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Harare Bureau GREEN Fuel, Zimbabwe’s largest ethanol producer plans to spend close to $1 billion on expansion in the medium term as the company seeks to become a regional ethanol…
Livestock symposium gets overwhelming response
Sithandazile Moyo Business Reporter PREPARATIONS for the Matabeleland South Livestock Symposium are on course with organisers inviting prospective speakers at the event to submit abstracts of their speeches.
ZSE in talks with automated trading system software firm
Oliver Kazunga Acting Business Editor THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) is in vendor contract discussions with Infotech Middle East FZ-LLC over the Automated Trading System with the outcome expected soon.
Namibian elected Junior Regional Tourism Minister
Acting Business Editor THE Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa (Retosa) has announced that Namibia’s 15-year-old Taloshili Olavi Hangula has been elected the region’s Junior Tourism Minister while his Botswana…
Zim firms use Mauritius as gateway to foreign capital
Harare Bureau MAURITIUS has become increasingly popular among Zimbabwean and foreign firms as the gateway to international finance and the spring board for expansion into other markets across the entire…
Nigerian Islamists kill 18
MAIDUGURI (Nigeria) — Islamist militants stormed a village in remote northeast Nigeria on Monday, torching houses and spraying them with bullets in an attack that killed 18 people, witnesses said.
UN under fire by Assad allies before Geneva 2
Iran and Russia, the key backers of the embattled Syrian regime, have condemned the United Nations retraction of an invitation made to Tehran to take part in the Geneva 2…
Palestinian president refuses extension of peace talks with Israel
RAMALLAH — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hinted yesterday that he rejects any extension of the ongoing US-sponsored peace talks set to run nine months between the Palestinians and Israel.
Barman tries to arrest ‘war criminal’ Tony Blair
What began as an ordinary Friday night for a barman at an upscale London steakhouse ended on a more dramatic note after former UK prime minister Tony Blair entered the…
China nabs 60,000 copyright pirates
BEIJING — As many as 59,222 people suspected of intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement were seized by Chinese police in 2013, the Ministry of Public Security revealed yesterday. They were…