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Analysts have rated President Lazarus Chakwera’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) highly, saying it inspires confidence and hope. Rarely do analysts speak the same language when asked to react to the Sona but random interviews at Parliament yesterday showed that Chakwera lived up to the expectations of many. We spoke to National Planning Commission

Africa Business Communities

Baird, T. D., J. T. McCabe, E. Woodhouse, I. Rumas, S. Sankeni, and G. O. Saitoti. 2021. Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa. Ecology and Society 26(2):41. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12528-260241

H.E. President Museveni Meets Danish Envoy, Welcomes $95 Million Support for Climate Change and Refugees

TA HEUY, Cambodia — Cambodian farmers Nuoy and Nangkek were both in their late 20s when they took out their first microloan in 2018 for around $600 to help grow their crops. Today, the couple owe more than $10,000 to two financial institutions charging 18% annual interest. Like many borrowers in a country with one […]

Temitope O. Sogbanmu’s profile on The Conversation

The move came a week after leader Kim Jong Un admitted his country’s dire economic status.

The OPEC Fund for International Development has had an unprecedented year as the institution stepped up its global development assistance efforts, committing…

The European Union (EU) has attracted attention due to its potential impact on the socioeconomic progress of non-EU nations. According to Latygina et al.’s study titled “International communication and leadership as a part of Ukrainian...

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