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Nigeria: Buhari’s Toothache and Our Heartache On Medical Tourism

Unfortunately, the cost to the public treasury of Buhari’s health tourism is not known. It seems like an epilogue to a badly choreographed drama that President Muhammadu Buhari is undergoing toothache therapy in the UK, after spending more than 225 days on similar vacations, just three weeks to the end of his eight-year Presidency on […]

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Kenya’s First Budget Under Ruto – Three Experts Review Its Key Points

President William Ruto’s first budget comes to the national assembly on 15 June against the backdrop of massive public debt and public disquiet over high inflation. The KSh3.663 trillion (US$26.35 billion) plan sets out priority areas of an administration that campaigned on the platform of empowering the informal sector. Many of the budgetary measures meant […]

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Uganda: World Bank – Uganda Needs Reforms in the Tourism Sector As the Economy Grows 5.7 Percent in Fy 22/23

Kampala, Uganda — Uganda’s economic activity is accelerating despite commodity-price inflation, global monetary tightening, international supply-chain bottlenecks, and a local Ebola outbreak, according to the World Bank’s 21st Edition of the Uganda Economic Update released on June.29. The global bank says real GDP growth is estimated to reach 5.7 per cent in FY22/23, albeit still […]

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South Africa: 2,000 Southern White Rhino to be Released into the Wild Over Next 10 Years

African Parks has purchased the world’s largest captive rhino breeding operation in a bid to rescue and rewild the rhino to safe and well-managed protected areas across Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa, 04 September 2023 African Parks, a conservation NGO that manages 22 protected areas in partnership with 12 governments across Africa, announced that it will […]