Nigeria eyes interest rate hikes as economists urge CBN governor to follow Kenya’s monetary policy
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has not had a policy meeting since July, putting it out of kilter with the rest of the continent’s key central banks that hold meetings almost every second month.
UAE, Kenya seal comprehensive trade deal that covers food, mining and technology
UAE state news agency WAM quoted Kenya’s trade minister Rebecca Miano as saying the deal would play an important role in enabling Kenyan exports to reach important markets in Asia and the Middle East
EU watching keenly how Italy’s planned asylum seekers processing centres in Albania will work
The centres could help relieve chronic overcrowding at initial asylum processing centres in Italy, where hundreds of thousands of migrants are held after risky sea voyages across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya, Tunisia, Turkey and other countries.
Maize farmers in US in a quandary on back of a glut that’s driven prices into the ground
Record-large harvests in the United States and Brazil, increased competition for US grain exports, and limited domestic demand led to hefty amounts of corn locked away in storage, pushing US corn prices to their lowest level since November 2020 on Wednesday.
New York AG: Trump’s properties will be auctioned unless he pays $454m civil fraud fine
Trump’s ability to pay his mounting legal debts is increasingly murky after back-to-back courtroom losses. In January, a jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
World Bank tells poor countries to grow ‘much faster’ to repay debt as bond sales hit $47 billion
The World Bank warned in its Global Economic Prospects report, opens new tab, published in January, that the global economy was set for the weakest half-decade performance in 30 years during 2020-2024, even if recession is avoided. Global growth is expected to slow for a third consecutive year to 2.4 per cent, before ticking up to 2.7 per cent in 2025.
South African animal rights activists up in arms after ship with 19,000 cattle causes a big stink in Cape Town
The National Council of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent a veterinary consultant onboard the ship to assess the welfare of the animals, it said. The SPCA’s council said it was strongly opposed to the export of live animals by sea.
Despite spirited push to incentivise local sugarcane growing, farmers in western Kenya are ditching the ‘lazy man’s’ crop for coffee
Despite the government in the past two years trying to assuage sugarcane farmers by paying them for raw material deliveries that been pending for years, continued interest and investment in “lazy man’s crop” – as sugar cane is derided by agricultural experts and economists – has waned significantly in the sugar-belt.
How $170,000 factory converted banana, potato farming from subsistence into commercial enterprise in western Kenya
Now, as Kenya looks to be food secure, harvesting and drying up perishables such as bananas and potatoes (Irish and sweet) is expected to give such foods a longer shelf life, besides diversification.
Eating chiefs: Nigeria’s currency hits rock bottom as central bank discovers $2.4 billion false foreign exchange claims
CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso has said the bank has cleared $2.5 billion of the foreign exchange backlog out of the $7 billion that had been outstanding. The bank, however, found that $2.4 billion of that backlog were false claims that it would not clear, Cardoso said, leaving a balance of about $2.2 billion, which he said will be cleared “soon.”
