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DEPUTY Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara yesterday openly differed with President Robert Mugabe on fundamental issues at the inaugural two-day Zimbabwe Investment Conference in the capital in an apparent show of discord in the unity government.
More than 400 people, including delegates from several Western countries, yesterday attended the official opening of the Zimbabwe International Investment Conference in Harare as the country continues with its drive to engage the international community in its economic turnaround programme.
New royalty rates payable on minerals other than precious and dimension stones will benefit the Namibian people, as these will result in citizens receiving an equitable share from the country's resources, says Joseph Iita, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
POLITICIANS have an uncanny propensity for opening their mouths and putting both feet in them. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, called this sort of thing dontopedology. And he should know!
NIGERIAN banks are on the verge of snapping significant shareholding in local banks through deals being facilitated by Pivot Financial Services.
XSTRATA's effort to merge with Anglo American is still, in my view, a nonstarter. As you would have read in colleague Charlotte Mathews's story in Wednesday's Business Day, Xstrata's board disagrees and the company is spending a lot of money and management time to keep the proposal alive and well.
INVESTORS should capitalise on Zimbabwe's strategic position as the economic hub of Southern Africa and explore existing business opportunities, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has said.
Uganda leads other East African Partner states in enabling both international trade and investments, according to the 2009 Enabling Trade Index a global ranking carried out by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
BANGLADESHI industrialist Aziz Mohammad Bhai is in the country to explore investment opportunities.
THE business confidence of both small and large managers bounced back in the second quarter of the year due largely to improved profits and the resumption of net inflows.
MUMBAI-based Aegis has bought out the privately owned call centre operator CCN as part of its grand plan to create 5000 new jobs and invest R500m in SA over the next three years.
IN WHAT must be the most ambitious hotel project yet in SA, investment group Dubai World plans to berth the ageing QE2 passenger ship permanently at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront and convert it into a luxury hotel.
A TASK team appointed to help save Seardel 's textile division, the Frame Group, is negotiating with an Asian foreign investor to buy some or all of the assets earmarked for closure in order to keep them operational in SA.
Initially, the Rwandan coffee sector focused on quantity rather than quality. Yet in the early 2000s, a new strategy for the sector was introduced which led to a boom in coffee washing stations being built to improve the quality and add value to the coffee. Moreover, farmers switched to varieties that were more appropriate for the so-called "specialty coffee" market.
The United Nations and the African Union today launched a new tool, designed in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation, to help map investment flows on the continent and provide business leaders the information they need to make sound decisions.
A two day international investment conference opened in Harare on Thursday, where the three political leaders to the Global Political Agreement sought to promote the country as an investment destination.
A newly published report by the UN environmental agency underscores how environmental investments can get the global and national economies back to sustainable work.
The principal director in the Ministry of Economic Planning has told our correspondent he will not be allowed to cover the International Investment conference in Harare that begins Thursday, because he is not accredited with the legally defunct Media Information Commission (MIC).
The East African Community (EAC), which now has a total population of 127 million people and thus constitutes a viable market for major investment, recently undertook a first joint commercial mission to Canada to woo local entrepreneurs as well as the East African Diaspora to invest in the region.
In the World Bank's annual Doing Business report, which assesses the investment climate in countries worldwide, setting up a business is the first indicator. However, before the new company law came into power, Rwanda was using the 1988 company act which made company registration a cumbersome process taking at least 16 days.
University lecturer Hermenegildo Mateus Mille Bento on Wednesday in Luanda, in an interview to ANGOP, said that Angola's participation in the G8 Summit might attract more foreign investment.
UNKNOWN investors have fenced off what remains of Kololo SSS sports ground despite protests from the schools officials.
In the last few days, small-scale farmers in Nigeria and other parts of the continent attempted to set the agenda, or better still, influence the agenda of heads of state and government who met in Sirte, the birth place of current AU chairman and president of Libya, Muammar Gaddaffi from June 30 to July 3.
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Lamido Sanusi won strong approval from foreign investors when he used his first policy meeting to unveil a root-and-branch reform of the country's chaotic banking system.
Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS) has chosen Osun state as a pilot State to implement its ECOWAS -China Economic Partnership scheme.
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