Mr Jihad Azour, the new Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department, will be visiting Algeria during July 11-12, 2017. His visit will be an opportunity to meet with members of the newly appointed government and exchange…
President Zuma Appoints Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the Financial and Fiscal Commission
President Jacob Zuma has in terms of section 221(1) (a) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, and section 8 of the Financial and Fiscal Commission Act, 1997, appointed Professor Daniel Plaatjies as Chairperson and Dr Sibongile…
Here are the world’s most beloved CEOs
The approval ratings of chief executives at major companies around the world have been released today by a job recruitment website Glassdoor. The site has released its Employees’ Choice Awards for 2017. These include lists of the most highly rated…
Exclusive foodies: the food festivals, wine auctions and events for the world’s 1 per cent
Kristine Price Dozier squealed when she saw the email. Dozier, an international trade consultant; her husband; and another couple had already spent around $US20,000 on hotels, travel and tickets to attend the 35th annual Food & Wine Classic, a four-day…
Jacqueline Kennedy’s watch becomes the most expensive Cartier Tank ever sold
ACartier wristwatch that belonged to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis broke a new world record for a Cartier Tank when it sold for $379,500 (approximately £300,00) at the Christie’s Rare Watches and American Icons auction in New York. The 18-carat gold Cartier Tank was made in…
Media Statement: The Recapitalisation of the South Africa Airways
Government has decided to transfer funds from the National Revenue Fund to South African Airways to allow the airline to pay back its debt to Standard Chartered Bank thereby avoiding a default. This payment was done in terms of section…
MSF: HIV response in West and Central Africa will not succeed if key barriers remain unaddressed
As African heads of state meet today in Addis Ababa to endorse the Emergency catch-up plan led by UNAIDS to accelerate HIV treatment in West and Central Africa, the international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reiterates…
Agriculture ministers urged to address African rural youth unemployment
Youth employment should be at the centre of any strategy to face economic and demographic challenges in Africa, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva told a joint African Union-European Union meeting, hosted at…
WHO declares an end to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The announcement comes 42 days (two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus) after the…
There must be a breakthrough in Hungarian-Egyptian economic relations
On Monday, at the Hungary-Egypt Business Forum organised by the Hungarian National Trading House to coincide with the visit to Budapest of President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called for a breakthrough in Hungarian-Egyptian economic relations.…