Business Libya oil company chief appeals for state investment Tripoli – The powerful head of Libya’s National Oil Corporation on Wednesday decried a lack of state investment in the... Read more 20 Jan, 2022
Business US tycoon opens Africa’s first start-to-finish Covid-19 jab plant Cape Town – US biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday opened a plant in Cape Town that will be... Read more 20 Jan, 2022
Business WATCH | ‘We aren’t fighting against fellow Africans,’ says Julius Malema as he visits restaurants to check employment ratios Cape Town – Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema on Wednesday visited restaurants in Midrand, Gauteng to check... Read more 19 Jan, 2022
Business Sanctioned Mali to start flights to Guinea Bamako – Sky Mali will on Saturday launch flights from Bamako to Conakry, the private airline company has said as... Read more 19 Jan, 2022
Business Uganda acts to ease border gridlock that triggered fuel crisis Kampala – Uganda announced on Tuesday it was suspending mandatory Covid testing at the border with Kenya after the... Read more 18 Jan, 2022
Business US sanctions on Zimbabwe’s elite ricochet across economy Harare – Callisto Jokonya stands in the cavernous factory of Imperial Refrigeration and recalls the halcyon days. In the... Read more 18 Jan, 2022
Business Mali sanctions imposed with ‘greatest reluctance’, Ivory Coast leader says Libreville – Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Monday that West African nations had imposed stinging sanctions on Mali... Read more 18 Jan, 2022
Business Uganda hit by fuel shortage as trucks stuck in tailbacks Kampala – Ugandans were struggling on Monday with a fuel shortage that has sent prices skyrocketing, as hundreds of trucks... Read more 18 Jan, 2022
Business Economist arrested in Mali for ‘subversive remarks’, his lawyer says Bamako – A leading Malian economist has been arrested in Bamako, taken to a police station and questioned about “subversive and... Read more 17 Jan, 2022
Business SA faces more load shedding as Eskom set to take Koeberg Power Station units offline Cape Town – Eskom says after more than 450 days of uninterrupted operation, Unit 2 of the Koeberg Nuclear... Read more 17 Jan, 2022