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Kenya
Business: Campaigners look to Kenya court to block Lamu coal plant
Environmentalists seeking to halt a 1,000 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant on Kenya's unspoilt northern coast are pinning their hopes on a court hearing later this month, following its approval by the energy industry regulator.
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Francia Singapore
Hanwha Joins Hands with Total to Acquire Jurong Aromatics
Hanwha Group joined hands with France's Total to acquire Singapore's chemical joint venture Jurong Aromatics Corp. If this attempt to acquire Jurong Aromatics ends up in a success, Hanwha could make bigger forays into Asia and Europe by using Singapore as its base. In addition to Hanwha Group, a string ...
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USA Giappone
Toshiba's Potential Loss Snowballs
The potential loss for Japan's Toshiba is snowballing into a bigger loss. Toshiba is expected to face an additional loss of up to hundreds of billions of yen due to the delay in the construction of a nuclear power plant in the United States. In addition, there is a potential that ...
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USA Corea del Sud
South Korea Likely to Fall Victim to Trump's Trade Sanctions Game...Prof. Eichengreen
"It is likely the Trump administration will respond with trade sanctions against South Korea and hardline positions against North Korea. The era of super-uncertainty for the Korean Peninsula has already begun." Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, said this in a keynote speech on March ...
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USA
Korea-US FTA results in US export increases, better-paying jobs to American workers
The free trade agreement between South Korea and the United States has brought about increases in overall US exports to
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Egitto USA
WFP provides school meals to Syrian children across Aleppo city
Source: World Food Programme Country: Syrian Arab RepublicThe meals, including a carton of milk fortified with vitamins and minerals and a locally-baked date bar, have been distributed to about 15,000 children at 30 schools in Aleppo since the programme began on 5 March.DAMASCUS – In March, the United Nations World Food ...
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Francia
Amélioration génétique : le haras de Quesnay promet son appui à celui du Sénégal
Kébémer, 9 mars (PS) - Le haras de Quesnay (France) va appuyer le haras national du Sénégal dans le domaine de l'amélioration génétique, aux termes d'un protocole signé jeudi par les deux parties et qui porte sur des accords de partenariat, a constaté l'APS. - Elevage
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Nigeria
Vehicle duty: Senate threatens to remove Customs DG
Leke Baiyewu, Abuja The Senate on Wednesday asked the Director General, Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), to appear before it ‘unfailingly’ next Wednesday. The lawmakers also stated that the Customs boss would not be admitted into the chamber if he failed to appear in the uniform of the ...
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Nigeria
The shambles of the current forex regulations
Emmanuel Nwachukwu For decades bad policy decisions have bedevilled development in Nigeria and fuelled corruption. We have tended to go for populist solutions and ignored the long term impact of such decisions on the economy. The recent changes to Nigeria’s foreign exchange regulations are one of such policy decisions. The ...
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Nigeria
CBN boosts forex supply by $170m
’Femi Asu The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday offered the sum of $100m as wholesale interventions and sold about $70m to meet requests for business and personal travel allowances. The CBN said the move was in a bid to sustain the tempo of foreign exchange supply to the interbank ...