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AfCFTA is an important tool to help stimulate investment and to create African value chains. (Image source: cegoh/Pixabay)

The AU ministerial meeting from 5-6 May is discussing the trade response to COVID-19 and the state of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)

Rural smallholders can use electricity to unlock or accelerate revenue streams from agricultural productivity and processing worth US$4bn by 2025. (Image source: meaduva/Flickr)

Rural electricity is set to unlock the potential of Ethiopias economy, according to a report by Rocky Mountain Institute

The consumer price index (CPI) measures inflation increased by 12.26 per cent (year-on-year) in March 2020. (Image source: Thomas Widmann/Flickr)

Nigeria’s inflation rate rose to 12.26 per cent in March 2020 from 12.20 per cent in February and 12.3 per cent and January 2020, maintaining a consistent rise for eight months

The IMF is urging African countries and their partners to boost health spending and provide social transfers to those whose livelihoods are being upended. (Image source: meaduva/Flickr)

The UN secretary-general António Guterres has pledged that the international organisation is standing in solidarity with Africa as it braces against the unprecedented economic, social and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Africa COVID-19 Response Fund is a financial instrument to mobilise and manage funds from the private sector in Africa. (Image source: Tony/Adobe Stock)

Ahead of an expected surge in cases of COVID-19 in Africa, the African Union and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have launched a public-private partnership with the AfroChampions Initiative, known as the Africa COVID-19 Response Fund

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