According to the World Bank, the recent rainy seasons in Africa have affected over two million people, due to floods, and displaced over 500 000 others. ...
Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have agreed to resume negotiations, in which the United States and the World Bank would participate as observers on the filling of...
Kenya’s economic activity softened in 2019 to 5.8 percent from 6.3 percent in 2018, according to the latest World Bank Kenya economic update released on Thursday,...
Rwanda remains the second easiest place to do business in Africa and is now thirty-eighth globally, according to the 2020 World Bank Doing Business report released...
The World Bank’s 2020 Doing Business Index (DBI) has ranked Nigeria 131 out of 190 countries, up 15 places from its position last year. The report,...
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....