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Liberian Business Climate Poised for Growth as Trade Fair Initiative on the way
Front Page Africa
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July 8, 2025
The Zoom Network Inc, prominent Liberian-owned enterprise is in discussion with the Government of Liberia to launch a large scale trade fair aimed at energizing the country’s business landscape. This move comes as part of a broader economic...
Baltasar Egonga: Controversial Equatorial Guinea govt official sentenced to 18 years in prison for embezzlement
The Standard
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Baltasar Egonga Ebang [Courtesy] Baltasar Engonga Ebang, the former Director General of Equatorial Guinea’s National Agency for Financial Investigation, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for embezzling over Sh 230 million (1 billion CFA...
Catholic Church’s Role in Education, Healthcare Discussed at Pope Leo XIV’s Audience with Equatorial Guinean President
ACI Africa
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July 2, 2025
Vatican, 02 July, 2025 / 4:46 pm (ACI Africa). The Catholic Church’s role in promoting formal education and healthcare in Equatorial Guinea was one of the topics discussed during the June 28 meeting between Pope Leo XIV and the President of the...
World Bank Classifies Nigeria as Lower-Middle Income Economy, Below Libya and Gabon
TechEconomy
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July 7, 2025
Advertisements The World Bank has reaffirmed Nigeria’s status as a Lower-Middle Income Economy (LMIE) in its 2025/2026 country income classification, placing it below conflict-affected Libya and resource-rich Gabon. While Nigeria remains in the...
World Bank Retains Nigeria in Lower-Middle Income Bracket, Below War-Torn Libya and Gabon
Arise News
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July 7, 2025
For the umpteenth time, the World Bank has classified Nigeria among Lower-Middle Income Economies (LMIEs) in its 2025/2026 country income classification, below war-torn Libya as well as Gabon. While Nigeria retained its position in the LMIEs, some...
World Bank: Nigeria Stuck in Lower Middle Income Economy Below Libya, Gabon
This Day
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July 7, 2025
*Stresses country not ranked among heavily indebted poor countries Dike Onwuamaeze For the umpteenth time, the World Bank has classified Nigeria among Lower-Middle Income Economies (LMIEs) in its 2025/2026 country income classification, below...
BRICS summit in Brazil to champion multilateralism amid trade tensions
Daily News Egypt
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July 6, 2025
Leaders of the growing BRICS group of nations are gathering in Brazil for a summit overshadowed by United States President Donald Trump’s new tariff policies, with the bloc aiming to present itself as a defender of multilateralism. The leaders,...
Equatorial Guinea releases arbitrarily detained South Africa engineers
JURIST
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June 23, 2025
Engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham returned home to South Africa on Sunday after serving more than two years in prison in Equatorial Guinea on seemingly arbitrary drug trafficking charges, according to a 2024 conclusion of the UN Working...
Cuba advocates for global financial justice at international summit
Cuban News Agency
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July 3, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, July 2 (ACN) Speaking at the IV International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Seville, Spain under the theme “Achieving a sovereign debt architecture oriented toward development”, Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Inés...
Intrigues, Interstate Rivalry Undermine Actualisation of Single African Air Transport Market
This Day
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July 4, 2025
Chinedu Eze The plan to expand African air travel market is currently being hindered by intrigues and inter-state rivalry by countries that do not want the actualisation of the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM). These countries, it was...
SA engineers released from Equatorial Guinea jail after diplomatic push and presidential clemency
IOL
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Two South African engineers, Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, have returned home after spending more than two years in prison in Equatorial Guinea on what their families and government officials have described as trumped-up drug charges. The pair...
Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea Sign Deal to Advance Joint Natural Gas Pipeline Project
Pipeline Technology Journal
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June 24, 2025
Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea have signed a joint communiqué, moving closer to implementing the Gulf of Guinea Gas Pipeline (GOGGP) project treaty, which aims to bolster regional energy cooperation and economic development. The agreement,...
SBM Offshore engineers released from prison in Equatorial Guinea
Splash 247
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June 24, 2025
Two SBM Offshore engineers, detained for more than two years in Equatorial Guinea, have returned home over the weekend after receiving a presidential pardon. The two engineers, Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham of South Africa, were arrested in...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
CEMAC: Central Bank maintains optimistic forecast for inflation drop to under 3% by 2025
Business in Cameroon
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July 2, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - The French-speaking Central African Banking Commission (CEMAC) remains optimistic regarding its inflation forecast after the second session of its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) for 2025. CEMAC's central bank predicts an...
CEMAC Central Bank Sees Inflation Dropping Below 3% in 2025
Business in Cameroon
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July 2, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) expects inflation in the CEMAC (Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, and Central African Republic) region to fall below 3% by the end of 2025. This outlook follows the...
Baltasar Engonga sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for financial misconduct
Technext
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July 2, 2025
Former Director General of the National Agency for Financial Investigation of Equatorial Guinea, Baltasar Engonga Ebang, has been convicted and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment after being found guilty of embezzling over 1 billion CFA francs of...
South African engineers released from Equatorial Guinea prison
Mail & Guardian
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June 23, 2025
Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham were jailed for more than two years after Vice-president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue’s assets were seized in Cape Town South African engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, detained for more than two years on...
Engineers Frik Potgieter, Peter Huxham released from detention in Equatorial Guinea
Engineering News
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South African engineers Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, who had been detained in Equatorial Guinea since February 9, 2023, have been released and are back in South Africa, their families confirmed on June 21. Their release follows a pardon from...
South African engineers freed after two years in Equatorial Guinea jail
BBC
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June 22, 2025
Two South African engineers have returned home after spending more than two years in jail in Equatorial Guinea on what the UN has called "arbitrary and illegal" drugs charges. Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, both in their mid-50s, were arrested...