ABIDJAN – Ecobank Transnational Inc. (ETI), the most geographically diverse lender in Africa, said it will probably seek banking licences in two more Portuguese-speaking countries on...
AMSTERDAM/FRANKFURT – Philips, Samsung Electronics and Media-Saturn, Europe’s largest chain of consumer electronics stores, said on Friday they were among companies visited by European Commission officers...
DUBAI – Energy ministers from Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agreed this week to keep the group’s target for crude output unchanged at 30 million...
ROME – “We have lost one of the world’s passionate defenders of the right to food,” said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, on learning of...
SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it had disrupted the largest network of compromised personal computers, involving some 2 million machines around the world,...
ABUJA – The Nigerian economy is losing a whopping N730 billion to cases of poor telecoms quality of services delivered by telecoms services providers in the...
BEIJING – A $6.4 billion gas project being built by Chevron CVN.X in China is facing further delays due to disagreements with partner PetroChina (0857.HK) over...
FRANKFURT – Germany’s Bundesbank raised its forecast for growth of the euro zone’s largest economy this year and next on Friday, highlighting the increasing divergence between...
BRUSSELS – As the political and humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) has progressively deteriorated for more than a year now, the European Commission...
GENEVA – Calling Nelson Mandela a leader with hard-won wisdom and maturity unparalleled in our time, the World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary gave thanks...