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IMF Reaches Agreement with Kenya on Credit Facility The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached a staff-level agreement with Kenya on the fifth review of the Extended Fund Facility and Extended Credit Facility Arrangements and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility. Haimanot Teferra led the team that visited Nairobi for the fifth review of Kenya’s economic program supported by the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and Extended Credit Facility (ECF). The arrangements were approved by the IMF Executive Board on April 2, 2021. Including augmentation at the time of the fourth reviews, these arrangements provide access to a total amount of…

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Dangote Refinery to Generate $21bn, Employs Youths Amid encomium from eminent personalities, which included President Mohammadu Buhari and five other African heads of state, President of the pan-African Conglomerate, Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Aliko Dangote disclosed yesterday that the newly commissioned 650,000pbd refinery would employ over 100,000 Nigerians youths as well as generate over $21 billion, therefore saving the country huge forex, that would have been used for fuel importation. The company, according to him, now has over 33,000 employees. Much to the excitement of Nigerians, Dangote said the commissioning has marked the beginning of a new journey of self-sufficiency…

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