• Etiopia

    Ethiopia establishes legal guidelines for contract farming

    The Agricultural Production and Marketing Contracts proclamation has been drafted by the Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) to improve relations between traders and producers and establish legal contract farming in the country. Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association (EHPEA) raised concerns during a recent meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office. According ...

  • Nigeria

    Nigeria: Kano Attracts $200 Million Foreign Investments in 2 Years

    [Leadership] Kano -Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, said yesterday that the state government under his watch has attracted $200 million foreign investments and expended over N3 billion in building shops to boost trade and business activities in the state in the last 2 years.

  • Kenya Etiopia

    Techno Brain Partners With Oracle

    [Addis Fortune] Techno Brain, one of the leading ICT Solutions providers, has partnered with Oracle, the second largest software making company in the world, since last week. This has helped Techno Brain to earn a Field Delivery Partner (FDP) status. Headquartered in Nairobi, Techno Brain has a presence in over ...

  • Etiopia

    The Less Rewarding Trend of Insurance Regulations in Ethiopia

    [Addis Fortune] In Ethiopia, the modern insurance business has no deep-rooted history like in most countries of the world. According to many historians and scholars, the emergence of the modern insurance industry traces back to the pioneer, the former Bank of Abyssinia, established by Emperor Menelik II in 1905. Thus, ...

  • Etiopia

    Govt Takes Plunge to Improve Traceability of Speciality Coffee Beans

    [Addis Fortune] Ethiopia, the world's fifth-largest coffee producer and home of Arabica, has overhauled the way it markets the commodity in an effort to increase export earnings and clamp down on a thriving domestic black market.

  • Malta

    Watch: PN unveils its environmental proposals

      Updated 12.41pm  A Nationalist government would draft a long-term plan stretching to 2050 for Malta’s environment, create a national agency to manage Malta’s protected parks and introduce parliamentary checks on the development of ODZ land, party leader Simon Busuttil said today. Speaking at a press conference held in Żonqor, where a campus ...

  • Malta

    Watch: Simon Busuttil says PN will make Malta centre of excellence for diabetes patients

    Malta will be made into a 'centre of excellence' for diabetes patients if the National Government is elected, Nationalist Party Leader Simon Busuttil announced today.  Dr Busuttil was speaking at a news conference at Mater Dei this morning, where he announced some of the Nationalist Party's health proposals in the ...

  • USA Malta

    Residents fear PA board could approve controversial Wied Moqbol quarry on 30 May

    A proposed new quarry in an Outside Development Zone in Wied Moqbol might be approved by the Planning Authority despite the fact that two judges have ruled against the development in two separate cases.The final chapter in a saga that has been ongoing for the last 17 years is scheduled ...

  • Panama Malta

    Analysis – Election roundup Day 21 – Malta’s reputation: cleaning up the mess

    Malta’s reputation on the international stage had its ups and downs in the last four years.The holding of the summit on migration which was followed up by the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in late 2015 were two feathers in this government’s cap.Both happened before the eruption of the Panama ...

  • Malta

    €1.2b EU funds, 'hardly used by Muscat', will help finance PN electoral programme – Busuttil

    Funds from the European Union amounting to approximately €1.2 billion that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has "hardly started to use" will be one of the sources financing PNs electoral program, according to Nationalist Party Leader Simon Busuttil.  Dr Busuttil was answering a question in a debate with journalists from different ...