The Gambian government has announced it had signed a new economic pact with Taiwan, arguably its closest ally on the Asian continent. The two reestablished ties in 1995 after Gambia severed relations with China, Taiwan’s belligerent neighbor. A statement issued by the Ministry of Economic Planning and Industrial Development in Gambia said Wednesday that the [...]

South African local organising committee has managed to deliver a World Class tournament on time. Today June 16 FIFA announces the Committee of the City of São Paulo did not deliver to the Local Organizing Committee of the 2014 FIFA World Cup (LOC) the financial guarantees for the approved project presented in relation to the [...]

Zimbabwe’s Central Statistical Office (CSO) reported Tuesday that inflation surged to 6.1 percent year-on-year in May compared with 4.8 percent in April due to rising food prices and transport costs. The statistical agency which started calculating price increases in United States dollars last December said on a monthly basis, inflation rose to 0.3 percent from [...]

The Government of Nigeria has reiterated its resolve to deal with any illegal miner who engages in the act without government’s approval. The minister of state in the federal ministry of health, Suleiman Bello said this in Bukkuyum over the weekend while inspecting the villages affected by lead poisoning in the state. He said the [...]

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the release of 15,000 tones of assorted grains to Niger and Chad to mitigate the effect of the reported food crisis in the two countries. A source at the federal ministry of agriculture told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) yesterday in Abuja that the federal government was concerned [...]