Kenyan Women Lead Rise of Airbnb Female Entrepreneurs
09/03/2017Home-renting site Airbnb is providing women with a new way to earn money and build businesses with more women than men on the site and women in Kenya gaining.
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UN: 17 Million People Face Hunger East Africa
09/03/2017By Mohammed Yusuf U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that East Africans are facing starvation and that the situation might worsen if nothing is done to.
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Egypt’s Feb Annual Urban Consumer Price Inflation Hits 30-Yr High
09/03/2017Egypt’s annual urban consumer price inflation soared to its highest level in more than three decades, hitting 30.2 percent in February, statistics agency CAPMAS said on Thursday..
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Mining Investment Asia Shines Spotlight on ‘Women in Mining’
08/03/2017Mining Investment Asia, South East Asia’s largest mining investment conference, supports International Women’s Day (8 March) – a global initiative celebrating the achievements of women and calling for action to.
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Somali Nationals Living in Kenya Worried About New US Travel Ban
08/03/2017By Jill Craig U.S. President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order Monday, calling for a 90-day suspension of admissions for people from six Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, Libya,.
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UN Chief Makes Surprise Visit to Somalia to Focus on Famine
08/03/2017By Harun Maruf U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Somalia needs “massive support” to prevent a repeat of the 2011 famine that killed 260,000 people. Guterres made a.
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Etisalat Nigeria seeks to renegotiate $1.2 bln loans
08/03/2017Etisalat’s Nigeria affiliate is in talks with local banks to renegotiate a $1.2 billion loans it took four years ago to expand its network in Africa’s biggest economy after it.
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Nigeria aims to have market-determined exchange rates: official document
08/03/2017Nigeria’s central bank aims to achieve a market-determined exchange rate regime, according to an official economic plan released on Tuesday, as pressure mounts to let the naira float freely. The.
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South Africa formally revokes international court withdrawal
08/03/2017By Michelle Nichols South Africa on Tuesday formally revoked its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court after its High Court blocked the government’s bid to pull.
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The Africa Energy & Infrastructure Summit – London 2017
08/03/2017Background and Introduction African Leadership magazine, in collaboration with the Centre for Economic & Leadership Development, is putting together the Africa Energy & Infrastructure Summit – London 2017 as.
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