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[Afreximbank] Cairo, Egypt - 14 December 2025: Hassan Allam Construction, a subsidiary of Hassan Allam Holding, has been awarded a landmark USD 250 million contract for the construction of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) African Trade Centre, which will also host its new headquarters building, to be located in the New Capital of Egypt.

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[New Times] Rwanda produces most of the food it needs, yet more than half of what is consumed is imported. This stark contradiction is seen in the recent published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR).

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A two-decade old legal judgement should mean they are benefitting but they say they remain poor.

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[allAfrica] Washington, DC -- A decade of constitutional engineering, regional destabilization, and cross-border repression under President Patrice Talon made rupture inevitable. Stability in West Africa now depends on recognizing that the real threat to Benin did not begin in the barracks.

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[Leadership] The Nigerian military aircraft C-130 carrying 11 soldiers that made emergency landing in Burkina Faso over technical challenge, have remained detained by the authorities in Ouagadougou seven days after.

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[Premium Times] Abuja -- West African leaders adopt measures to reduce cost of air travel across the region.

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[Darfur Network for Human Rights] DNHR expresses its grave concern and unequivocal condemnation of the drone strike that killed six soldiers serving with the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166592 at a military base in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan State, on Saturday, December 13, 2025.

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[Daba Finance] SGTM's initial public offering closed on December 8 after drawing record demand from investors, marking one of the most significant transactions in the history of the Casablanca Stock Exchange.

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[Daba Finance] Kenya's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 9.0%, extending an easing cycle aimed at lifting bank lending and supporting economic growth.

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[Daba Finance] Ghana's economy expanded 5.5% year on year in the third quarter of 2025, supported by strong growth in agriculture and services, data from the national statistics service show.

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[Daba Finance] SAMB'A Assurances said it plans to list its shares on Central Africa's regional stock exchange, becoming one of the few insurers to seek public funding on the Bourse des Valeurs Mobilières d'Afrique Centrale (BVMAC).

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[Daba Finance] Cash Plus began trading on the Casablanca Stock Exchange on Monday after completing an initial public offering worth 750 million dirhams that drew strong demand from investors.

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[Daba Finance] Frigoglass Group has agreed to sell its entire stake in Frigoinvest Nigeria Holdings B.V., the holding company for its Nigerian glass operations, to Helios Investment Partners for proceeds of up to €100 million.

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[Daba Finance] The Rwanda Stock Exchange has launched a Multicurrency Denominated Securities Market Segment, allowing securities to be issued and traded in multiple currencies for the first time in the country's capital market.

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[Daba Finance] Dot Com Zambia Plc's initial public offering has been heavily oversubscribed, underscoring strong investor appetite ahead of its listing on the Lusaka Stock Exchange's alternative market, LuSE Alt-M.

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[Daba Finance] Namibia's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 6.50%, citing the need to protect its currency peg with South Africa as policy conditions tighten across the border.

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[Daba Finance] Safaricom Plc raised KES 20 billion ($154 million) from the first tranche of its medium-term note programme after investor demand came in at almost three times its initial target.

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[Daba Finance] Hostinger, a Lithuania-based web hosting and website-building company, has launched operations in Nigeria, targeting small businesses and entrepreneurs with AI-powered tools and local currency payments.

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[UN News] Civilians across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are facing collapsing health services and mass displacement as fighting spreads, undermining recent peace efforts and raising fears of a wider regional crisis.

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[Centre 4s] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has strong diplomatic relations with the Sahel, also based on the precious metal: gold. Concerned countries are: Sudan, Libya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, and Mauritania. Togo, a gold producer, is also of interest. All these countries are also fighting terrorism, which the UAE is combating everywhere. In 2024, the UAE imported nearly 1,400 tons of gold, worth over $105 billion, more than half of which--$748 billion--came from Africa.1 While its traceability is

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[Dabanga] South Sudanese troops have entered the Heglig oil field in West Kordofan after an agreement with Sudan's warring parties. The field processes some 130,000 barrels of South Sudanese crude for export via pipelines in Sudan.