[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa says work is underway to establish a gender collaborative fund to support women entrepreneurs to scale their businesses.

[Seychelles News Agency] Seychelles' economy continues to record a strong recovery in 2022 and debt vulnerability has been substantially reduced as tourism activity rebounds, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief for the island nation stated on Wednesday.

[Seychelles News Agency] A new fishing facility, partly financed by the European Union to support the fishing community in the eastern Mahe districts of Cascade and Pointe Larue to sell their products, was officially opened on Wednesday.

[FrontPageAfrica] Venice -- Liberia, through the Armed Forces of Liberia, has become the newest member of the multinational Trans-Regional Maritime Network (T-RMN).

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A month after launching the Port Automation and Digitization system (PAD), APM Terminals Liberia is already recording milestones in the efficiency of the system.

[Ghanaian Times] Kumasi -- The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has told the Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) that he is not in the position to protect anybody found culpable in the act of illegal mining.

[Leadership] Experts and stakeholders in food and agricultural sector have reiterated the need to draft policy document for rice Fortification in Nigeria, adding that, this would drive the adoption of inclusive strategy to recognise the market structure of the industry.

[SAnews.gov.za] Despite the prevailing difficult fiscal position, government believes the 3% salary increase offer to public servants is "generous".

[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The perimeters irrigated under greenhouse by geothermal water in the governorate of Gabes intended for the cultivation of early vegetables reached during this agricultural season 153 ha, whose production was estimated at 29,933 thousand tonnes, according to a document published by the local authority for agricultural development.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Google is set to establish a cloud region in South Africa, the first in the continent, that will assist users move their information and tools online.

[Capital FM] Logistic firm Sendy has sent 20 per cent of its employees home after stopping its retail and supplier trading platform.

[Capital FM] Safaricom Ethiopia has begun its telecommunication services in Ethiopia, opening a huge market opportunity for the Kenyan unit Safaricom.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Pan-African platform, Savabyte has unveiled a tech capacity hub that is expected to promote the inclusion and participation of women in technology in Africa.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has announced that the newly constructed Wakulima Market located along Kangundo road will be opened at the end of October this year.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- South African Airways (SAA) has resumed its operations in Kenya after shutting down for the last two years.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday for the launch of Safaricom operations as well as hold talks with his host Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Safaricom Ethiopia will officially be launched in Ethiopia today, targeting the Country's over 90 million population.

[Premium Times] The inferno affected 12 vehicles.

[Premium Times] The Obajana Cement was purportedly sold by the Kogi government to Dangote Cement in 2002, but the current administration questions the acquisition.

[Daily Trust] The management of Nigeria Air has raised alarm over a cloned recruitment portal acting as agent of the Nigeria Air and collecting applications from unsuspecting members of the public.

[GroundUp] Yashoda Ram says she remains curator of the funeral insurance company

[Premium Times] The teachers are owed several months of salaries and gratuities.

[Premium Times] The gesture was part of the activities marking the 2022 World Teachers Day.

[Vanguard] PETROL queues have returned to filling stations in Abuja after barely three months of relative calm."Checks around the city yesterday, showed that most stations were out of stock and shut to business.

[Vanguard] Crude oil bunkerers in Niger Delta have invented a new ploy of cutting down trees in the swampy terrains, which they used to cordon off the creeks to prevent operatives of the security company of ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, Tantita Security Services, TSS, from getting access to the hideouts where they keep their illegally refined products, boats and equipment.

[Vanguard] Barely 48 hours to the presentation of the 2023 Appropriation Bill to the joint sitting of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Presidency said yesterday that proposal could still be altered tomorrow to accommodate inputs that may have been omitted.

[Leadership] There is relief in affected families and across Nigeria after terrorists yesterday released the remaining 23 passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna train abducted on March 28, 2022.

[FrontPageAfrica] With the growing waves of Information Communications Technologies (ICT) in developing countries, the Minister of Posts & Telecommunications, Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah Sr. has pleaded strongly at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU's) Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22) in Bucharest, Romania building a strong case for possible ICT expansion in Liberia.

[Concord] There is no gainsaying that mining, especially for minerals is playing an important role in Sierra Leone's economic development thereby significantly helping to raise and preserve people's living standards in the country. There is also no contradictory fact that where these mining activities take place, the land is usually cleared of all its vegetation, the landscape drastically altered, and the ecosystem often totally disrupted.

[allAfrica] Cape Town --