Impoverished Zimbabweans turn to scrap metal trade as inflation bites
NYASHA CHINGONO SHEPHERD Chowe pushes a cart filled with tins, iron rods and other metallic objects down a dusty pathway
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Explainer: Why Ghana has returned to the IMF
COOPER INVEEN and RACHEL SAVAGE Hundreds took to the streets of Ghana’s capital Accra last week to protest over its
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Zimbabwe to introduce gold coins as local currency tumbles
ZIMBABWE’S central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to tame runaway
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South Africa’s economy has taken some heavy body blows: can it recover?
ECONOMISTS are growing increasingly concerned about South Africa’s economy. This is because the country’s three major macroeconomic problems – lacklustre
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Inflation should be viewed as public enemy number 1: here’s why
INFLATION is a process of sustained increases in the general price level over a period of time, typically 12 months.
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Nigeria’s women shopkeepers forced to scale back as prices soar
PELUMI SALAKO THE freezers at Mama Tee’s frozen food shop used to be brimming with chicken, turkey cuts and the
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Sudan’s basic income scheme aims to ease economic pain
NAFISA ELTAHIR and ELTAYEB SIDDING FOR Intisar Altayib, who ekes out a living drawing henna tattoos in Khartoum, soaring prices
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‘Stagflation’ stalks Nigeria as food prices, unemployment soar
CHIJIOKE OHUOCHA NIGERIAN inflation hit a four-year peak in February as food prices jumped more than 20%, heaping financial pressure
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Zimbabwe expects inflation of 134% this year -finmin
ZIMBABWE expects its average annual inflation to slow to 134% in 2020, according to a finance ministry document, more than
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