Across sub-Saharan Africa, digital technologies are driving change—from kids learning to code outside Niger’s capital, to drones delivering medicines to remote communities in Sierra Leone. This is all helping to build resilience.
In the latest analytical chapter for the Regional Economic Outlook for sub-Saharan Africa,the IMF’s African department* examines how...
Dubai to open for tourists from 7 July, Emirates launches destination Dubai ad
New protocols to open travel for UAE citizens, residents and international visitors, with clear measures to protect the health and safety of communities
Emirates has welcomed the latest air travel protocols that will facilitate international travel...
The Association of Ghanaian Advanced Practice Nurses Abroad (AGAPNA), in the United States of America donated medical equipment and devices to the Mankoadze Community Health Programme and Services (CHPS) compound in the Central region.
The items which included bottles of hand sanitizers, boxes of KN 95 and N95 masks, surgical...
Although subdued as a result of Covid-19, demand for battery metals, including cobalt, lithium and copper, will remain strong as a result of growth in the global electric vehicles (EVs) market, business intelligence company CRU UK cobalt, lithium and battery markets senior analyst George Heppel.
Speaking during a virtual DRC Mining...
Oil prices slid on Monday as concern grew that a record rise in coronavirus infections worldwide could stall a recovery in fuel demand, outweighing tighter supplies from major producers.
Brent crude LCOc1 fell 10 cents, or 0.2%, to $42.04 a barrel by 0655 GMT, while U.S. crude CLc1 was at...
Oil producing nations with a high average fiscal break-even, but also oil traders have been caught off guard by the plunge in oil prices this Spring.
Oil nations are forced to diversify faster or face the consequences.
The world’s largest oil trader has seen its first-quarter net profit...
Retrogressive teams are usually characterized by a lack in MOI, which is an acronym for Motivation, Organization and Information.
A lack of energy and drive can be detrimental to teams right after formation, considering that motivation is spawned in stages, team leaders should invest time and effort into keeping energy...
Across Africa the news that a former colonial power, the UK, is to take a more strategic, political, hard-nosed approach to the way it spends its overseas aid budget, has been greeted with a mixture of frustration and cynicism.
In announcing a merger between the Foreign Office (FCO) and the...
It is an undeniable fact that the current COVID-19 pandemic has produced retrogressive effects on all spheres of economic endeavors. Like the celebrated American Judge Benjamin Cardozo stated “danger invites rescue”. The cry of distress is the summons to relief and a burden has been placed on all policymakers...