Davos 2023: South Africa plans to end load-shedding in 12-18 months
SOUTH Africa has a plan to improve energy provision that will end the need for any power cuts within the
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Nigeria to spend $7.5 bln on petrol subsidy to mid-2023
CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA will keep its costly but popular petrol subsidy until mid-2023 and has set aside 3.36 trillion nairas
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S.Africa finmin: Ramaphosa re-election suggests policy continuity
THE re-election of President Cyril Ramaphosa as leader of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) party suggests continuity in
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Ghana MPs suspend demand to oust finance minister until after IMF deal
A coalition of Ghana’s ruling party members of parliament have called off demands that finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta be removed
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New PM Rishi Sunak pledges to lead Britain out of economic crisis
BY KATE HOLTON, ELIZABETH PIPER and ALISTAIR SMOUT RISHI Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister in two months and pledged
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Ghana ruling party MPs coalition asks president to sack finance minister
CHRISTIAN AKORLIE and COOPER INVEEN A majority of Ghana’s ruling party parliamentarians asked the president to sack finance minister Ken
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UK’s Truss sacrifices finance minister, scraps tax plan in fight to survive
ELIZABETH PIPER, KATE HOLTON and ALISTAIR SMOUT BRITISH Prime Minister Liz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng and scrapped
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Zimbabwe economy will grow less than previous 4.6% forecast this year, finance minister says
ZIMBABWE’S economy will grow this year by less than the 4.6% previously forecast because of factors including high inflation and
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South Sudan’s Kiir sacks finance minister, central bank governor
SOUTH Sudanese President Salva Kiir has removed the finance minister and central bank governor from their posts, a decree read
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High oil, wheat prices to burden Egypt with over $10 billion, finance minister says
Oil prices staying at $122 per barrel will cost the Egyptian budget $7.2 billion, Finance Minister Mohamed Maiit told CNBC
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