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Concerns over slow implementation of the power-sharing deal that led to the formation of the unity government is preventing Britain from pouring more aid into the country, the UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mark Canning said last week.
President Kibaki has asked the Bretton Woods institutions to increase their support to Kenya to help fight unemployment among other issues.
SOUTH Africa-based investment firm, African Global Capital, believes now is the time to invest in the local mining industry to avoid losing opportunities to suitors also eyeing the sector.
Mrs Nkechi Obi is the Managing Director, Techno Oil Limited, a significant player in the downstream sector of the oil industry. In this interview with Vanguard's Yemie Adeoye she speaks on infrastructural challenges and prospects of full deregulation in the downstream sub_sector of the petroleum industry.
International aid agency Oxfam today (22 October 2009) called for a radical shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk reaction” to food crises which is dominated by sending food aid. While the agency recognised that sending food aid does save lives, the dominance of this approach fails to ...
Regional economies will continue to see a shift towards information based activity as the telecoms sector drives economic growth in the future, a survey of senior executives has found.
The local property market has not been hit by the world economic recession. This is according to the newly elected president of the Real Estate Institute of Botswana (REIB), Outule Bale.
Chevron Nigeria Plc has recorded a significant improvement in its financials, posting a 317 per cent increase in its bottom line for the third quarter financial performance.
UMBRELLA body for senior staff Associations in the country, the Trade Union Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), has given some essential tips perceived to be paramount for a successful deregulation of the nation's downstream sector of the petroleum industry.
Minister of Trade and Industry, Hon Hannah Tetteh, has urged all stakeholders to ponder on how collectively they can move small and medium enterprise (SME) sector of the economy forward in the right direction.
European private investors are hungry for shares in unlisted African firms and could provide the needed shot in the arm for a continent that has taken a beating from the financial crisis the West is emerging from, reports LEE MWITIT
The Common Market Protocol in the East African Community (EAC) is now a reality. Heads of partner states signed it on Friday in Tanzania amid renewed commitment to quicken the proposed political federation by 2015.
East African Community Treaty would be reviewed to accommodate the Common Market Protocol signed by the regional leaders in Arusha yesterday.
East African Community (EAC) leaders yesterday formally agreed to allow free trade, movement of people and right of residence in the region, with the signing of the protocol establishing a common market.
Donors are demanding that the government checks the increasing HIV/Aids infections, which are expected to hit 200,000 by the end of 2009 if they are to release more funds.
INCREASING numbers of Ugandans watch South African TV, enjoy South African music and radio, eat South African food and are kept connected with their families through the Ugandan subsidiary of South Africa's telecom gaint MTN.
Opec's president Jose Botelho de Vasconcelos said today the group sees global oil demand growing to 106 million barrels per day in the period from last year to 2030, up 20 million barrels.
British American Tobacco (BAT-Rwanda) Thursday remitted a cheque of Rwf 4 million as part of the company's contribution to the 'One Dollar' campaign provide support for orphans of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis.
A high level delegation of investors from Europe which has been in the country on a fact-finding mission said on Friday that Rwanda, has a 'terrifically attractive investment climate' that is capable of attracting huge foreign capital.
The government on Friday said the escalating food prices in the country is attributed to an increase in food exports to the neighbouring countries.
The European Commission has signed a multi-million euro agreement to assist Nigeria tackle development challenges in the areas of governance, trade and peace.
THE five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) have signed a landmark agreement for a common market which allows free movement of people, goods, labour and capital across the member countries.
Ghana plans to boost its agriculture sector in 2010 by increasing investments to support local production.
Integration and co-operation between transit neighbours have been highlighted as factors that could strengthen trade competitiveness of Landlocked Developing Countries in times of the global economic crisis.
RESIDENTS of Kawaala-Kasubi, in Rubaga Division have a reason to smile after a new health centre was opened there on Wednesday.
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