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Others are reporting that the full restoration is in the capital Addis Ababa, which was one of the worst hit places in the violence that according to government precipitated the outage as a national security measure.

According to the recently published African Economic Outlook 2020 report by the African Development Bank (AfDB), Tanzania will see a drop in its GDP growth to 5.2% in 2020 and 6.3% in 2021, from the pre-COVID–19 estimates of 6.4% and 6.6%.

Morocco's House of Councillors has approved the amended 2020 finance bill, fixing the state budget for the year 2020, in a majority vote.

Zambia’s mines minister, Richard Musukwa, said the government had made it clear from the beginning that it wants Mopani to continue and said he was happy Mopani had “responded favourably” to his call not to place the mine under care and maintenance.

Activity at Morocco’s national ports reached 88 million tons in 2019, representing an increase of 3.2% compared to a year earlier.

However, some of the negative impacts COVID-19 on the free trade agreement, according to PwC, include the introduction of border closure and travel bans by key African economies, which have undermined the process of strengthening economic integration and economic development in A...

Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi held a telephone conversation today to discuss about ways of further strengthening the relationship between Ethiopia and China.

The WHO recommends that countries look at whether the need to fight widespread virus transmission outweighs the economic benefits of opening borders. “It is also crucial to determine whether the health system can cope with a spike in imported cases,” it says.

The World Bank (WB) upgraded Tanzania's country classification by income level from low income to lower-middle income in 2020-21.