• Kenya

    Kenya eyes Blue economy to net more from fishing

    Cs urges the technocrats and stakeholders to deliberate on the mechanisms of safeguarding the border posts by eliminating porous entry that compromise the environment to trade and conduct their business.

  • Uruguay

    Mercedes-Benz Korea Aims to Sell 60,000 Cars in Korea This Year

    Mercedes-Benz is enjoying a rising popularity in Korea's import car market. After breaking the 50,000 level in annual sales last year, first among import car brands, Mercedes-Benz expects this trend to continue this year. For the January-March period of this year, Mercedes-Benz sold 19,119 cars in Korea. If this trend continues toward the end of this ...

  • Cina

    E-Mart to exit China on widening losses, THAAD woes

    E-Mart Inc., South Korea's largest discount outlet chain by revenue, is closing down its business in China two decades a

  • USA

    Korea’s trade surplus with US under Trump down 34 percent

    South Korea’s trade surplus with the US fell roughly 34 percent on-year in the first four months of 2017, amid the new U

  • USA Kenya

    Armed groups targeting civilians in Central African Republic

    Source: Human Rights Watch Country: Central African RepublicApparent reprisal killings over the past three months have left at least 45 people dead and at least 11,000 displaced, Human Rights Watch said.Violence Spikes in Central Region (Nairobi) – Armed groups fighting for control of a central province in the Central African Republic have targeted civilians ...

  • USA

    Mobilizing communities to improve nutrition in Mali

    Source: Action Against Hunger USA Country: MaliAction Against Hunger’s program aims to empower community health workers to spot the warning signs of malnutrition and get early treatment to prevent children from becoming seriously ill in the first place.Local health champions deliver big impact “A few weeks ago, my daughter Awa became very ...

  • Ghana Nigeria

    Nigeria’s tax to GDP ratio unacceptably low – Adeosun

    Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has said that the nation’s tax to Gross Domestic Product ratio, which is currently put at six per cent, is one of the lowest in the world. She said with such a ratio, which is less than the 15 per ...

  • Angola Nigeria

    World Bank blames Nigeria’s forex crisis on fixed exchange regime

    Everest Amaefule, Abuja The World Bank has blamed Nigeria’s enduring foreign exchange instability on the fixed exchange regime in the official forex market. In a publication on African economies titled: ‘Africa’s Pulse,’ the World Bank singled out Nigeria and Angola as two countries that had yet to experience stability in ...

  • Nigeria

    ‘CBN loan blocking our access to finance’

    Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja Power distribution companies in the country on Monday said part of the N201.6bn Central Bank of Nigeria loan reflecting on their accounts had been an impediment to their ability to borrow money to finance capital projects. According to them, the CBN’s N152.16bn loan reflecting on their accounts ...

  • Nigeria

    Will Nigeria get out of recession in Q3 as CBN predicted?

    I don’t know what indicators they are looking at. I don’t think it is justified because from all critical indicators – inflation, level of ease of doing business, and the power situation that has even compounded most of the problems – there is no sign that all is well. I ...