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Now Is the Time to Help Countries Faced with Liquidity Challenges

(Credit: Kim Haughton/IMF Photo) August 1, 2024/IMFBlog By Ceyla Pazarbasioglu and Pablo Saavedra Many countries are being squeezed by increasing interest payments and high debt redemptions. The economic scarring of the pandemic, conflicts around the world, and the abrupt rise in global interest rates have hit low-income countries the hardest. […]

AfDB Launches 54 Country Focus Reports

The reports give deeper country-by-country specific dynamics and insights July 30, 2024/AfDB The African Development Bank Group has launched Country Focus Reports designed to deepen policy dialogue on the macroeconomic performance and outlook of individual countries and to act as an indispensable tool for policy makers, government and development partners. […]

Oil Producing Communities Threaten to Shut Down All Pipeline Facilities over Unfair Treatment of Dangote /Modular Refineries

…Warn IOCs against economic sabotage …Urge FG to end fuel, diesel importation July 28, 2024/Dangote Group The Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSTCOM), over the weekend, threatened to renew agitation for greater autonomy and control of their natural resources, if the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and […]