Lawmakers edge toward deal on $25 billion in cash coronavirus aid for airlines

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>The government has said the proposal to increase MPs’ salaries is “impossible” and advised those pushing for the idea to drop it because there is no money for “non-priorities”.

Dodoma. The government owes India’s Apollo Hospitals and Medical Stores Department a total of Sh127 billion, Parliament was told yesterday.

Libyan lawmakers are set to sign a disputed UN-sponsored agreement on a unity government Thursday despite a warning from the heads of rival parliaments that the deal has no legitimacy.

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Tanzania: Sh4 Billion Uhuru Day Cash for City Road
AllAfrica.com
Dar es Salaam — President John Magufuli's decision to cancel this year's Independence celebrations has saved Sh4 billion, State House said yesterday. President Magufuli has now directed that the money be used for the expansion of a 4.3 kilometre ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping told African leaders on Friday his country would pump $60 billion into development projects, cancel some debt and boost agriculture under a three-year plan that will extend Beijing's influence in the continent.

Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for cash from Norway.