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Struggling Ghana plans tax rise, debt swap to secure IMF aid
Struggling Ghana plans tax rise, debt swap to secure IMF aid
by  AFP

Ghana's finance minister, Kenneth Ofori-Atta, presented the 2023 budget to parliament on Thursday, hiking tax and planning a debt swap as the country's negotiates an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan. Ofori-Atta said the IMF talks had made "substantial progress", with agreement on "fiscal adjustment path, debt strategy and financing".

Algeria sentences scores to death over forest fire lynching: media
Algeria sentences scores to death over forest fire lynching: media
by  AFP

An Algerian court Thursday sentenced 49 people to death over the lynching of a man falsely accused of starting deadly forest fires during an extended heatwave last year, state media reported. The court in Dar El Beida on Thursday "sentenced 49 people to execution over (Ben Ismail's) murder and mutilation of his body," the APS news agency reported.

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