Category: Africa
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South Africa: Cape Town’s Water Usage Up, Despite Calls to Cut Down
Cape Town’s water consumption increased between the last week of 2016 and the first week of 2017, despite calls to use less. The city’s residents used 859 million litres of water per day between January 2 and 8, compared to 835 million litres in the last week of December, the City said in a statement…
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Nigeria: 2017 Budget Will Bring Nigeria Out of Recession – Dogara
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara has expressed optimism that the 2017 budget would lead the country out of its current economic recession. Dogara, who said this on Tuesday in his address welcoming members from Christmas holidays also assured that the House will implement reforms to the budget process to make it more…
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Ethiopia: Chefs in Demand, Food Biz Booms
Tirsit Mezemer, the executive chef at Kaleb Hotel, and her associates are running here and there in the spacious kitchen of the four star hotel. “If you have the passion, being a chef is a great profession,” she proudly states. “The executive chef is not only a chief who commands his or her subordinates sitting…
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Angola: Police Seize Eight Vessels in Maritime Exclusion Zone
Police authorities seized eight fishing vessels in a maritime exclusion zone near bloc 4 in Soyo, northern Zaire province, last weekend. The operation, which culminated in the arrest of the respective ship-owners, was triggered by a multisectorial team integrated by Luanda Port authority and by the inspection services of the Ministry of Fisheries. The spokesman…
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Algeria: Focus On Sub-Contracting in 2017
“The year 2017 will be that of subcontracting,” Industry and Mines Minister Abdeslam Bouchouareb said Thursday in Setif. The minister also recalled the numerous incentives included in 2017 Finance Act to investors in the subcontracting sector. Paying an inspection visit to a tire production unit under construction in Setif industrial zone, the minister stressed that…
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Tanzania: JPM’s Policies May Hurt Economy – IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says some government policies and the uncertainty of its actions could dent Tanzania’s record of a stable economic growth achieved in recent years. According to the IMF, President John Magufuli’s approach to the management of the economy faces four key challenges with a risk of undermining the country’s macroeconomic stability.…
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South Africa: Presidential Housing Project Bogged Down in Corruption and Fraud
A 2010 presidential project intended to house shackdwellers in the south of Johannesburg is mired in corruption and wholesale land theft, with hundreds of residents cheated out of houses they paid for. Those who have attempted to get to the bottom of the theft have been threatened and, in one case, kidnapped. GroundUp spoke to…
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Nigeria: Dangote Cement, Others Lift Stock Market By 1.25 Percent
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index (ASI) rose 1.25 per cent yesterday as highly capitalised stocks led by Dangote Cement Plc lifted the market. After depreciating for the first three days in 2017, the market had last Friday rebounded. And when trading resumed for the second week of the year, tuesday, the uptrend was…
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Nigeria: Oil Workers Score NNPC’s Boss High
Oil workers say the administration and programmes of the current Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru, are worker friendly. The workers, under the Group Executive Councils (GECs) of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff…
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Algeria: Second Production Unit of Ain El Kebira Cement Plant Commissioned
Minister of Industry and Mining Abdesslam Bouchouareb has inaugurated, Thursday in Setif, the second production unit of the cement plant of Ain El Kebira (SCAEK), coming under the Algerian public industrial cement group (GICA). According to the explanations given to the minister, this unit, which has a production capacity of 2 million tonnes per year,…