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| Name: | AllAfrica News: Economy, Business and Finance |
| Description: | All Africa, All the Time. |
| Site URL: | http://allafrica.com/business/ |
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| Syndic8 ID: | 8131 |
| Language: | en |
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25 most recent entries:
Eritrea: Minister Holds Discussion With Australian Mining Companies And Investors (Sep 06 2008 09:57 GMT)
Mr. Tesfai Gebreselassie, Minister of Energy and Mines, who is currently in Australia on a working visit, held discussion with mining companies and investors in the country on the available mining opportunities and prospects in Eritrea, especially in the mining sector.
Uganda: Kanungu Gets Prepaid Power (Sep 06 2008 09:38 GMT)
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni on Thursday commissioned prepaid electricity in Kanungu as he concludes his four-day tour of the district.
Uganda: Two Die in Quarry (Sep 06 2008 09:38 GMT)
TWO people died on Wednesday after they were trapped in a quarry in Lukonge, Wakiso district.
Uganda: Ban Those Boda Bodas (Sep 06 2008 09:38 GMT)
Looking back to the time they had just come, killing the monopoly of special hires and taxis, they were welcome to this city. We received them with wide open hands. If you had an appointment and needed to be there in less than 10 minutes, they would be the solution. They are Boda bodas also known as bodas.
Uganda: Hoima's Oil Riches (Sep 06 2008 09:38 GMT)
WHEN oil was discovered in Hoima district, the Government started planning for an 'Oil City'. The district local government was directed to urgently identify land near the oil drilling sites for the city. This was two years ago
Uganda: Man Netted With Fake Dollars, Congolese Money (Sep 06 2008 09:14 GMT)
Police in Busia are holding a 40-year-old Congolese national for being in possession of counterfeit US dollars and fake Congolese currency.
Uganda: NSSF Deal - Throwing Baby With Bath Water (Sep 06 2008 09:14 GMT)
The public lynching of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) officials over the purchase of land in Temangalo, should be the argument for an immediate and urgent liberalisation of the social security sector.
Africa: UN-Backed Carbon Forum Helps Continent Profit From Greenhouse Gas Offset Scheme (Sep 06 2008 08:29 GMT)
Three days of deal-making and networking wrapped up today at the United Nations-backed Africa Carbon Forum in Senegal, aimed at improving the continent's standing in the global carbon marketplace.
Africa: Can Carbon Trading Spur Growth? (Sep 06 2008 08:28 GMT)
Hundreds attending the first all-African carbon forum agreed entrepreneurs in Africa need cash to break into the expanding international carbon emissions trading market.
Nigeria: National Assembly - Reps And Unfinished Business (Sep 06 2008 08:01 GMT)
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the House of Representatives will resume plenary Tuesday next week to be faced with a number of unfinished businesses, chief of which are the reconstitution of its dissolved standing committees, what to do with the power probe report and the continuation of theprobe of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), its subsidiaries and the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).
Nigeria: High Cement Cost is Global, Says FG (Sep 06 2008 07:58 GMT)
THE Federal Government yesterday blamed the upsurge of cement prices on what it described as global phenomenon, just as it said Nigeria was not alone in the high cost of cement prices.
Nigeria: Agoro Wants Yar'Adua to Imitate Gaddafi On Oil Windfall (Sep 06 2008 07:58 GMT)
DR. Olapade Agoro, the National Chairman, Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has called on president Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to imitate his fellow man, Colonel Muhamah Gaddafi of Libya by making life comfortable for Nigerians to live.
Nigeria: A Global Village (Sep 06 2008 07:58 GMT)
For someone who has always enjoyed a good press, recent weeks must have brought unthinkable anguish to the roly-poly Stock Exchange boss, a lady who seemed to be in full control of her lot. From the peak of respectability, she plummeted almost to the depths of public opprobrium.
Nigeria: Beechcraft Plane Crash - Weather Disrupts Search for Black Boxes (Sep 06 2008 07:58 GMT)
Logistic problems yesterday disrupted the continued search for the black boxes of the missing Beechcraft 1900D plane which crashed at Busi village, Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State.
Nigeria: AFAC - Crafts Empowering People (Sep 06 2008 07:52 GMT)
To promote the Nigerian Arts and Crafts sector in line with the seven point agenda of the Federal Government, the National Council for Arts and Culture, under the leadership of Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, Minister for Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, organised the first African Arts and Crafts Expo (AFAC) in Abuja.
Nigeria: Cyber Crime - Time to Stop County's Dominance (Sep 06 2008 07:52 GMT)
Nigeria ranks third among the cyber crime committing countries in the world, according to a 2007 internet crime report released by the Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3), which puts the country alongside the US, UK and Romania among the top ten countries where internet crimes are perpetrated.
Nigeria: Yahoo Boys With Bankers' Help Return in Full Force (Sep 06 2008 07:52 GMT)
In Lagos, many of the so-called yahoo boys now do their 'yahoo yahoo' activities in the comfort of their homes, courtesy of internet services being offered by the fixed telephone operators in the country. Others go into partnerships of a sort with dubious cyber cafe operators and bank officials to carry out their nefarious activities in the full glare of the EFCC's bold message in its poster which reads:'Stop Cyber Crime, EFCC is watching You.'
Congo-Kinshasa: Air Crash At Bukavu (Sep 06 2008 07:25 GMT)
An aircraft under contract to Air Serv International in the Democratic Republic of Congo, en route from Kisangani to Bukavu, failed to land and crashed about 15 kms away from Kavumu airport on 1 September 2008 at about 5:00 pm local time.
Kenya: From UK Loaded With Wads of Notes to Invest (Sep 06 2008 07:18 GMT)
It is Sunday afternoon and everything seems slow in Nairobi despite the increased human traffic ahead of the reopening of schools the following day.
Kenya: New Health Tax Shocker On the Way (Sep 06 2008 07:18 GMT)
Working Kenyans will soon have to pay medical bills for the unemployed, if a new plan to help the poor access health care is adopted by the Government.
Kenya: Standards Agency to Back Consumers (Sep 06 2008 07:18 GMT)
Kenya Bureau of Standards has pledged to support consumers' rights protection organisations by providing free training.
Kenya: Team Set Up to Monitor Sugar Imports (Sep 06 2008 07:17 GMT)
The Government has struck at the heart of beneficiaries of cheap sugar imports after setting up a committee to monitor the flow of the commodity into the country from the Comesa region.
Ghana: Mining Companies Accused of Human Rights Abuse (Sep 05 2008 17:07 GMT)
Mining companies have been accused of human rights abuse in communities of their operation, according to a report released by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Ghana.
Ghana: Factory for Each District Under Prez Akufo-Addo (Sep 05 2008 16:12 GMT)
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has promised to make Ghana an industrialized country, with the establishment of, at least, a factory in each district of the country.
Namibia: Conservation Could be Engine For Growth (Sep 05 2008 15:55 GMT)
TOP business personalities and conservation experts from 26 countries are gathering in Namibia this weekend to discuss links between business expertise and environmental projects in Africa to unlock the potential of protected areas for socio-economic development.
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