Monrovia (Liberia) The vice president of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for Sub-Saharan Africa, Thierry Tanoh, will visit Liberia in 22 and 23 November, APA learns here Friday.
According to a press statement issued in Monrovia Friday, the visit of Ivorian national Tanoh is meant to highlight the support IFC provides for Liberia’s development through [...]

The International Monetary Fund predicted Senegal’s economic growth will accelerate to 3.5 percent next year, with inflation returning to about 2 percent from negative levels.
“The global financial crisis and domestic shocks are affecting Senegal’s economy,” IMF mission chief Norbert Funke said today in an e-mailed statement.
“However, the expected global recovery and the pursuit by Senegal’s [...]

Ghana’s central bank cut its benchmark lending rate for the first time in almost three years after the country’s currency pared losses, helping to slow inflation.
The prime rate was reduced to 18 percent from 18.5 percent, Bank of Ghana Governor Kwesi Amissah-Arthur told reporters today in the capital, Accra. It was Amissah-Arthur’s first rate- setting [...]