Category: World

Ghana adopts Right to Information bill that boosts transparency and government accountability, in a serious boost to the tools available to Africa’s freest media landscape. The Republic of Ghana is located in West Africa, along with the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean, and is bordered by the Ivory Coast, Burkina…

Corporate America brought $664.9 billion of offshore profits back to the U.S. last year, falling short of the $4 trillion President Donald Trump said would return as a result of the 2017 tax overhaul. Donald Trump is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics…

Nairobi plans to shut a refugee camp that is home to nearly a quarter of a million people, mostly Somalis, in the next few months, according to an internal U.N. document. Kenya is a country in Africa with 47 semiautonomous counties governed by elected governors. At 580,367 square kilometres…

Turkey’s central bank sought to calm investors as the nation’s assets fell before an election that will be the first test of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity since he tightened his grip on power last year. The Turkish lira is the currency of Turkey and the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus…

United States Senate Republican leaders forced a stunt vote on March 26 on a climate change measure they ridicule, seeking to corner Democratic presidential hopefuls over an expensive, economy-upending plan proposed by the party’s liberal left wing. The Green New Deal (GND) is a proposed economic..

ISIL may no longer possess physical territory, but its ideology poses a potent threat that demands a concerted effort to thwart. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS or Daesh, is a Salafi jihadist militant group that adheres to a fundamental doctrine of Sunni Islam. Gaining prominence by…

The amount of government debt with negative yields has vaulted back over the $10tn mark after the Federal Reserve’s unexpectedly downbeat outlook exacerbated concerns over the health of the global economy and sent investors scurrying for the apparent safety of sovereign bonds. A bond is an instrument of indebtedness…

African Bank Holdings Ltd. is joining the rush into digital banking to fail-proof the business and provides an exit for shareholders that resurrected the South African lender from its collapsed former parent. Digital banking is part of the broader context for the move to online banking, where banking services are delivered over…

Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation concludes after handing over final report to Attorney General Barr, who controls the outcome of the inquiry. United States’ intelligence agencies believe that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential elections. On May 17, 2017, the Department of Justice (DoJ)…

President Trump overturned longstanding US policy regarding Israeli occupied Golan Heights to fully recognize ‘Israel’s sovereignty’ over the region Israel seized the Golan Heights, a rocky plateau in southwestern Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War and formally annexed the territory in 1981. An armistice line was established…