Wall Street Journal: World: Africa
- Goldman Entangled in Malaysia Fund Scandal
Wednesday - 10/14/2015 - 12:01 AMThe FBI and Justice Department are gathering information about Goldman Sachs’s role in a series of transactions at 1Malaysia Development.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dollar Advances on Global Economic Concerns
Tuesday - 10/13/2015 - 04:19 PMThe dollar advanced against the currencies of emerging-market and commodity-exporting countries on Tuesday, as global growth fears helped squelch, for the moment, the recent rally in riskier assets.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Goldman Entangled in Malaysia Fund Scandal
Wednesday - 10/14/2015 - 02:47 AMThe FBI and Justice Department are gathering information about Goldman Sachs’s role in a series of transactions at 1Malaysia Development.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Panama Canal Locks to Open on Time
Monday - 10/12/2015 - 09:55 AMThe Panama Canal’s new, larger locks should open by April as scheduled despite leakage problems, its administrator said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Zimbabwe Won’t Seek Extradition of American Who Killed Cecil the Lion
Monday - 10/12/2015 - 02:38 PMZimbabwe is no longer pressing for the extradition of Walter Palmer, the American dentist who killed Cecil the lion, a cabinet minister said, adding Dr. Palmer can now safely return to Zimbabwe as a tourist because he hadn’t broken the country’s hunting laws.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. Wins Presidents Cup
Sunday - 10/11/2015 - 08:05 AMThe U.S. beat an international team in golf’s Presidents Cup, as they normally do, but this year’s tournament had something it usually lacks: gripping drama.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Suicide Bombings in Chad Kill 38
Saturday - 10/10/2015 - 05:14 PMAuthorities suspect the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in Nigeria coordinated the attacks at a market and a refugee camp.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Coffee Giants Entering Warzones in Scramble for African Beans
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 12:20 PMNespresso, backed by George Clooney, is tiptoeing into South Sudan, while Starbucks is ramping up its operations in Burundi.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Tunisian Democracy Group
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 01:44 PMThe Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, a group comprising labor-union and business leaders as well as human-rights activists and lawyers, won the Nobel Peace Prize for its contribution to democracy in the country.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Commodities Rebound but Investors Remain Wary
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 07:06 PMThe rally this week lifted raw-material prices, mining-company shares and the currencies of developing nations, but the broader picture for emerging markets remains uncertain.
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- AB InBev Wins Over SABMiller, Valuing It at $104.2 Billion
Tuesday - 10/13/2015 - 10:20 PMSABMiller’s board has agreed on the key terms of a sweetened takeover proposal by Anheuser-Busch InBev, valuing it at $104.2 billion.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Asian Morning Briefing: U.S. Stocks Slip Ahead of Earnings
Tuesday - 10/13/2015 - 05:30 PMAsian Morning Briefing
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Africa Risks Bubble in Private-Equity Market, Report Says
Monday - 10/12/2015 - 09:52 AMA bubble may be forming in sub-Saharan Africa’s emerging private-equity market because too many funds are targeting a small number of companies capable of absorbing international investment, according to a new report.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Uganda to Withdraw Troops From South Sudan
Monday - 10/12/2015 - 11:51 AMUganda ordered the withdrawal of thousands of its troops from South Sudan, signaling the beginning of the end of Kampala’s nearly two-year role in the civil war.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Libya’s ‘Masked Men’ Hunt Human Smugglers
Monday - 10/12/2015 - 08:46 PMCitizens of Zumara, Libya, horrified by the drowning of 183 migrants, vowed to stamp out the rampant human smuggling in the coastal town.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Ebola Fades, Guinea Heads into Election
Sunday - 10/11/2015 - 06:00 PMVoters in Guinea, the West African nation still recovering from the worst Ebola epidemic in history, lined up in the rain to take part in their country’s second-ever free election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Q&A: Nobel Chairwoman on the Unique Traits of the Tunisian Movement
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 12:04 PMKaci Kullmann Five on why the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Promise Made to Be Broken
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 01:20 PMThe Iran deal gets even worse.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Nobel for Arab Democracy
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 06:28 PMA worthy prize for voices of secular-Muslim compromise.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Global Stocks Rise
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 08:41 PMMajor U.S. stock indexes posted their best weekly performance in months, boosted by gains in the price of oil.
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- Clinton Confronts Critics at Debate
Wednesday - 10/14/2015 - 12:28 AMHillary Clinton went on offense in the first Democratic presidential debate on gun control, foreign policy and the Republican probe of her email server, while also punching back against a quartet of primary rivals seeking to knock her out of front-runner status.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AB InBev Wins Over SABMiller, Valuing It at $104.2 Billion
Wednesday - 10/14/2015 - 12:47 AMSABMiller’s board has agreed on the key terms of a sweetened takeover proposal by Anheuser-Busch InBev, valuing it at $104.2 billion.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What if the Emerging-Market Move Isn’t a Head Fake?
Monday - 10/12/2015 - 05:11 AMInvestors love trends they can latch on to; turning points are more difficult to navigate. So, while investors have welcomed a sudden bout of stabilization in emerging markets, it could still prove disruptive.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Egypt Court Orders Mubarak Sons Freed
Monday - 10/12/2015 - 01:02 PMWhile not overturning the convictions against Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, sons of the former Egyptian president, the Cairo court gives the two credit for time already served in jail.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nigeria’s President Enlists the West to Help Recover Stolen Money
Monday - 10/12/2015 - 06:43 PMThe U.K. and U.S. have thrown their muscle behind Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s bid to recover billions of dollars he says his compatriots embezzled and stashed abroad.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - South African Official Urges More Clarity From China
Saturday - 10/10/2015 - 01:27 PMSouth Africa’s finance minister said China needs to provide greater clarity about the health of its economy to help officials in other emerging markets respond better to their slowing economies.
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Friday - 10/09/2015 - 10:51 AM
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.N.’s Libyan Unity Plan Meets With Opposition
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 01:42 PMA United Nations proposal for a national unity government in Libya is already facing stiff resistance from a key faction in the politically divided nation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - EU Migrant Redistribution Plan Starts
Friday - 10/09/2015 - 02:26 PMItalian authorities sent a group of Eritrean migrants on a chartered plane bound for Sweden, kicking off a bitterly contested EU plan to redistribute migrants around the region.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Libya Resumes Loadings From Eastern Port Zueitina
Thursday - 10/08/2015 - 12:45 PMLibya has begun exporting oil again from the eastern terminal of Zueitina after production restarted at a nearby oil field, Libyan oil officials said Thursday, in a rare sign of progress in that country’s embattled industry.
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