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6 days ago | 
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
southwestfarmer.co.uk | Tom Collins
WHAT a challenging time for all of us across the farming community, the wet weather resulting in yet another difficult harvest and now a tough planting season. On my farm in Wiltshire, I had hoped for better weather after last year where the continuous heavy rain meant that our combine’s yield monitor wasn’t showing the normal colourful yield map as we sliced our way through our wheat harvest.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
newlinesmag.com | Tom Collins
The West African country is investing in security, especially on its troubled border with Burkina Faso The long-abandoned safari lodge stands lonely and deserted in the West African sun. Hours from the nearest road, in the middle of a national park full of dusty plains and scrubland, the once-bustling collection of tourist huts now hosts a different kind of visitor.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
uaetechnewstracker.com | Tom Collins |Ben Payton |Mariam Almheiri
As the United Arab Emirates prepares to host the COP28 climate summit later this year, the Gulf state is increasingly conspicuous by its presence in Africa’s burgeoning green finance sector. A group of Emirati investors unveiled a landmark $4.5bn pledge to invest in clean energy projects on the continent at the Africa Climate Summit earlier this month.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
fintechreporteruk.com | Harry Clynch |Bryan Turner |Tom Collins
British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution (DFI) and impact investor, and FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, today announced their joint commitments of up to $20m each to Dashen Bank – one of Ethiopia’s largest private sector banks. The loan will help to drive agricultural exports and provide access to much-needed foreign exchange within Ethiopia.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
shorturl.at | African Banker |Tom Collins |Neil Ford
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs)are often described as the backbone of most economies. Large-scale investment by huge corporations usually attracts most of the headlines but SMEs make a huge contribution to GDP and account for more employment than their larger counterparts. It is therefore vital that SMEs have adequate access to financial services, but this has traditionally been lacking in large parts of Africa.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
theaustralian.com.au | Tom Collins
The leaders of a coup in Niger have been given a deadline to restore the country’s elected president to power by African neighbours, after the junta vowed to “defend their homeland” from military action.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
newlinesmag.com | Tom Collins
Clarisse Bassole was only 13 years old when her uncle dropped her off at a cocoa bean plantation in the middle of the rainforest in West Africa’s Ivory Coast. For three years, she was forced by local farmers to cultivate a fruit that is coveted by billions of Western consumers while sleeping in makeshift tents amid awful living conditions. “I slept on the floor every night, and in the morning I would pick cocoa,” she told New Lines.
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Jun 4, 2023 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Tom Collins
Mira Tankoino was working at the market in a lawless frontier town on Benin’s northern border when more than 20 armed jihadists arrived on motorbikes. The insurgents, who had occupied a long-abandoned tourist lodge in neighbouring Burkina Faso, asked the residents of Kourou Koalou to leave. When Tankoino, 45, and others refused, the men resorted to a brutality that is all too common in the Sahel region of Africa, a vast semi-arid territory south of the Sahara.
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May 26, 2023 | 
finxtech.com | Tom Collins
Even the most optimistic outlook on today’s economic environment is uncertain at best. Interest rates are at a decades-plus high, loan demand is slowing and talks of a recession mount. Recent market volatility and threats of deposit run off have heightened the need for banks to adopt a balanced segmentation and portfolio management strategy — one anchored by data — that can help banks both attract and deepen relationships with their most valuable customers and mitigate deposit loss.
