Accra, Ghana, November 7, 2018//-The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has launched the Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX), a platform for buying and selling listed agricultural commodities.
Category: Economy
What European Regional Airports Need to Know About China
November 7, 2018//-China is now the single largest source of outbound tourists in the world.
Employees in Nairobi Rank Affordable Housing as the Most Important Factor When Deciding Where to Live and Work
Nairobi, Kenya, 7 November 2018//-Mercer, a global consulting leader in advancing health, wealth and career, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc today announced the results of an extensive study that examines the needs of workers in the world’s fastest-growing cities across four key factors – human, health, money and work.
Can the Centre Hold, or Will South Africa Get its Own Bolsonaro?
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa faces the daunting task of fighting corruption and winning votes for his party. GCIS Roger Southall, University of the Witwatersrand Present indications are that South African voters are not gearing up to “do a Brazil” in the face of a mounting economic crisis and high levels of corruption within the […]
World Leaders Pledge $1 Billion to Transform Health and Nutrition of World’s Poorest Women, Others
Oslo, Norway, November 6, 2018// – The Global Financing Facility (GFF) in Support of Every Woman Every Child today announced US$1.005 billion in contributions from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Burkina Faso, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire, the European Commission, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Laerdal Global Health, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar and the United Kingdom.
Nissan Coming to Build Assembly Plant in Ghana
Accra, Ghana, November 6, 2018//-Nissan, a Japanese global automaker today announced its readiness to set up of an assembly plant in Ghana.
Openness and Ease of Doing Business: U.S. and China
(State Dept.) The United States and China are the two largest economies and largest traders and among the top destinations for foreign investment in the world.
How We Arrived at a $1 Billion Annual Price Tag to Save Africa’s Lions
There’s a need to secure Africa’s 282 massive “lionscapes”. Shutterstock Luke Hunter, University of KwaZulu-Natal A billion dollars. That’s approximately what it would cost, to save the African lion. That’s a billion dollars each year, every year into the foreseeable future. The startling price tag comes from a calculation we did, starting with a new […]
South African Airways Gets $343 Million Gov’t Bailout
November 6, 2018//-South African Airways (SAA) has received $343 million from the government to pay off some of its debts and for capitalisation.
Dubai Sues China’s Merchants Port
Nairobi, Kenya, November 5, 2018//-United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) DP World Limited and its subsidiaries has taken legal action against China for building an international free zone on a terminal being disputed with Djibouti.