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Kenya
Kenya: Facebook entry into cash transfer service hots up competition
This follows a partnership by the financial technology startup TransferWise and Facebook Messenger and is another marker of the next wave of disruption expected to hit the financial services sector.
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Kenya
Kenya: DP Ruto makes friends and foes with his hard-ball politics
He also implied that Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho was in criminal business while Wiper Leader Kalonzo Musyoka, a former Vice President, was misled by Raila to prostrate on the tarmac in last year's anti-IEBC commissioners' protest.
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Kenya
Nakumatt blames poor sales as it closes Ronald Ngala branch
Nakumatt Supermarket has closed its Ronald Ngala branch, Nairobi citing low sales from the downtown shop that has been operational for many years.
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Turchia Austria
Turkey’s Erdoğan ‘not welcome’ to campaign in Austria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is “not welcome” to hold campaign events in Austria ahead of the upcoming referendum that will decide whether the current parliamentary system should be shifted into an executive presidency, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said on Feb. 27
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Turchia
Turkey’s economic confidence rebounds in February
Confidence in Turkey’s economy rebounded in February after a two-month dip, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) reported on Feb. 27.
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Spagna
Economía/Empresas.- Biosearch pierde 4,7 millones en 2016 por una rebaja del valor de su fondo de comercio
br /> MADRID, 27 (EUROPA PRESS) Biosearch registró unas pérdidas antes de impuestos de 4,69 millones de euros en el ejercicio 2016, frente a los 'números rojos' de 158.000 euros del año anterior, debido a los ajustes realizados en el valor del fondo de comercio del ...
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Kuwait
Desperate humanitarian situation for about 750,000 civilians in western Mosul
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: IraqSince military operations began on 19 February, some 8,000 people have fled western Mosul and surrounding villages to locations south of Mosul city, arriving often exhausted and dehydrated. Highlights • Since military operations in western Mosul began on 19 February, approximately 8,000 people ...
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USA
Millions without drinking water as rainstorms batter central Chile
Source: Deutsche Welle Country: ChileLandslides around the capital, Santiago have contaminated a major river and cut off the drinking water supply to around 4 million people. At least three people have died and dozens are missing.Landslides around the Chilean capital of Santiago have contaminated a major river and cut off the ...
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USA Argentina Pakistan
'Education increasingly becoming a casualty' of Afghan conflict
Source: Norwegian Refugee Council Country: AfghanistanTwo students were killed in Laghman Province, and seven others and a teacher injured, when a mortar round struck their school on Saturday 25 February.“Two students were tragically and needlessly killed in Laghman Province, and seven others and a teacher injured, when a mortar round struck ...
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Spagna
Economía.- Ezentis sale de pérdidas en 2016 y gana 903.000 euros
br /> MADRID, 27 (EUROPA PRESS) Ezentis registró un beneficio neto de 903.000 euros al cierre de su ejercicio 2016, frente a las pérdidas netas por importe de 10,9 millones de euros registradas el año anterior, según ha informado la compañía a la Comisión Nacional del ...