South Africa’s low growth projection for 2019 and 2020 has led the World Bank to cut the country’s growth outlook for the period, as announced on...
Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa remained slow through 2019, disclosed the twentieth edition of Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s twice-yearly economic update for the region, released on...
Sweden has provided 3.8 million dollars to the World Bank as contribution to the government of Liberia’s project which benefits rural youth, its ambassador to the...
The World Bank’s lending arm, the International Development Association (IDA), has approved grants and loans totalling 57 million dollars for a project to interconnect the Mozambican...
Under-Secretary-General (USG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock has called for sustained funding to protect Somalia’s recent gains made in beating back hunger....
The World Bank has announced a 300-million-dollar investment package for Ghana’s cocoa industry for the next five years. The package is expected to shore up crop...
About 60 000 women and youths from six states in Nigeria are to benefit from a 200-million-dollar World Bank-assisted Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support...
From being one of the poorest nations to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, Botswana seems to have achieved that rare feat at...
One in five Ivorians depend on the cocoa industry for their livelihood, according to the World Bank’s new Director of Operations in Cote d’Ivoire, Coralie Gevers....
On Thursday, 18 July 2019, the new World Bank Country Director for Liberia, Pierre Frank Laporte, arrived in Liberia for a three-day official visit. While in...