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The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc on Thursday announced that all its African subsidiaries are now on firm footing as they have been contributing maximally to the group’s profit margin.

The bank said its African operations, specifically, have contributed close to 50 per cent of the group’s earnings, leveraging on digital offerings and products across the board to gain large market shares across the different regions of operations in Africa.

June 17, 2022 (ENA) Ethiopia will work to further strengthen its economic ties with West African countries, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

West African Countries Director at the Ministry, Elias Melaku said Ethiopia, being a country with huge impact on the geopolitics of the Horn, will strive to cooperate in strengthening economic integration with the countries in the region.  

The Ethio-Djibouti railway and the Ethio-Kenya road are among the efforts worth mentioning in this regard, he added.

•NERC, Discos, Gencos, TCN seal deal on compulsory supply of 5000mw of power from July 1

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja and Peter Uzoho in Lagos

As Nigerians continue to contend with erratic power supply, the World Bank has said the country would need about $100 billion in the next 10 years to tackle the challenge which has defied all efforts by administrations since 1999.

Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the African Region are expected to decline by almost 94% in 2022 compared to 2021 which was the deadliest year of the pandemic, according to a new analysis by the World Health Organization (WHO).

This drop comes as the number of cases is expected to fall by just over 25% this year.

The Delegation of the European Union to Sierra Leone in collaboration with the Sierra Leone School Green Club (SLSGC) will on Monday 6th June 2022, organise a youth climate poetry and arts competition for Senior Secondary Schools, to raise awareness on the impact of climate change and environmental degradation in Sierra Leone, as part of celebrations marking World Environment Day 2022.

It took a lot of waiting, “after 60 years” in the words of star player, Sadio Mane, and much frustration, failing at the last hurdle on two previous occasions, but at last the West African nation of Senegal has been crowned as African football champions.

The Senegalese footballers, after a hesitant start to the 2022 AFCON (African Cup of Nations) finals, won the coveted trophy last Sunday by first outplaying and then defeating seven-time AFCON champions Egypt on penalties. It was also redemption time for Senegal’s captain and star player Mane as well as coach Aliou Cisse.

It took a lot of waiting, “after 60 years” in the words of star player, Sadio Mane, and much frustration, failing at the last hurdle on two previous occasions, but at last the West African nation of Senegal has been crowned as African football champions.

The Senegalese footballers, after a hesitant start to the 2022 AFCON (African Cup of Nations) finals, won the coveted trophy last Sunday by first outplaying and then defeating seven-time AFCON champions Egypt on penalties. It was also redemption time for Senegal’s captain and star player Mane as well as coach Aliou Cisse.

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Addis Ababa February 6/2022/ENA/  The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta urged African leaders to maximize their efforts to eliminate Malaria by 2030 in the continent.

President Kenyatta, who is also chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), made the remark today during the launch of the 2021 Malaria Progress Report on Africa in Addis Ababa on the margins of the ongoing 35th African Union Summit.

According the report malaria remains a significant threat to the health and socio-economic development of Africa.