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Lawyering in Crisis: African countries among innovation leaders in fight against COVID-19
African innovators have shown creativity and ingenuity in finding solutions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but face legal barriers to safeguarding their intellectual ...
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African Development Bank delivers on a decade of transformative commitments to reduce poverty
For the past five decades, the African Development Bank Group has been at the forefront of driving Africa’s economic transformation, leveraging its diverse ...
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Efforts to find local remedy for COVID-19 underway, says Nigeria’s health minister
Apart from the global efforts to find a cure or vaccine for COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world since November 2019, Nigeria is making ...
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Three months of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa
Three months ago sub-Saharan Africa confirmed its first COVID-19 case in Nigeria. Although infections have risen and continue to grow, early and swift ...
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Accusations against African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina and the U.S. Case Against him
According to several informed sources in and outside of Africa’s premier development institution, this was and always has been an insidious attempt by ...
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AfDB president Adesina tackles corruption accusations, dismisses rumour of stepping down
The embattled president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina has issued a press statement this week dismissing allegations of corruption and ...
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Akinwumi Adesina, AfDB President to the US: “Allegations against me remain unsubstantiated”
The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, has dismissed the 16 allegations against him as unsubstantiated in a detailed response ...
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Senegal: A West African leader on the rise
By Thomas Hedley Although they are located 1,800Km from each other, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal vie for the place of economic leader in ...
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Just hoping coronavirus will bypass Africa would be a deadly mistake, says UN
Tens of millions of people in Africa could become destitute as a result of COVID-19 and its catastrophic impact on fragile economies and ...
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Made in Nigeria goods: Senior Govt officials flout Mr. President’s directives
There are concerns that more Nigeria manufacturers will close shop before the end of October this year not because of COVID-19, but rather ...
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The African Utopia at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel
By Cesar A. Mba ABOGO*, Minister of Finance, Economy and Planning of Equatorial Guinea In 1990, when Cameroon’s football team did the unthinkable ...
