(Credit: Peeterv/iStock by Getty Images) January 25, 2024/IMFBlog By Hany Abdel Latif and Mahmoud El Gamal Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from persistent security challenges, and Sahel countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Mauritania, and Mali are particularly afflicted by protracted conflicts and humanitarian crises. While various factors can fuel conflict, our research shows […]

January 24, 2024/CSL Research Based on news reports, the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Mr. Abubakar Kyari, has stated that achieving food security through agricultural development is at the core of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s eight-point agenda, because all the programmes on the agenda are connected to agriculture. He […]

January 24, 2024/FBNQuest Research The CBN’s recently published quarterly economic report shows that the provisional value of Nigeria’s total merchandise trade decreased by -5% q/q to USD24.2bn in Q3 ’23. Underscoring the lower m/m trade value was a reduction of -17% q/q in the value of merchandise imports to USD10.5bn. […]