Africa’s new online foreign exchange system will enable cross-border payments in local currencies – what you need to know: The high cost of making cross border payments on the African continent has driven governments on the continent to seek options of settling trade and other transactions in local currencies. This has given birth to the …
Energy crisis: how the EU hopes to tackle high power prices while protecting its cross-border electricity market: The EU has taken action as power prices have have spiked in line with gas prices this year. Viktollio / Shutterstock Europe is getting more of its power from renewable sources every year but, as the current crisis …
Alexander Litvinenko: court judgment on assassinated Russian spy has cross-border implications: Alexander Litvinenko in University College Hospital after being poisoned with a radioactive substance. Wikimedia Commons The European court of human rights has ruled that Russia is responsible for the 2006 assassination of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in the UK. The six to one judgment …
South Africa in the news: Germany lifts ban on travel from South Africa, offering relief to students and cross-border couples: The Robert Koch Institute’s (RKI) latest travel advice released on Friday confirmed that South Africa will no longer be considered an ‘area of variant concern’, meaning travel from the African state …: “South Africa” – …
How COVID-19 affected informal cross-border trade between Uganda and DRC: Congolese women at the border crossing with Uganda at Bunagana in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Phil Moore/AFP/GettyImages Informal cross-border trade, which includes smuggling, is hugely important for survival in, around and beyond border regions. Across the border between Uganda and …
South Africa in the news: Citi Launches Digitized Documentation for Cross-Border Payments: Citi has announced the launch of a new service for its institutional clients that speeds up the processing of their cross-border payments through the digitization of supporting documents. The service, …: “South Africa” – BingNews Merafe loss falls, electricity risk remains, logistics challenge …
Kenya responded fast to Ebola scare, but cross-border risk remains high: Border screening at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport EPA-EFE/DANIEL IRUNGU The second largest Ebola virus disease outbreak on record is currently raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with over 2,000 cases and more than 1,400 deaths recorded. Uganda, which shares a …
Check out this Cape Town image: Stories from Africa: Cross-Border Commerce Image by World Economic Forum Participants at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015 in Cape Town. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for WordPress. Have …
Cross-border wedding held as California ‘Door of Hope’ opens new: In this Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, photo, Evelia Reyes, along with her daughter, watches at the “Door of Hope”, part of the for the border fence, for her fiance, Brian Houston, of San Diego, to walk up for their wedding in San Diego. The United …
A nice Cape Town image: Stories from Africa: Cross-Border Commerce Image by World Economic Forum Participants at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2015 in Cape Town. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Jakob Polacsek Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for WordPress. Have you …