Disney bets on cruise market revival with new Japan liner
Targeting a launch in fiscal year 2028, the new ship will be modeled after the Disney Wish, the largest of Disney’s cruise liners.
View ArticleDouble tragedy: The Zimbabwe farmers affected by illegal mining and climate...
The combined impacts create a complex web of challenges for rural farmers.
View ArticleCoffee prices will keep rising into 2025, roaster Lavazza says
This year’s poor harvest has seen roasters pay as much as $1 000 above futures prices for Vietnam’s beans.
View ArticleVisitors are shunning Paris’ most expensive hotels as the Olympics loom
Security has also been tightened along the Seine River before the opening ceremony on July 26, threatening further traffic snarls.
View ArticleSingapore says yes to edible insects in boost to food security
The Singapore Food Agency has released an insect regulatory framework that establishes guidelines for the import of 16 types of insects that have been approved as food.
View ArticleGodongwana spells out fiscal limits, reforms
'The GNU is up and alive and working. We are working very hard here,' Ramaphosa said on the sidelines of the meeting. 'People are contributing, everyone is talking, so it is a great start to the GNU.'
View ArticleSouth Africa needs central climate funding body, commission says
The new body will need to match available funds with projects and also help prepare investable projects to attract more money, the commission said.
View ArticleGlobal markets ramp up the ‘Trump trade’ after rally attack
'Political risk is binary and hard to hedge, and uncertainty was high as it is with the close nature of the race,' said Priya Misra.
View ArticleOil wavers with dollar strength in focus after Trump shooting
Brent for September settlement rose 0.2% to $85.18 a barrel at 12:04 p.m. in Singapore
View ArticleFive key charts to watch in global commodity markets this week
Gold has been flirting with a new record as investors ramp up bets that cooling inflation will finally usher in a pivot to lower US interest rates.
View ArticleBitcoin climbs to more than one-week high
Bitcoin rose as much as 4.5% on Monday and traded at $62 609 as of 5:15 a.m. in London.
View ArticleNigerian central bank dollar sales fail to stem naira weakness
Slipping to the weakest level since March.
View ArticleNigeria’s state oil firm rebuts Dangote claim on refinery stake
On Sunday Aliko Dangote said NNPC no longer owns a 20% stake in the refinery — built to a capacity of 650 000 barrels a day — as it failed to pay for the additional stake by June.
View ArticleKenya braces for more protests with crisis-talks status unclear
Protests began in Kenya in mid-June over Ruto’s plans to increase taxes on everything from bread to diapers to raise more than $2bn the government needs to reduce its budget shortfall.
View ArticleUnit at Africa’s only nuclear plant extended until 2044
The decision is a relief for Eskom, whose mostly coal-fired plants have been prone to breakdowns, resulting in record power cuts over the last couple of years.
View ArticleSouth Africa to establish climate response fund by March
The creation of the fund, is an attempt to set aside money to pay for the strengthening of infrastructure against extreme weather as well as to restore bridges and roads damaged by those events.
View ArticleSA power auction model may be rolled out across Africa
The DBSA, along with other development banks, is trying to kickstart energy projects in a region where 600m people, or about half the population, have no access to electricity.
View ArticlePowell says US data offer confidence that inflation is on path to 2%
Possibly paving the way for near-term interest-rate cuts.
View ArticleEx-Mozambique minister faces US trial in tuna-bond bribe case
Chang allegedly pocketed $5m in bribes and facilitated the laundering of $200m in money funneled to Mozambican officials.
View ArticleRio Tinto iron ore output rises, copper guidance disappoints
The company’s share price fell as much as 2.6% in Sydney on Tuesday.
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