The International Monetary Fund’s executive board has approved a $124 million extension of IMF debt relief to 24 low-income countries through Jan. 10, 2022, the Fund said on Friday. The approval of a fourth tranche of debt relief from the IMF’s Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust brings the total relief[Read More…]
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Morocco Thrash Guinea Bissau To Go Top Of Their World Cup Group
Morocco romped to a 5-0 home win over Guinea Bissau in Rabat on Wednesday to go top of Africa’s World Cup qualifying Group I at the start of a busy week for the north Africans. Achraf Hakimi netted from his wing back position to open the scoring just past the[Read More…]
Senegal Records Fewest Daily COVID-19 Cases Since Outbreak Began
Senegal on Monday logged only two new daily COVID-19 infections, the lowest number since the pandemic reached the country and two months after the rate of new cases hovered at record highs, the health ministry said on Monday. “Two cases were recorded today, the lowest ever recorded,” said health ministry[Read More…]
Defiant Junta Rejects Pressure TO Let Conde Leave Guinea
Guinea’s military junta said on Friday it would not bow to regional pressure and allow President Alpha Conde, detained since his overthrow on Sept. 5, to leave the country. On Friday Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara and Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo paid a one-day visit to Conakry to ask coup[Read More…]
France Donates 184,000 Astrazeneca Doses To Senegal Via COVAX
France has donated 184,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine to Senegal through the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility, the programme’s sponsors said in a statement on Thursday. This is the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines Senegal has received through the global scheme, after an initial 324,000 AstraZeneca doses arrived in March.[Read More…]
Senegal GDP Growth To Shrink To Less Than 3% Due To Coronavirus – President
Senegal’s economic growth will fall to less than 3% in 2020 from a forecast 6.8% because of the coronavirus, President Macky Sall said on Friday. “Our sustained economic growth over several years is being brutally curbed,” Sall said in a speech, adding that the West African country’s tourism industry would[Read More…]
Senegal President On Course For Strong Election Win: Media, Sources
(JollofNews) – Senegalese President Macky Sall is on course for a strong election victory, according to preliminary results from Sunday’s vote provided by local media and a source inside the electoral commission on Tuesday, though opposition candidates have rejected the numbers. Media website Dakaractu.com said that Sall had won over[Read More…]
Senegal President’s Camp Claims Re-Election Victory But Opposition Cries Foul
(JollofNews) – Senegal President Macky Sall’s team claimed he won re-election in the first-round of voting on Sunday, but the opposition said preliminary election results showed a run-off was unavoidable. Sall, whom rights groups have criticized for squeezing out rivals, was favored to win after boosting economic growth in his[Read More…]
Forced To Beg, Senegal’s ‘Talibes’ Face Exploitation And Abuse
(JollofNews) – An eight-year-old boy fled his Koranic school in Saint-Louis, Senegal this month after he said a teacher threatened to beat him for not earning enough money begging on the street. Hours later, alone in the corner of a low-lit bus station, he was raped by a teenager. The[Read More…]
Gambia Names International Advisers To Tackle Debt, Ministry Says
(JollofNews) – Gambia’s finance ministry has appointed advisers to help put its debt on a “sustainable path”, the finance ministry said on Monday. Gambia has been facing a heavy debt burden with the International Monetary Fund warning the country against any new borrowing after its debt reached 130 percent of[Read More…]
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