nerica' who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government.
Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) has announced an investment of US $60 million from the private sector investors Hutchicon Ports Holdings, Wai Chau and TICTS, to facilitate its port operations in easing congestion at its ports.
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Health watchers Association, a Danish charitable organization based in Denmark on Saturday 5th December 2009 has shared sponsorship items and cash valued at D797, 500 to 310 students at a presentation ceremony held at Sifoe Lower Basic School ground.
The Tenant, an international award winning film is set to hit the Nigerian movie market, written and directed by Jude Idada and Lucky Ejim under the auspices of Broken Manacles Entertainment in Canada.
A giant stride was taken yesterday towards the integration of West African capital markets, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by various country exchanges.
MTN Rwanda has acquired the first and largest syndicated loan of US$18 million from six local banks for upgrading its network.
Oblivious to most people, the East African Common Market Protocal was signed by the five participating presidents in Arusha on November 20.
The Advisory Board of the Daily Trust African of the Year award has concluded the screening of candidates, who were shortlisted from a pool of nominees, for the 2009 edition of the pan-African award.
"I was finding it difficult to educate my children after my husband passed on. When I attended the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) sessions on how to save and borrow money using a savings scheme, I benefited a lot.
The 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, an event that marked the beginning of the end of Communism, has been a huge story almost everywhere in the world.
The uninspiring granite exterior of the London Stock Exchange provided the quiet backdrop for a meeting that would almost have gone unnoticed, if it did not have such a strong bearing on Africa's growth prospects.
Recently there was a tale of a palm wine tapper in Pendembu locality in Sierra Leone, who in the course of his daily activities, inadvertently climbed a palm wine tree only for his mobile phone to begin to ring.
