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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FIDIC-GAMA 2019 CONFERENCE

Posted on May 24, 2019April 24, 2020 by Gambeta News

Highlights of interesting activities at the Fidic-Gama 2019 conference in Kampala Uganda. The 26th FIDIC-GAMA Infrastructure Conference in Kampala Uganda was littered with lots of interesting activities. The 3 days (12th – 14th May 2019) International conference organized by the Uganda Association of Consulting Engineers (UACE) and sponsored by the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) was held at the Kampala Serena hotel. The event had amazing speakers who presented papers centred around the programme’s theme:…

ECOWAS: COMMON CURRENCY ATTAINABLE BY 2020

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Gambeta News

ECOWAS set 2020 as deadline for implementing common currency. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it is working assiduously to introduce a common currency by 2020. Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, Commissioner for Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Research at the ECOWAS Secretariat, said a high-level Technical Group is working on implementing the single currency. This announcement came at a meeting attended by representatives of eight central banks from the sub-region, officials of finance ministries, West Africa…

TURKEY TARGETS US$1bn TRADING WITH GHANA BY 2020

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Gambeta News

Turkey seeks to increase its trading volume with Ghana to a billion dollars by 2020 Ghana-Turkey became Sub-Saharan Africa’s 3rd largest trading partner in 2016 with a trading volume of US$480 million, but the Ambassador of Turkey to Ghana, Nesrin Bayazit, has said that she is targeting to increase this volume to US$1 billion by 2020. Nesrin believes that with improved commitment and increased collaboration, among the two countries, the US$1 billion target can be achieved. A Joint Economic Committee…