The investment company formerly known as Citadel is putting more cash in Rift Valley Railways. Qalaa Holdings, the Egyptian investment fund previously known as Citadel Capital, may have a new name, but it has not lost its appetite despite some tough moments after the 2011 uprising.
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The Amazon Fire Phone can now be had for less than a buck. The e-commerce giant said Monday it’s now offering the 32-gigabyte version of its first smartphone, which went on sale in July, for 99 cents with a two-year contract, down from $200. One year of Amazon’s Prime service is still included as a short-term
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Not much seems unusual about Judian and Kadeian Brown’s storefront in a tidy plaza off Church Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where every block seems to have its own African hair-braiding salon. Posters of African-American women with long, sleek hair fill the window. Round jars of shea butter belly up to slender boxes of
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The AU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Anthony Maruping, told journalists in Malabo on Monday that the Fund would work to correct balances of payment positions across Africa. He said such positions were mainly caused by low export of commodities and high import volumes which exerted negative burden on currency stability. The AMF would be established
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Beijing — In July, nations known as the “BRICS,” Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, announced the creation of a new, $100 billion development bank (NDB). The project is aimed at lending money to developing nations for investments, much like how the American and European-backed International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank operate. Liu
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IT TAKES chutzpah to tweet “rockets are tricky” shortly after one you have just launched has deliberately blown itself up. But Elon Musk, founder and boss of SpaceX, is not a man who lacks self-confidence, and he did just that on August 22nd after the terminal malfunction of one of his company’s Falcon 9 vehicles.
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My thoughts would more or less analyze the contents of the email and with the following two excerpts: ( ” .. my theory is that southern Whites simply were not comfortable being in a bar or arena were they are the minority” and “I want the music to be familiar with a 40 year old
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CEO & President, Go Africa Network Inc. (Non-profit) and ASG Global Trade Inc. Dr. Dennie M. Beach has with over 22 years of experience in data warehousing, Cloud computing, Storage, Big Data, BI and analytics with Dell, IBM and Microsoft. Previously, Dr. Beach spent 2 ½ years with the Teradata Corporation as an Account executive
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The mobile internet sector in Africa is developing rapidly, with smartphones becoming much more affordable and growing in popularity. Jumia has taken advantage of this with a mobile app that allows an increasing number of Africans to access the e-commerce platform wherever they are.
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Clocking people’s clocks With some pride, the FBI trumpeted the news last month that thanks to the agency’s facial-recognition system Neil Stammer, wanted for sexual assault and kidnapping, had been apprehended in Nepal after being on the run for 14 years. The truth was slightly more prosaic. A State Department official had used the FBI’s
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