TEHRAN (ANA)- Kenya's economy expanded 4.6 percent in the second quarter of 2024, a slowdown from the 5.6 percent growth recorded in a similar period the previous year, the country's national statistics bureau said.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Zambia has attracted a total investment of about 58 million U.S. dollars in digital infrastructure following the removal of tax on importation of equipment for digital infrastructure in 2021, a senior government official said.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said that Egypt's external debt declined by more than 15 billion U.S. dollars in six months to go below 153 billion dollars, the Egyptian cabinet said in a statement.
TEHRAN (ANA)- The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has announced that it has granted licenses to five non-bank companies to operate as Ethiopia's first-ever independent foreign exchange (FX) bureaus.
TEHRAN (ANA)- The growth rate of Egypt's gross domestic product slowed to 2.4 percent in the fiscal year 2023/24 that ended in June, down from 3.8 percent in the previous fiscal year, according to a statement released by the country's Ministry of Planning and Economic Development.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Ghana said it has achieved more than 90 percent restructuring of its external debt since the beginning of the debt restructuring process in December 2022.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Kenya's foreign exchange reserves rose for the sixth straight week to hit a near two-year high of 8.19 billion U.S. dollars, the country's apex bank said in its weekly update of the financial markets.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Egypt has lost $6 billion in Suez Canal revenue due to escalating geopolitical tensions in the region, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said.
TEHRAN (ANA)- The Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway began transporting livestock from central Ethiopia to ports in Djibouti, according to the Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company (EDR).