Sep 11, 2015 The Euromoney Egypt Conference recently held in Cairo. The two day event, which was tagged “Financing the Future”, was the 20th installment of the annual financial summit. According to the conference’s website, the two day event focused on the role of investors in the country’s financial future. Speaking at the event’s opening, ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 South Koreans who were separated from their family members in the North by the Korean War recently welcomed an agreement reached by the two Korean governments to hold family reunions. The agreement came on the heels of a recent armed confrontation between the two Korean countries. The family reunion was necessitated after ... Read More
Sep 11, 2015 Japanese stocks recently took a dip, taking the benchmark Nikkei index into negative territory. This occurred after soft trade data out of China evoked concerns over the economic health of the Asian giant. Defensive shares such as drug makers and food companies were battered; a sharp reversal of their spectacular outperformance earlier ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 According to Libyan authorities, no less than 100 migrant, heading to Europe, were recently detained after arriving at the port of Tripoli. The migrants, who consisted of various nationalities, were apprehended as they prepared to make the dangerous sea-crossing to Europe in an inflatable dinghy. Ashram Badri, head of the Tripoli coast ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 During the 4th Annual Biosafety Conference, Kenya’s vice president William Ruto recently announced that within two months the ban on Genetically Modified Foods will be lifted. The announcement re-igniting debates over biosafety in a country where 75 percent of its population rely on agriculture for sustenance. Kenya had set up a biosafety ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 Ahead of the papal visit in late September, Fidel and Raul Castro have reconcile relations with the Church after declaring Cuba an atheist state. Baptized as Roman Catholics and educated by Jesuits, Fidel and Raul Castro turned against the Church after seizing power in the 1959 revolution. The Castro brothers went on ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 The International Paralympic Committee recently marked the one year countdown to the start of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with a two-day festival. The event, which was organized to get people into the spirit of the games, also marked the Brazilian Independence Day. The festival featured the official start ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 So, the 10th edition of Nigeria Entertainment Awards went down at the Skirball Center for Performing Arts in New York on Sunday with celebrated African entertainers carting away prestigious awards. Among them was Johnny singer Yemi Alade who emerged as the Best Female Act while Wizkid was Best Male Act. Kiss Daniel ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 And congratulations to Kenya’s two-time athletic world champion David Rudisha who is now a father as he welcomes his first child with his wife on Tuesday. David Rudisha who is still basking in the euphoria of his 800 meters win at the just concluded World Athletics Championships in Beijing took to his ... Read More
Sep 10, 2015 In the movie world, check out the official trailer of Uzodinma Iwela’s adapted novel “Beasts of No Nation”. Starring Sierra Leonean-British actor Idris Elba and young actor Abraham Attah, the Netflix original movie is expected to premiere on October 16. The movie adaptation, “Beasts of No Nation”, ... Read More
