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Kenya
Kenya: Ban on plastic bags starts
All licences issued to the manufacture of plastic bags will be cancelled and action taken against those who circumvent the law.
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Kenya
Nairobi: Chris Kirubi dismisses Sonko's job offer as economic advisor
Business tycoon Chris Kirubi has told off Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko over an offer to join his team of advisors.
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Kenya
Business News: Government in plans to set up agency to market business tourism
Kenya is looking to intensify tourism product diversification with the planned setting up of an entity specifically tasked with marketing the country as a business and conference tourism destination.
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USA
Moon Jae-in Promises to Collect More Taxes from the Rich
Moon Jae-in, presidential candidate for the Minjoo Party, revealed a compilation of election pledges that include a plan to collect more taxes mostly from large corporations and high-income earners in order to finance increased needs for welfare outlays. For example, the tax bracket that would be subject to the highest ...
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Turchia USA
Shame on us on Children’s Day
Shall we start with the report from the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) titled “Being a Child Laborer in Turkey,” on the occasion of April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day?
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Turchia Francia
French Interior Ministry calls on citizens to vote in presidential election with Saltbae image
France’s Interior Ministry has called on citizens to cast their votes in the presidential election through the iconic image of social media phenomenon Nusret Gökçe, the co-partner of Turkey’s global Nusr-et chain of grill houses best known as “Saltbae”
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Nigeria
Nigeria possibly out of recession – Adesanya
The Managing Director, Degeconek Nig. Ltd., Mr Abiodun Adesanya, has said that it is possible for Nigeria to be out of recession, as the country’s economy is heading in the right direction. Adesanya made the assertion on Sunday in Lagos following claims by global economists that Nigeria is out of ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA arrests 51 suspects, seizes 1933.28kg drugs in Oyo
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Oyo state command, said it arrested 51 suspected drug traffickers and addicts from January to date. A statement by the state command’s Public Relations Officer, Mrs Mutiat Okuwobi, on Sunday in Ibadan, disclosed that 1,933.28 kg of drugs were also seized during the period. ...
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Marocco Algeria Libano
Diaspora algérienne : A peine 2 milliards de dollars transférés en 2016
Les envois de fonds par la diaspora vers l’Algérie restent minimes par rapport à la contribution des communautés maghrébines et, plus globalement, celle de la région Afrique et Moyen-Orient (MENA), selon le dernier bilan de la Banque mondiale, cité par l’APS. Ainsi les envois de fonds vers l’Algérie, de la ...
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Francia
Flambée sur le marché de la devise
Les cours des devises sur le marché informel continuent de flamber, se maintenant à des niveaux très élevés face à une monnaie locale faiblarde. Au square Port-Saïd d’Alger, l’un des principaux marchés parallèles de change du pays, les devises étrangères se négociaient à prix fort, que rien ne semble ébranler ...