Turmoil as tobacco prices fluctuate in Malawi Mail Guardian South Africa Malawi's tobacco industry has been in turmoil after wildly fluctuating prices led protesting farmers to force the closure of the auction floors. This year's tobacco sales started on a very high note with prices reaching the phenomenal price of $11 per kilogram. The high prices did not last, however....
African bank warns of food instability Business Day MAPUTO - The African Development Bank, which helps fund infrastructure projects, opened its annual meeting yesterday with warnings that record food prices may undermine economic growth and stability in the world's poorest continent. | "Where there is hunger, there can be no peace," Denis Sassou-Ngue...
Edo Budgets N80m for Bursary Awards All Africa DEPUTY Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Imasuen, said yesterday that the state government has set aside the sum of N80million for disbursement of bursary to the state indigenes in tertiary institutions across the nation. | ...
Outages Generate Profit for Austro All Africa POWER outages and demand for alternative power supplies have driven up generator sales and the financial performance of generator rental and supply group Austro, the company said yesterday. | ...
Spar to Grow As Country Tightens Belt All Africa FOOD retailer Spar is focusing on growing organically, bolstering offerings and improving efficiencies as consumers tighten their belts. | ...
Emerging Markets Save Day for Didata, Datatec All Africa A COUPLE of years ago, Dimension Data and Datatec would have liked their US operations to be larger. It was, after all, the centre of the IT universe. | ...
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GLOBAL: Export controls curtail aid for hungry neighbours IRINnews web | Photo: Abdullah Shaheen/IRIN JOHANNESBURG, - Government attempts to control food supplies to ensure that their people have enough to eat are hampering efforts by the World Fo...
BA to move its additional flights to T5 in June TravelDailyNews | BAA and British Airways confirmed that the first phase of the move of additional flights into Heathrow Terminal 5 will take place in June. Services to and from eight long-haul de...
SAA to expand, upgrade fleet as fuel price soars Business Day SOUTH African Airways (SAA) would expand and modernise its aircraft fleet over the next few years as it expanded its network and attempted to cap soaring fuel costs. | The state-ow...
Turmoil as tobacco prices fluctuate in Malawi Mail Guardian South Africa Malawi's tobacco industry has been in turmoil after wildly fluctuating prices led protesting farmers to force the closure of the auction floors. This year's tobacco sales started on a very high note with prices reaching the phenomenal price of $11 pe...
Simply Asia to Expand Nationally All Africa FRANCHISE group Simply Asia said last week it aimed to have a national presence by 2010, with outlets in all of the major shopping centres, and will grow its footprint by 12 stores this year. | ...
Strong Showing By Didata Gives Share 3,6 Percent Lift All Africa A STRONG half-year performance by Dimension Data has beaten the expectations of market analysts, triggering a 5,4% rise in its share price to 795c as buyers reacted with enthusiasm. | ...
African bank warns of food instability Business Day MAPUTO - The African Development Bank, which helps fund infrastructure projects, opened its annual meeting yesterday with warnings that record food prices may undermine economic growth and stability in the world's poorest continent. | "Where there is hunger, there can be no peace," Denis Sassou-Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo, said at t...
