On a typical workday, hundreds of thousands of men clad in overalls and carrying safety equipment and head lamps assemble at South Africa’s mine shafts. They crowd into cramped elevators to be lowered miles underground, where they hack at seams of gold or platinum and haul ore in intense...
165 past and present leaders say to G20: approve now US$8bn emergency global health funding to prevent second wave of coronavirus
Debt interest payments of poorest countries should be waived now; global fiscal coordination essential to avoid recession becoming depression
Warning that without rapid...
South Africa’s manufacturing output contracted by 1.3 percent year-on-year in March following a revised 0.5 percent expansion in February, the statistics agency said on Thursday.
Statistics South Africa said factory production on a month-on-month basis increased 1.3 percent in March, but shrunk by 1.7 percent in the three months to...
Moroccan national carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), has announced plans to launch flights to five other East African cities only two years after it began its Casablanca-Nairobi operations.
Country manager Othman Baba said the move, inspired by Nairobi experience, is part of RAM’s efforts to claw back a share of...
Ivory Coast will stop distributing hybrid seedlings and other advanced technologies that help cocoa farmers improve yields to cut overproduction that has weighed on cocoa prices, according to a letter by the regulator sent to exporters.
“We inform you of our decision to suspend the distribution of improved plant material...
The Russian Federation, has accessed the US Department of States report, on adherence to and compliance to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments, rejecting and describing it as not containing the truth and full of contradictions.
According to the federation, the report sort to project Russia as a...
Nigeria’s state oil company illegally paid 216 billion naira ($707.4 million) in fuel subsidies in 2017, according to a Senate probe, the findings of which were released on Thursday.
The investigation by the upper legislative house said that parliament had not approved those payments by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
Zambia’s annual inflation rate quickened to 7.4 percent in April from 7.1 percent a month earlier, official data showed on Thursday.
On a month-on-month basis, the rate slowed to 0.6 percent in April compared with 1.3 percent in March, data from the Central Statistical Office showed.
“The increase in the annual...
On the occasion of the 7th anniversary of creating the Pacific Alliance, representatives of Chile - Ricardo Alen; Colombia - Claudia Turbay Quintero; Mexico- Maria de los Angeles Arriola Aguirre; and Peru - Patricia Yolanda Ráez Portocarrero, came together to join in celebration of this important anniversary, which highlights...