Standard Chartered which has recently released its Trade20 Index, identifying the 20 world economies with the greatest potential for commercial growth, has listed three African countries as rising stars of global trade. These are Côte d’Ivoire (top), Kenya (3rd) and Ghana (13th). The study, which examined 66 markets around the world, found that while existing […]
An Algerian court Monday charged a journalist with “undermining national unity” and requested a three years in jail sentence. The prosecution at a court in Constantine has accused Abdelkrim Zeghileche, director of Radio-Sarbacane, a web-radio in the Northeast Algerian city, of “subverting the personality of the President of the Republic”, and “the national unity”. Zeghileche […]
Spain has acquired four seismometers under a lease-to-own contract, for a total cost of nearly 500,000 euros. These devices will be used to study the seismic activity in the Strait of Gibraltar area, where the future railway tunnel connecting Morocco to Spain is planned to pass, Spanish portal Vozpopuli reported. The connection points are expected […]
