Critical Minerals Africa (CMA) to Host Investment Forum Showcasing Opportunities in African Critical Minerals
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Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Others Make a List Of Top 10 African Countries With Highest IMF Debts
Views: 6 The International Monetary Fund (IMF), has identified some African countries with the highest indebtedness to the global financial institution. The list of countries with the highest indebtedness was unveiled in a recent report by the IMF, which identified countries of the world including African countries with the highest outstanding IMF credit as of
Japan officially imposes sanctions on Israeli settlers for violence against Palestinians in the West Bank
Views: 13 NIPPON Tokyo, July 23 (Jiji Press)–The Japanese government said Tuesday that it has frozen the assets of four Israeli settlers in West Bank for their involvement in attacks on Palestinians. This marks Tokyo’s first sanctions on Israeli settlers, according to the Foreign Ministry. There has been a surge in acts of violence by
China surprises markets with unexpected interest rate cuts
Views: 2 AA China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBC), unexpectedly decided to lower its interest rates by 10 basis points on Monday. The one-year loan prime rate (LPR) dropped to 3.35%, and the over-five-year LPR decreased to 3.85%. The bank had kept the one-year rate at 3.45% since August 2023 and the
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Russia thanks Western sanctions for helping it avoid the CrowdStrike IT outage
Views: 8 BUSINESS INSIDER Airlines, banks, supermarkets, media outlets, and more were affected by the outage, which experts say was one of the largest in history. While the issue caused hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers to crash, one country was unaffected: Russia. Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media said Friday that airlines
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Meta to appeal FCCPC’s $220 million fine_ WhatsApp says
Views: 2 NAIRA METRICS WhatsApp announced that its parent company, Meta, will be appealing the $220 million fine imposed by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) for violating Nigeria’s data privacy laws. This statement was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. The reaction follows a statement
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Global Outage forces Elon Musk to Ban Crowdstrike
Views: 6 THE TECH BASIC Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla and SpaceX, had Crowdstrike’s software removed from his companies’ systems. He announced this decision on his platform X. The move follows a catastrophic global outage caused by a problematic update from the cybersecurity company, which crashed computer systems around the world. Musk’s statement on
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Russia hikes import tariffs for consumer goods from ‘unfriendly countries’
Views: 2 ASIA ONE MOSCOW – Russia increased imports tariffs for consumer goods, including wine, beer, candies, biscuits and shampoo, produced in countries that support sanctions against Moscow, according to a government order published late on Friday (July 19). Russian imports from nations that imposed sanctions against Moscow over its military conflict with Ukraine slumped
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JUST IN: Two dead as a truck and a bakkie collided and burnt between Swakopmund and Arandis
Views: 10 Namibia: Two drivers, who were sole occupants of a truck and a bakkie, respectively, burned beyond recognition when their vehicles collided head-on between Swakopmund and Arandis at around 00:10 this morning. The bakkie driver was identified as a 38-year-old male Chinese national employed as a site manager for Beifang mining company. The truck
JUST IN; Air India Boeing plane bound for San Francisco makes unscheduled landing in Russia
Views: 4 An Air India plane flying from Delhi to San Francisco made a precautionary landing in the Russian region of Siberia after crew detected a potential issue in the cargo hold area, the Indian airline said on Friday. It was the second time in a little over a year that an Air India flight