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IMF Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on October 2, 2020 a second six-month tranche of debt service relief for 28 member countries under the Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT). This approval follows the first six-month tranche (April 14 – October

Research from the University of South Carolina suggests that THC - the chemical in cannabis aka marijuana that creates a mind-altering effect - could be used to treat complications in COVID-19 patients Cannabis which is also known as marijuana could be used to help treat potentially deadly complications with COVID-19,

George Weah became Liberian president in January 2018 Liberia’s President George Weah has revealed in a church sermon that he receives a barrage of insults via text message from people claiming to be his supporters who are angry that he is not helping them. The 54-year-old ex-footballer is approaching the

The dam has strained Ethiopia's relations with Egypt and to some extent Sudan Ethiopia has banned flights in its airspace over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) for security reasons, according to the privately-owned Reporter website. "The director-general of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation, Col Wesenyeleh Hunegnaw, told Reporter that following

The ruling means President Yoweri Museveni is free to stand in the next election The East African Court of Justice has dismissed a case which challenged the Constitutional Amendment Bill, removing the age limit to contesting the presidency in Uganda. This means President Yoweri Museveni is allowed to stand for

Uganda is the 3rd country with best coffee globally, if 1,229 professional coffee tasters from around the world are to be believed. According to beanpoet, the best coffee country in the world is Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s coffees, as a group, fell higher on the scale than those of any other country.

Operations of South African Airways (SAA), the country's national carrier, have been suspended with immediate effect. "This means SAA will complete repatriation flights that have already been scheduled but will not schedule any further flights," Business Day news site reports. Administrators said they were putting the struggling state-owned carrier under

The illegal outflow of money is related to the export of high-value goods such as gold Africa lost $836bn (£650bn) in illegal movement of money out of the continent in the 15 years to 2015, a new report by the UN agency for trade and development (UNCTAD) estimates. Compared with

A team of 10 Chinese doctors have arrived in Zimbabwe to join the country's fight against the coronavirus pandemic. They will be stationed at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals for the next 12 months, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. The head of the team, Dr Luo Weiqiang, is quoted as saying

US President Donald Trump (pictured) paid just $750 in U.S. income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, reported losing millions of dollars from his golf courses and has hundreds of millions in debt that will come due in the next few years, according to a report in the New York