• Nigeria

    Customs generated N898bn as revenue in 2016

    The Nigeria Customs Service has generated N898bn as revenue in 2016, including VAT. The NCS spokesman, Mr. Joseph Attah, on Monday said that the figure was however less than the N904bn collected in 2015. He attributed the shortfall to the difficulty in accessing foreign exchange and removal of the 41 ...

  • Nigeria

    Gambia: Nigeria On Standby To Evacuate Citizens

    Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs and diaspora, has said that the federal government is ‘on standby’ to evacuate Nigerians in the Gambia if the need arises. As the crisis continues to thicken, as a result   of the refusal of President Yahaya Jammeh to step ...

  • Nigeria

    Police Parade 7 Suspected Kidnappers Of Hirse, 2 Others

    The Nigeria Police Force, yesterday, paraded seven suspected kidnappers, who were allegedly responsible for the kidnap of former foreign affairs minister, Bagudu Hirse in Kaduna last year. ‎ The suspects are Dominic Nwakpa (aka Alhaji) who is the gang leader, Ifeanyi Chukwu, Balat Paul, Ibrahim Samuel, Jatau Peter (a dismissed ...

  • Bolivia

    L’inefficacité des mécanismes de contrôle

    Les pouvoirs publics rassurent, les commerçants se défendent, les producteurs justifient et les consommateurs se plaignent. A chacun sa réaction en ce début d’année face à la hausse quasi générale des prix, particulièrement ceux relevant de l’alimentaire. Des hausses justifiées dans le cadre de la loi de finances 2017 dans ...

  • Bolivia

    Le syndrome algérien Ben Ali - Trabelsi devant ses premières conséquences

    Il ne faut pas faire attention aux déclarations de circonstances. Le pouvoir politique algérien pensait avoir acheté du temps. Les événements de Béjaïa lui montrent qu’il n’en a presque plus. La dernière séquence semblable à ce début janvier 2017 n’est pas lointaine. Les émeutes surprises de janvier 2011. Liées à ...

  • Yemen

    EU and FAO team up to address alarming food insecurity in Yemen

    Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Country: YemenWith 14 million people food insecure in strife-torn Yemen, the European Union has committed 12 million euros in support of the UN Food Agency's efforts to tackle rising hunger.Partnership to directly assist 150 000 people and strengthen early warning information 9 January ...

  • Pakistan

    More than 1.3 million Afghan children under five need treatment for acute malnutrition

    Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Afghanistan, PakistanNutrition surveys in 2016 show global acute malnutrition (GAM) prevalence ranging from 10.9% to 20.7%. Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) has breached emergency thresholds in 20 of 34 provinces. NEEDS SUMMARY Afghanistan remains one of the most dangerous, and most violent, crisis ridden ...

  • Etiopia

    AIC profit increases

    One of the oldest private insurers in the country Africa Insurance Company, seems to have been able to achieve quite a bit in the past fiscal year. During 2015/16 their income from written premiums increased by 16 percent or 56 million birr and stood at 406.8 million birr. The company ...

  • Cina Etiopia

    Silk Road International Bank opens first Africa office in Djibouti

      China’s first overseas commercial bank for Africa is going to be opened in partnership with the government of Djibouti. An agreement for the first overseas commercial bank established under China’s Belt and Road Initiative was signed in Djibouti on November 16. With the acceleration of Chinese enterprises’ “Going out”, ...

  • Cina

    Tanzania: Country Joins China-Led Economic Strategy

    [Daily News] Tanzania has been selected among seven countries to join China One Belt, One Road strategy. The move is in line with the fifth phase government's initiatives to link the country with big business strategies in Asia, Europe and Africa.