Growth & Progress

BBC NEWS AT BBC.CO.UK/NEWS Queues have formed outside banks in Zimbabwe as people hope to get hold of the country’s first Zimbabwe dollar notes issued since 2009. The currency was scrapped a decade ago because hyperinflation caused…

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Kenya has formally launched Africa’s biggest wind power plant, a mammoth project in a gusty stretch of wilderness that already provides nearly a fifth of the country’s energy needs. The $680 million project, a…

SEYCHELLES NEWS AGENCY The Seychelles is beginning to support the aquaculture industry by issuing licenses to farm five types of marine species. At the beginning of this new project, only Seychellois investors will be considered for…

VOICE OF AMERICA Ghana is preparing to conduct its first digital population and housing census beginning in March 2020. It will join Eswatini, Kenya and Malawi as one of the first countries in Africa to collect census data…

VOICE OF AMERICA Tanzania is planning to build a cable car service on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak and a World Heritage site. The country wants to boost tourism, but a quarter-million porters and mountain guides worry the…

ADF STAFF The second-biggest uncut diamond in history has been unearthed from a mine in Botswana. The 1,758-carat diamond is about the size of a tennis ball. The biggest diamond ever discovered is the 3,106-carat Cullinan, found in…