BEIJING – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is set to launch a U.S. e-commerce website through its subsidiaries Vendio and Auctiva, which are in turn part of...
GENEVA – Six months after the process of expelling “undocumented migrants” started in Tanzania, IOM continues to receive returnees in Burundi, although at a small scale....
ADDIS ABABA – The special meeting of the Permanent Secretaries of Ministries of Agriculture and Local Government and Development Working Group Leaders on the Comprehensive Africa...
BENIN – Edo State House of Assembly gave nod to the state government to make provision of the sum of $33.370.589.54million supplementary appropriation for the contribution...
NAIROBI – The Rockefeller Foundation and the Tony Elumelu Foundation have announced the winners of the Africa Impact Economy Innovations Fund (IEIF). Launched in April 2013...
BERLIN – Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) agreed to acquire full ownership of its Czech unit, betting on a recovery in eastern European telecommunications, a market that...
SEATTLE/NORTH CHARLESTON – A 787 that rolled out of Boeing’s factory in Everett, Washington, in January was hailed as an important milestone: the first Dreamliner built...
LONDON – Crude-oil prices were up Tuesday, with U.S. benchmark WTI holding above $100 a barrel and with the Federal Reserve meeting later firmly in focus....
JOHANNESBURG – McDonald’s Corp. is looking at potential new markets in Nigeria and the rest of Africa after the world’s largest restaurant chain entered a new...
LAGOS – The continued dwindling of the fiscal buffers- foreign reserves, excess crude account, (ECA) against the backdrop of rising and stable oil prices at the...
