RIL, Essar eye BP Africaassets Share ARTICLEURL July 28: BP Plc is in talks with Reliance Industries and Essar Group to sell its African retail assets that could be worth as much as $500 million, sources said...
More than 35,000 pairs of shoes will be shipped from Nova Scotia to developing countries by the end of August. (CBC) A Halifaxman has collected more than 35,000 pairs of shoes to be donated to developing countries. Kyle Warkentin started out with the goal of sending...
Regulation, accountability and closer monitoring of a number of well-meaning but often misguided and ignorant aid organisations is vital to prevent them hindering rather than supporting efforts to eradicate poverty in Africa Progress through collaboration: only by...
CAIRO - The leader of al-Qaida's offshoot in North Africa said in a message broadcast Sunday that the group has killed a French engineer taken hostage in Niger in April. In an audio message broadcast on Al-Jazeera, Abdelmalek Droukdel said the group killed the...
Oiltrading company Trafigura was today fined Euro1 million euros (£840,000) for exporting hazardous waste to Ivory Coast and hiding the cargo's dangerous nature when it was unloaded from a ship in Amsterdam. The sum was more lenient than the charge prosecutors asked...
Oil trader Trafigura convicted over export to Ivory Coast and for concealing dangerous nature of the waste in Amsterdam The Probo Koala ship at the port of Tallinn. Photograph: Raigo Pajula/AFP/Getty Images...
Two defeats to New Zealand have it seems bruised more than just South African bodies, making this Saturday an ideal time for Australia to strike. We have been shelled by comments regarding refereeing 'inconsistencies' in Wellington, with Alain Rolland sending Danie...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu announced Thursday he is retiring from public life later this year when he turns 79, saying "the time has come to slow down" and spend more time with his family. The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town said...