Passenger traffic at Dubai’s Al Maktoum International Airport surged 84.5 percent in 2016, the state news agency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported on Tuesday. The airport, also known as Dubai World Central (DWC), welcomed 850,633 passengers last year, up from 461,063 passengers in 2015, WAM reported, quoting the airport’s operator, Dubai Airports. Al […]
The Kenyan government should speed up reforms in tax administration to boost inclusive development, transparency and good governance, campaigners said at a forum in Nairobi on Tuesday. Oxfam Kenya Tax Justice Program Manager, Wairu Kinyori said that efficient collection and disbursement of taxes is key to realize sustainable development and stability in the country. “Kenya […]
The eurozone’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate fell to 9.6 percent in December, reaching the lowest level since May 2009 as economic growth accelerated, the statistical office of the European Union (EU) said on Tuesday. The decrease was supported by stronger economic growth, which Eurostat said in a separate press release, was owing to the gross domestic […]
Iran said Tuesday that it has stopped granting visas to U.S. citizens in response to Washington’s recent travel ban against citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran. “We will not issue visa for Americans, but there will be exceptions for some whose cases will be referred to a committee which has been set up at […]
Newly elected senior officials of the African Union (AU) Commission, including Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the AU Commission, were sworn in on Tuesday at the conclusion of the 28th AU summit in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. In addition to the two top officials, other officials took the oath for positions including, peace and security; […]
The Kenyan government on Monday night extradited four drug barons wanted in the United States for drug trafficking charges. Baktash Akasha, his brother Ibrahim Akasha and two foreigners — India’s Vicky Goswami and Pakistan’s Hussein Gulam — were deported to the United States through Nairobi. American FBI was involved in the highly secret operation of […]
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency said Tuesday a Dutch-led team deliberately delayed a probe into the crash of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight in 2014. “The team wants to deliberately mislead public opinion,” Oleg Storchevoy, deputy head of the Russian aviation regulator, was quoted by TASS news agency as saying. A Boeing 777 en route […]
South Sudanese law expert Remember Miamingi on Tuesday that the delayed arrival of the Regional Protection Force (RPF) to the war-torn youngest nation has encouraged the warring factions to continue with the senseless war that has caused huge humanitarian suffering since December, 2013. “The deployment of the Regional Protection Force will not bring the violence […]
Turkey’s tourism income dropped by nearly 30 percent year-on-year in 2016 as tourists chose to shun the country due to worsening security. Turkey posted an income of 22.1 billion U.S. dollars from tourism last year, a sharp fall from 31.5 billion dollars in 2015, according to data released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat) on […]
The World Bank has forecasted strong gains for industrial commodities like energy and metals in 2017; holding crude oil price forecast for the year at $55 per barrel, due to tightening supply and strengthening demand. The Bank’s January 2017 Commodity Markets Outlook, said forecast for crude oil is a 29 percent jump from 2016. The […]
While many, including me, were expecting a bloodbath in The Gambia as the deadline set by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) expired for ex-President Yahya Jammeh to vacate office for the duly elected President, Adama Barrow. I kept a late night on the 19th of January waiting for the news of Jammeh […]
Parliament has praised ECOWAS for its timely intervention in solving the Gambian post-election crisis by deploying troops to maintain peace in that country. The House said the high powered mediation team at various times also ensured that the Protocol on the Mechanism for Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution, Peacekeeping and Security was fully enforced, setting a […]
Ghana Second Year(2YL) of life Project under the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), US, on Thursday donated laboratory drugs worth $60,000 to the Ghana Health Service(GHS). It was part of initiatives in preventing disease spread. Dr Mawuli K. Nyaku, the Head of the 2YL project who presented the donation to Dr Ebenezer Appiah Denkyira, […]
Two Nigerians who allegedly defrauded a United Kingdom based businesswoman of $116,000 under the pretext of transporting two trunks of gold to her have appeared before an Accra Circuit Court. The accused are said to have also forged documents such as Certificate of ownership from the Ministry of Interior, Benin and certificates of deposit in […]
Biologists in Britain have discovered a link between the human body clock and the risk of breast cancer, the University of Manchester announced Tuesday. Chinese-born Dr. Qing-Jun Meng and Professor Charles Streuli have discovered that breast tissues have 24-hour body clocks, and that several hundred genes are regulated in a daily cycle. They say their […]
Nearly 7.66 million railway passenger trips were made in China Monday, the fourth day of the Lunar New Year holiday, a 9.1 percent increase on last year, official data showed Tuesday. The passenger trips could hit 8.3 million on Tuesday as people embarked on return journey with the holiday ending on Thursday, according to China […]
Singapore shares closed 0.59 percent lower on Tuesday, after U.S. stocks fell overnight due to drastic travel curb ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump. Market sentiment deteriorated following the executive order signed by Trump on Jan. 27 to bar Syrian refugees indefinitely and suspend travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries. The order […]
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned the United States on Tuesday against creating new tension over the missile program of the Islamic republic, official IRNA news agency reported. Zarif expressed the hope that Iran’s missile program would not be used as an excuse by the new U.S. administration to create new tension for his […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday backtracked on a statement seen as praising U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for a wall along the Mexican border, following strong protest from Mexico City. In a tweet on his personal account on Saturday evening, Netanyahu wrote “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern […]
At least 11 people were killed and nine others injured in a road accident in Pakistan’s northwestern district of Malakand on Tuesday, officials said. Deputy Commissioner of Malakand, Syed Zafar Ali Shah, said the incident took place when two passenger coaches collided with each other and fell down to a ravine in Shaheed More area […]
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