Category: International Business & Finance
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🇰🇪 Kilimani’s Emerging Chinatown: How Chinese Influence Is Reshaping a Nairobi Neighborhood
How and when it started Kilimani has long been an upper‑middle‑income Nairobi neighborhood, but it began shifting from low‑density residential to high‑density mixed‑use from the 2000s onward, creating space for new foreign‑owned businesses.[3] Most Chinese migrants arrived in Kenya from the late 1990s and especially after the early 2000s infrastructure boom, then clustered near the…
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Three West African juntas have turned to Russia. Now the US wants to engage them
The US has declared a stark policy shift towards three West African countries which are battling Islamist insurgents and whose military governments have broken defence ties with France and turned towards Russia. The state department announced that Nick Checker, head of its Bureau of African Affairs, would visit Mali’s capital Bamako to convey the United…
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🇱🇷 UBA CEO Africa 1, Chioma Mang, Pays Courtesy Visit to Liberia Following Her Appointment
Monrovia — United Bank for Africa (UBA) has reaffirmed its commitment to Liberia’s financial sector as its newly appointed Group Chief Executive Officer for Africa 1, Madam Chioma Mang, paid a courtesy visit to the country as part of a continent-wide strategic engagement tour. The visit follows Mang’s recent appointment and underscores UBA Group’s efforts…
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Epic Games & Google Reveal Secret $800 Million Deal During Legal Battle
“We view this as a significant transfer of value from Epic to Google.” Epic Games’ willingness to settle its antitrust lawsuit against Google might have seemed sudden, and California District Judge James Donato has some concerns as well. “The only changed circumstance that I can see right now is Epic and Google – two mortal enemies…
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🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪🇷🇺 Russia to Deploy Strategic Communications Satellite for Sahel Alliance, Reshaping Regional Security and Influence
In a move signaling a major geopolitical realignment in West Africa, Russia has agreed to support Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger in developing a shared communications satellite. This initiative, spearheaded by Moscow, aims to create an independent orbital infrastructure for the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), directly challenging traditional Western hegemony in the region’s critical…
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🇪🇹 Ethiopia to Print Its Own Currency in Push for Economic Sovereignty
Ethiopian Investment Holdings plans to begin building domestic currency printing capacity as part of a move to reduce risks associated with producing banknotes abroad, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) said on Thursday. Speaking at the Finance Forward Ethiopia 2026 conference, Abiy said the state-owned asset manager would take on the role as part of a…
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🇴🇲 Oman selects Airbus for reconfigurable OmanSat-1
It will provide telecommunications services across Oman, the Middle East, East Africa, and Asia, supporting government networks, private communications, broadband, maritime, and aero connectivity. Questions and Answers: What is OmanSat-1? OmanSat-1 is a fully reconfigurable, high-throughput Ka-band telecommunications satellite for Oman, capable of adjusting coverage and capacity while in orbit. Who is building the satellite?…
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🇺🇸 Alleged Latin Kings Gang Member Arrested on Federal Charges After Stealing Rifle From FBI Vehicle
MINNEAPOLIS – A prior convicted felon was charged in a criminal complaint today with being a felon in possession of a firearm and theft of government property after breaking into an FBI vehicle and stealing a rifle, announced United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. Rosen was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge…
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🇨🇮 West Africa’s Beauty Industry Booms: CBH Expo 2026 Opens Doors for Global Brands in Abidjan
The gateway to West Africa’s beauty industry, worth hundreds of millions in imports, will swing open this April in Abidjan, offering global brands a direct line to one of the continent’s most dynamic consumer markets. From April 16 to 18, 2026, Abidjan will transform into the epicenter of West Africa’s beauty industry as it hosts…
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🇨🇳 Are You Dead? What China’s Darkly Humorous Viral App Reveals About Urban Loneliness
A bluntly named Chinese app called “Are You Dead?” has exploded in popularity, and its rise says as much about modern loneliness as it does about technology. [1][2] What the app actually does The app, known in Chinese as “Sileme” (literally “Are you dead?”), is built around a single, stark function: proving that you are…