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Etiopia
Sheger Royal Joins Blossoming Hotel Industry
[Addis Fortune] A local company in the business of building rental, Sheger Plc, inaugurates a hotel worth a quarter of a billion Birr in the Bole district of Addis Abeba.
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USA Kenya Etiopia
WFP Compensates Farmers Affected By Crop Loss
[Addis Fortune] The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and Oxfam America under their Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) are going to receive insurance payments totalling 1.5 million dollars to compensate for weather-related crop losses in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal and Zambia.
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Kenya Etiopia
Faith Mustn't Be Lost With Eritrea, Even With Current Regime in Tow
[Addis Fortune] Last week, an international delegation led by Kairat Umarov, chair of the Somalia & Eritrea Sanctions Committee, visited officials at the Foreign Ministry to discuss one of the Horn of Africa's most complex political dilemmas. Umarov had previously paid similar visits to Djibouti and Kenya, consulting their governments ...
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Etiopia
We are all winners with AfCFTA, Ethiopian PM tells ECA Conference of Ministers.
[Economic Commission for Africa] ADDIS ABABA, 14 MAY 2018: The transformational opportunities offered by the African Continental Free Trade Area together with the measures needed to unlock them has been the focus for a High-level Ministerial Dialogue convened by the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
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Etiopia
A Way Forward for Food, Land Use in Ethiopia
[Addis Fortune] To unlock the potential of better food and land use, business leaders and policy-makers working in the food and land sectors need long-term science-based targets and pathways to make better-informed decisions, write Gemedo Dalle (PhD), Ethiopian minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, and Paul Polman, CEO of ...
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USA Giappone
Japan and U.S. to ‘move rapidly’ on trade deal, ambassador says
The United States and Japan will “move rapidly” to get a trade deal under a new framework aimed at intensifying bilateral trade consultations, U.S. Ambassador ...
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Cina USA
Trump’s sudden vow to help China’s sanctions-violating ZTE telecom giant spurs backlash in Washington
President Donald Trump’s pledge to help a Chinese telecommunication company that broke U.S. sanctions law sparked a backlash from lawmakers who said the move could ...
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USA
Seattle council votes on business ‘head tax’ to fight homeless surge
After weeks of tense and raucous meetings, a divided Seattle City Council is voting Monday whether to tax the city’s largest businesses to raise money ...
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Brasile
Dólar atinge maior valor em dois anos e chega a R$ 3,628
Mesmo após anunciar ajustes para ampliar a oferta de contratos de swap cambial, que equivale à venda de dólares no mercado futuro (uma forma de evitar a fuga de capitais do país), o Banco Central (BC) não conseguiu segurar uma nova alta da moeda norte-americana no pregão desta segunda-feira (14). ...
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Brasile Portogallo
Balança comercial tem superávit de US$ 3,1 bi no início de maio
A balança comercial brasileira registrou superávit de US$ 3,1 bilhões nas duas primeiras semanas de maio. Segundo o Ministério da Indústria, Comércio Exterior e Serviços (MDIC), o saldo é resultado da diferença entre exportações totais no valor de US$ 8,8 bilhões e importações de US$ 5,7 bilhões. No acumulado do ano ...