Billionaire Mo Ibrahim attacks ‘hypocrisy’ over Africa’s gas

One of Africa’s richest entrepreneurs, the telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim , has criticised developed countries for seeking to dissuade African nations from exploiting their vast reserves of gas. Ibrahim told…

Rich countries must drive climate change innovation: Bill Gates

Rich countries are going to have to step up their spending to accelerate the innovation, development and deployment of technologies that will help the world reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according…

All now in place to recreate industry

Zimbabwean industry appears to be split in several groups, some flourishing and some just hanging on with the fingernails, some large and some small, and a lot of the successes…

Formulation of a nation branding strategy

Dr Musekiwa Clinton Tapera Nation branding in a mega project that requires huge resources, effective coordination and efficient execution coupled with good cooperation based on a common sense of purpose…

To cut or to maintain rates . . .

Tapiwanashe Mangwiro The decision by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development to keep punitive interest rates tracking annual inflation until year end as a way to sustain stability, has…

ACE nominated for prestigious award

Business Writer WORLDWIDE air ambulance services, ACE Air and Ambulance has been nominated as a finalist for a prestigious global accolade, The Air Ambulance Company of the Year Award by…

Putin declares martial law in four new regions, three alert levels elsewhere

During the referendum, residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions firmly and conclusively expressed their will. They want to be with Russia. The constitutional…

Key to AfCFTA success is industrial policy, not trade policy

Earlier this month the Secretary General of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, His Excellency Wamkele Mene , spoke with the global affairs think tank Overseas Development Institute…

Man United too good for Spurs

LONDON. — Manchester United dealt a blow to Tottenham’s English Premier League football title aspirations with a dominant 2-0 win at Old Trafford, while Liverpool’s upturn continued with a 1-0…

China’s consumer prices increase, factory prices ease

BEIJING. — China’s consumer prices registered an expanded increase in September, while factory-gate inflation eased amid the country’s efforts to secure sufficient supply and stable prices. China’s consumer price index…