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Brasile Cuba
More than 80 Latin American personalities call on Biden to close Guantanamo Bay
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Former foreign ministers, senators, former legislators, and personalities from Latin American countries political and academic world signed a joint statement urging U.S. President Joe Biden to close the Guantanamo prison. Specifically, there are 83 signatories to this document, released on Monday, which supports the recent ...
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Nuova Zelanda
Gallery collaboration sees new visual art festival for Wellington
There are hopes the capital's visual arts scene may get a profile boost by a new festival seeing galleries collaborate in an unusual partnership.
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Cina USA
Online share of retail sales jumps to 19 per cent amid lockdowns - UN
China's Alibaba remained atop the rankings by GMV, followed by Amazon in the United States.
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Savings, Investments Amidst Inflationary Pressures
[This Day] Timi Olubiyi urges investments as way of stemming excessive impact of inflation on the economy.
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Nigeria
Microsoft To Equip 5m Nigerians With Digital Skills In 3 Years
By Jonathan Nda-Isaiah | Leveraging Microsoft’s experience in the utiliation of technology as an enabler for the delivery of public and social good, the President Buhari administration is partnering with the tech giant to accelerate Nigeria’s certain advance towards a more digital economy in line with the Economic Sustainability Plan. ...
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Nigeria
BudgIT Exposes Corruption Loopholes In Budget Process, Calls For Reforms
By Makinde Oluwarotimi | A civic-tech non-profit organisation leading the advocacy for transparency and accountability in public finance in Nigeria, BudgIT, has called on the government to audit security spending and close loopholes for corruption in the budget process. BudgIT’s CEO, Gabriel Okeowo, while speaking on BudgIT’s recent publication, ‘Demanding ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA Raids Eateries In Plateau, Enugu, Recovers Drugged Cakes
By Ejike Ejike, Abuja | Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have raided some eateries in Jos, the Plateau State capital where freshly baked cakes made with cannabis sativa were recovered in addition to 48.726kilogrammes of assorted psychotropic substances. Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed ...
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Senegal
Plaidoyer pour un secteur privé fort
Dakar, 3 mai (APS) - Le Secrétaire de la section Afrique à la chambre de commerce, d'industrie et d'agriculture de Dakar (CCIAD) a plaidé, lundi, à Dakar pour l'émergence d'un secteur privé fort. - Economie
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Senegal
Macky Sall va lancer un projet dédié à l'économie des déchets solides, jeudi
Dakar, 3 mai (APS) - Le chef de l'Etat présidera la cérémonie de lancement du Projet de la promotion de la gestion intégrée et de l'économie des déchets solides au Sénégal (PROMOGED), jeudi à 8 h 30, à la décharge de Mbeubeuss (ouest), selon un communiqué du ministère de l'Hygiène ...
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Turchia
CHP submits law proposal to ‘enhance Central Bank independence’
The Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) group deputy chair has submitted the party’s law proposal to the parliament in an effort to “amend the law on the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, ” CHP spokesperson Faik Öztrak said on May 3.