The World Bank has announced that it will provide USS$10 million to assist Liberia tackle the sharp increases in the price of food.

May 2008 marks the one year anniversary of the Executive Mansion website (www.emansion.gov.lr), a major source of information from the Presidency both in Liberia and the rest of the world. The launch of the website has made it possible for

Guinea's hasty attempt to grant the demands of mutinous soldiers ending a two-day civil disobedience over back pay could weaken their authority to manage political and economic pressures in a country that risk a 'coup d'etat,' analysts observed.

WHEN Charles Taylor stood for election as President of Liberia in 1997 one of his slogans was "He killed your ma, he killed your pa; vote for him or he'll kill you too"! Liberia was a nation wrecked by civil

When parliament adopts the new Consumer Protection Bill aimed at protecting consumers from harmful practises, South Africans will be amongst the best protected in the world.

CONTEMPT of court charges against NBC Director General Bob Kandetu have been withdrawn after the corporation undertook to pay a penalty prescribed by the District Labour Court in a case of unfair dismissal by Friday next week.

THE current shift of financial power from multi-national organisations such as the World Bank, IFC and others to sovereign wealth funds (SWF) presents developing nations such as Zimbabwe with a new source of foreign direct investment.

Afrikaans is a lucrative language - in the business world, the entertainment industry and the advertising world. Just look at successful Afrikaans super stars like Patricia Lewis and Steve Hofmeyr. That is why the theme of this year's Pendoring campaign

The 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV), which started on Wednesday in Yokohama (Japan), closes this Friday with the adoption of the Yokohama Declaration. The about forty heads of State and Government who have been attending the

Momentum McCann South Africa has appointed Sandile Phumlani Mkhasibe as joint executive creative director of its sponsorship, event, promotional and retail marketing network, it announced earlier this week.

Angola's Geology and Mining minister, Manuel Africano, attends this Friday, in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), the 28th meeting of the governing council of the Southern and Eastern Africa Mining Development Centre (SEAMIC).

The southern branch of Mozambique's publicly owned ports and rail company, CFM-Sul, expects to move between 2.8 and three million tonnes of cargo by the end of this year along the rehabilitated line between Maputo and Ressano Garcia, on the

AS prices of basic commodities continue to soar, dairy products will also go up again by an average 13 per cent next month.

THE outcry by MTC on threatening to take First National Bank to court over their involvement in rugby is simply uncalled for.

A legal diploma on the control and combat to tobacco, meant for the protection of citizens against their involuntary exposition to the smoke and the establishment of measures for the reduction of its search will be approved, soon, by the

As from Sunday, the Holiday Inn hotel on the Maputo beach front will be rebranded a "Southern Sun" hotel.

Angola National Air Navigation Company (ENANA)'s administrator, Celso Rosas, said Thursday in Lisbon that the Angolan government will invest more than USD 400 million in the rehabilitation of airports in the country until 2010.

THE frequent delays by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) in releasing inflation figures could have a serious impact on business planning and promotion of foreign direct investment, analysts have warned.

ANNUAL inflation for May galloped to 1 700 000% as the Zimbabwean dollar continued to crash causing prices of goods and services to skyrocket.

A NATIONAL mineworkers' strike was narrowly averted yesterday after the Skorpion Zinc Mine reached agreement with the Mineworkers' Union of Namibia (MUN).