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Kenya
How Burundi crisis has hit Kenya’s trade ambitions
Burundi is on the EU’s sanction list for the violence that punctuated President Pierre Nkurunziza’s third term bid in 2015.
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Kenya
Kenya: Two former National Bank officials charged with fraud
Former NBK chief finance officer Chris Chepkoit is facing conspiracy to defraud the bank and abuse of office charges.
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Kenya
Kenya: Court allows IEBC to give tender for ballot papers
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has been allowed to proceed with evaluation of firms that are seeking to supply ballot papers.
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Costa Rica
El colón, la moneda de Costa Rica, se devalúa 6.5% en los últimos cinco meses
Una menor prima de tipo de interés hizo que ahorrar en la moneda local fuera menos atractivo, con lo cual muchos ahorradores cambiaron a otras divisas, dijo el banco central.
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Spagna
Economía/Empresas.- Cellnex gestionará 2.239 torres en Suiza tras comprar en consorcio Swiss Towers AG por 430 millones
MADRID, 24 (EUROPA PRESS) Cellnex Telecom, en consorcio con Swiss Life Asset Managers y Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, ha alcanzado un acuerdo con Sunrise Communications International para comprar el 100% de Swiss Towers AG, filial del operador suizo de telefonía móvil, que opera 2.239 torres y emplazamientos de ...
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Corea del Sud
Interest Groups Take to the Streets in Droves after Moon Takes Power
Even after the presidential election was over, the public squares in Seoul's Gwanghwamun and Cheonggye are filled with protesters. But they are different crowds from those demanding President Park Geun-hye to step down or asking for truth for their children's death in the ferry sinking incident. Now, the streets are ...
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Nigeria
CBN to sell dollars to clear demand backlog
Oyetunji Abioye The Central Bank of Nigeria is planning to sell an undisclosed amount of dollars to settle a backlog of foreign exchange demand for airlines, fuel and raw material importers. Foreign exchange traders said the CBN had asked commercial banks to submit bids for dollars to cover the previously ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria’s debt to climb to 24.1% of GDP by 2018 – IMF
Everest Amaefule, Abuja Nigeria’s indebtedness will climb to 24.1 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product by 2018, the International Monetary Fund has said. The IMF, which stated this in its World Economic and Financial Surveys, also projected that by the end of 2017, the country’s current indebtedness would have ...
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Nigeria
About Nigeria’s crony capitalism
Lekan Sote The friend, whose theory is that dollars stolen from crude oil sales – fake or over-invoiced importation of petroleum products – and kept out of circulation, thereby significantly diminishing the foreign exchange available to Nigerians, has another theory. He says that crony capitalism, thriving on state-sponsored scarcity, caused ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria’s GDP contracts by -0.52 %
• Presidency: Economy exiting recession Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by -0.52 per cent (year-on-year) in real terms in the first quarter of 2017, a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has indicated. The NBS report, tagged, ‘Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report for first quarter 2017’ released ...