Africa News

• Africa: South Africa Leads the Charge in Nations Transitioning to Renewable Energy Plans
  [allAfrica] South Africa's journey towards decarbonisation via the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) has been described as one of the major achievements of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as COP26. The government announced a major U.S.$8.2 billion deal with the UK, the U.S., Germany, France and the European Union. […]
• Ghana: It Will Take 3 Years to Return to International Capital Market – Finance Minister
  [Ghanaian Times] It will take Ghana about three years to return to the International Capital Market due to the negative impact of downgrades on the economy by international rating agencies, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has said.
• South Africa: SAA Not Scaling Down Operations
  [SAnews.gov.za] State-owned airline, South African Airways (SAA), has moved to assure customers that it will continue to service the routes it currently offers.
• Nigeria: CBN Raising Interest Rates Is Unidirectional, to Affect Businesses Negatively – NACCIMA
  [Leadership] The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA), has disagreed with the raising of interest rate as the move in an unexpected, non-supposing time and one directional.
• Liberia: MFDP Reviews Progress On Economic Dialogue
  [New Dawn] The Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) has ended a one-day economic forum on revision of progress report on economic dialogue held earlier this year in the country.