AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government on Thursday canceled a trade mission to Saudi Arabia next month due to concerns over the disappearance of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a spokeswoman said. “All trade missions to the country have been suspended … Continued
Mohammed Ahmed Ismail, a currency exchanger, waits for clients in Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa. PHOTO | COURTESY On the dusty streets of Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa, Mohammed Ahmed Ismail is arranging paper money in his tidy, waiting for clients who wish to … Continued
Mogadishu (AFP) – An Ethiopian airline on Saturday made the first commercial flight between Addis Ababa and Mogadishu in 41 years, in yet another sign of warming ties between neighbouring Horn of Africa nations Ethiopia and Somalia. A plane from … Continued
A DHL-led pilot project to deliver medicines by parcel drone to remote areas in Kenya, East Africa, has completed more than 180 take-offs and landings. During a six month test period, the German logistics giant, together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit … Continued
BODO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell wants to reweight its footprint in Nigeria to focus on oil and gas fields far offshore, away from the theft, spills, corruption and unrest that have plagued the West African country’s onshore industry … Continued
Ethiopia currently heads the league for hotel development in East Africa, according to a regional focus from the influential annual hotel pipeline survey by Lagos-based W Hospitality Group. Details of the survey, which covers the whole of the African continent, … Continued
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, — The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved the Bank’s Policy on Non-sovereign Operations (NSO). The document provides the framework within which the Bank through its private sector lending window may provide … Continued
NAIROBI, Kenya, – Approximately 155 million mobile money transactions worth US$2.7 billion are conducted in Somalia every month, making it one of the most active mobile money markets in the world. According to a World Bank finding, mobile money has superseded … Continued
BY THILASONI BENJAMIN MUSUKU, World Bank The mobile money market is booming in Somalia. Approximately 155 million transactions, worth $2.7 billion or 36% of gross domestic product (GDP), are recorded every month. Mobile money accounts for a high proportion of money … Continued
BY KHARI JOHNSON, VB Facebook has used artificial intelligence to improve its machine translation models, allowing the social media giant to recognize and translate 24 new languages. The new language translation pairs include Serbian and Belarusian to English in Europe; … Continued
By Colm Gorey After the smash hit release of the film Black Panther – chronicling the defence of a hyper-advanced city in a fictional city-state called Wakanda by a superhero king – a smart city developer aims to help build something similar. … Continued
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The High Court of England & Wales has granted an injunction restraining Djibouti’s port company, Port de Djibouti S.A. (PDSA), from treating its joint venture shareholders’ agreement with global trade enabler DP World as terminated. … Continued
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