China expands African footprint with inroads into Algeria Houston Chronicle | ALGIERS, Algeria - While still struggling with the aftermath of a decade-long Islamic insurgency, oil-rich yet impoverished Algeria is getting a makeover: a new airport, its first mall, its largest prison, 60,000 new homes, two luxury hotels and the longest continuous highway in Africa. | China is...
Private Equity Rebound Mooted in Sub-Sahara All Africa PRIVATE equity in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to make a strong comeback next year, according to a new study released by KPMG yesterday. | ...
Al-Qaida growing in strength and numbers in Africa The Examiner Comments WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Al-Qaida's terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting new recruits, threatening to further destabilize the continent's already vulnerable Sahara region, according to U.S. defense and counter...
Extreme philanthropy National Post  By Mary Vallis, National PostFebruary 27, 2010  | Brian Jones has scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, walked across the Sahara Desert and skied to the North Pole, all to raise money for needy groups in Fredericton. But this winter, he simply pulled on som...
Sahara City Homes gets IMS certificate The Hindu | NEW DELHI: Sahara City Homes got IMS (Integrated Management System) certification for its Lucknow, Nagpur and Indore townships. The company has a vision to build integrated townships across across 217 cities. The current business plan of the compan...
Robbing Peter to buy Paul a salad National Post  By Tasha Kheiriddin, National PostFebruary 23, 2010 12:00 AM    Michelle Obama tours a Philadelphia supermarket last Friday, as part of her Let's Move campaign. | Photograph by: Saul Loeb, AFP, Getty Images, National Post | I never thought I'...
IMF: SA has the best social payments in sub-Saharan Africa Business Report | Submit your comment | The figures may show that social grant expenditure estimated at R89 billion is large enough to prompt some commentators to call South Africa the "biggest welfare state" in the world, but officials from the International...
Sahel Sahara Bank to increase capitalization to GH¢25 million Joy Online | Audio Attachment | Mr Bentil speaking to Joy Business | Sahel Sahara Bank says it should have at least GH¢25 million as its stated capital by March this year. | According to the Managing Director of the bank, Robert Ekow Bentil, it is yet to reach ...
Bank of Baroda, Sahel Sahara Bank brace up to meet minimum capitalisation Joy Online Joy Business has learnt that Bank of Baroda and Sahel Sahara Bank are the two foreign banks yet to meet the minimum capital requirement of the Bank of Ghana. | All foreign banks in the country were to have increased their capital to GH¢60 million as ...
Cocaine being traded for arms in West Africa: UN The Siasat Daily | Dakar, February 16: Cocaine shipped to West Africa by Latin American drug cartels is now being traded for arms, the UN's drug czar has said -- an exchange of contraband that is especially dangerous in a region now home to cells of an al-Qaida-linke...
Cocaine being traded for arms in West Africa: UN Zeenews Dakar: Cocaine shipped to West Africa by Latin American drug cartels is now being traded for arms, the UN's drug czar has said -- an exchange of contraband that is especially dangerous in a region now home to cells of an al-Qaida-linked terror group....
Cocaine traded for arms - UN Independent online | By Rukmini Callimachi | Dakar, Senegal - Cocaine shipped to West Africa by Latin American drug cartels is now being traded for arms, the UN's drug czar said on Monday - an exchange of contraband that is especially dangerous in a region now home to ...
