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Nigeria
Nigeria saves N216bn from rice importation – BOA
Nigeria has saved over N216 billion from the importation of rice alone from Thailand and other countries since the nation’s domestic mass production flooded the markets under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP). Prince Niyi Akenzua, the Executive Director, Risk Management and Finance, Bank of Agriculture (BOA) disclosed on Thursday in ...
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USA
US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin lands in Israel
"We don't have a better partner in the region," Steven Mnuchin told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Senegal
Le projet "WISE" pour moderniser le secteur de la pêche artisanale
Dakar, 26 oct (APS) - Le projet "Wireless Solution" pour la pêche au Sénégal ou "WISE", lancé en 2014, est "conçu" et "réalisée" pour améliorer l'avantage concurrentiel des pêcheurs artisanaux et des transformateurs de produits halieutiques, a indiqué, jeudi à Dakar, Gallo Sow, conseiller technique numéro 1 du ministère de ...
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Senegal
La Maison de la presse et l'OCI signent un accord de partenariat
Dakar, 26 oct (APS) - La Maison de la presse du Sénégal a signé une ''convention de mutualisation'' avec le Comité permanent pour l'information et les affaires culturelles (COMNIAC) de l'Organisation de la coopération islamique (OCI), en vue d'une meilleure ''vulgarisation'' des activités des deux parties, a constaté l'APS, jeudi, ...
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India USA Indonesia Etiopia Nigeria Pakistan
Measles continues to kill 90,000 people annually despite global decline
Source: World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UN Children's Fund, GAVI Alliance Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, World20.8 million children are still missing their first measles vaccine dose. More than half of them live in Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ethiopia, and DR ...
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Uruguay Nigeria
La ONU lanza plan para proteger a las personas defensoras de derechos humanos en América Latina
Source: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Government of Uruguay, UN Human Rights Council Country: Brazil, Honduras, WorldDos tercios de los homicidios contra defensores de los derechos humanos se efectúan en América Latina. Frente a esta realidad, se presentó el plan de acciones conjuntas para la protección de las personas defensoras de ...
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USA
Stores are being hit by online retailing
WHEN AMERICA’S RETAIL bosses gathered in New York earlier this year for the annual shindig of their trade association, the National Retail Federation, there was much talk about new technology to improve the industry’s prospects, from sensors that read consumers’ facial expressions to machine-learning software that can optimise prices. The ...
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Cina USA
Online retail is booming in China
ON AN AVERAGE morning a young urban professional anywhere in the world might wake up, check her social-media feed and order a cab on her mobile. While sitting in traffic, she might use her phone to purchase groceries and watch a video, and later to pay the driver and buy ...
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Cina USA
E-commerce takes off
IN WAREHOUSES AROUND the globe, they wait: toys, phones, dresses, televisions, blankets, trainers, laptops and much more. In China, online retailers are gearing up for “Singles Day”, November 11th, the world’s busiest shopping day. Last year Alibaba, much the biggest of the country’s e-commerce giants, rang up sales of $18bn ...
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USA
The mighty Amazon
Amazon’s spheres of influence FOR SHOPPERS IN 2017, it can be hard to remember what life was like in the early 1990s. There was mail order, but by and large if you wanted to buy something you went to a shop. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, who was then working for a ...