IMF approves $3.5bn loan for Ivory Coast
The country has been under financial strain.
The IMF has approved a $3.5bn loan for Ivory Coast. It said the loan will help the country tackle the triple shocks of the Covid pandemic, global monetary tightening and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
China's embassy in Kenya has denied a Reuters news agency report that Chinese hackers attacked key state agencies in the capital, Nairobi, including the presidency.
Sierra Leone鈥檚 iconic Cotton Tree has fallen during a storm in Freetown.
And Africa Day this year marks 60 years since the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU).
(Photo: Vendors sell fish at market in Abobo, suburb of Abidjan. Credit: Issouf Sanogo/ AFP via Getty Images).
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