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Publié le : 16/07/2021 - 08:32 Revolut, une banque en ligne britannique, monte en puissance et vaudra bientôt 33 milliards de dollarsaprès une nouvelle levée de fonds. Avec seulement sixans d'existence, elle veut devenir la première banque dans le monde sur internet et rejoindre les établissements financiers historiques de la City. L'an dernier, elle valait
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Abiy's government and the regional one run by the Tigray People's Liberation Front each consider the other illegitimate.
\t There was no immediate word from the three AU envoys, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe. AU spokeswoman Ebba Kalondo did not say whether they can meet with TPLF leaders, something Abiy's office has rejected.
\"``Not possible,'' senior Ethiopian official Redwan Hussein said in a message to the AP. ``\"Above all, TPLF leadership is still at large.'' He called reports that the TPLF had appointed an envoy to discuss an immediate cease-fire with the international community ``masquerading.''
\t Fighting reportedly remained well outside the Tigray capital of Mekele, a densely populated city of a half-million people who have been warned by the Ethiopian government that they will be shown ``no mercy'' if they don't distance themselves from the region's leaders.
\t Tigray has been almost entirely cut off from the outside world since Nov. 4, when Abiy announced a military offensive in response to a TPLF attack on a federal army base.
That makes it difficult to verify claims about the fighting, but humanitarians have said at least hundreds of people have been killed.
\t The fighting threatens to destabilize Ethiopia, which has been described as the linchpin of the strategic Horn of Africa.
\t With transport links cut, food and other supplies are running out in Tigray, home to 6 million people, and the United Nations has asked for immediate and unimpeded access for aid.
AP
[Vanguard] \"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace\" - Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, p 267.
[New Times] Rwandan agricultural Scientists are in trials to grow crops among rocks.
[New Era] A local farmer is desperately attempting to rebuild his goat farming business, after losing over 150 animals in just three days.
Press Release - Securing water for farming and sanitation is no pipe dream
[Ghanaian Times] Political parties are the foundation block of the democratic state. They exist to organise the population along a political ideology and sponsor candidates during elections to national offices to steer the affairs of the country.
CAPTAINS of industry will gather in Harare next week to come up with solutions for challenges affecting the sector. BY BUSINESS REPORTER Preliminary projections indicate that the manufacturing sector will fall by 9,6% in 2020, largely because of reduced aggregate demand and a reduction in working hours caused by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, who will be the guest of honour at the industry indaba to be hosted by Global Renaissance Investment, said government was putting in place measures to resuscitate the economy. “The gradual reopening of the economy under an improving macroeconomic environment arising from fiscal and monetary reforms and enhanced availability of foreign currency from the foreign exchange auction system, should provide impetus for the sector to rebound by 6,5% in 2021,” he said. The Treasury boss noted that government was promoting value chains, which are a critical industrial development strategy as they advance inclusive growth, economic viability and sustainability for both business and beneficiary groups. “Government will, therefore, strengthen local agro-processing value chains in agriculture and mining through promoting local production and where possible, incentivising local private sector participation. “Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity for domesticating value chains, particularly in the manufacturing industry. “Through appropriate funding models, government will support small, medium and large enterprises that seek to exploit such opportunities. “With regards to agro-processing, the priority is on supporting various agro-value chains linked to agriculture output such as grains, horticulture, cash crops including tobacco, soya beans and cotton, dairy and livestock local production and processing,” he said. To facilitate the envisaged local manufacturing, the government is reviewing issuance of import licences and import duties on both imported raw materials and finished products, with a view of encouraging and incentivising local producers of agro inputs, as well as local manufacturers for local processing. Ncube said it was also crucial for local firms to learn from some subsectors such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals and petroleum, rubber, foodstuffs and ICT, as well as exporters that recorded positive gains this year notwithstanding the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Ngoni Dzirutwe, the GRI chief executive, said the event would also celebrate business survival in the COVID-19 era where most companies faltered. “This platform will afford business leaders an opportunity to energise and come back prepared in the new year to deal with these challenges and be ready to expand their businesses into the lucrative African market,” he said. South Africa’s ambassador to Zimbabwe Mphakama Mbete and his Rwandan counterpart James Musoni are expected to present papers on how the local industry can tap into regional markets. Other notable speakers for the event include Industry minister Sekai Nzenza, Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries president
[IPS] Khartoum -- Earlier this year, when heavy rains caused massive flooding in Sudan, a three-month state of emergency was declared in September. The floods which began in July, were the worst the country experienced in the last three decades and affected some 830,000 people, including 125,000 refugees and internally displaced people.
[New Times] The Government is set to kick off the exercise of placing citizens in their respective Ubudehe categories on Friday, December 4, The New Times has learned.
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Most rural land in America is owned by white people.
WORKERS of one of the major agricultural operations, Blue Agri Private Limited, have gone on strike over “extremely low” salaries of about $3 000 per month, NewsDay Business has established. BY MTHANDAZO NYONI The strike, which started a week ago, is crippling the company’s operations. “There is a farm in Mashonaland Central called Oban Farm whose workers, totalling about 200, have not been going to work because of poor salaries. “They are on strike,” Progressive Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers’ Union of Zimbabwe (Paawuz) secretary-general Raymond Sixpence, said. The farm, formerly owned by late John Dollar, is now being operated by Blue Agri. “The workers failed to raise US$1,50 as school fees for their children. “They approached the employer for help but the employer refused to give them. “So the workers have not been going to work for almost two weeks now. “Each student was supposed to pay US$1,50,” Sixpence said. The farm is exporting bananas, avocados, cut flowers among other products but is refusing to pay workers a living wage, according to Sixpence. Reached for comment, the company’s human resources manager Brian Wonenyika declined to comment, referring all the questions to his boss who could not be reached for comment. “I cannot comment on that. “You can call my boss,” curtly he said. Sixpence said farm workers in Zimbabwe were literally modern-day slaves, earning extremely low salaries, yet agriculture is the backbone of the economy. “They are now paid $3 180 per month at a time the government is bragging of making money out of tobacco and everything. “Farm owners can pay their maintenance and everything in foreign currency but cannot do that for the workers. “To be fair, we think employees should get at least $8 500, for the least paid,” he said. “The employers are very adamant; they still want to continue exploiting workers. “We have tried to engage them but they are not willing. “Now there are strikes at the farms, the workers are withdrawing their labour,” he said. Zimbabwe’s monthly cost of living as measured by the Zimbabwe National Statistics agency, went up by 4,1% to almost $18 000 in September. In South Africa, the lowest paid farm workers earn about US$230 per month. Sixpence said the agricultural sector was losing workers to artisanal mining and vending due to poor salaries. “The agricultural industry will end up having a shortage of labour. “Workers are more than beggars now and the General and Plantation Workers' Union of Zimbabwe when it negotiates it settles for peanuts. “The Labour Act is taking long to be amended whereby we should all be part of the negotiation table,” he said. He said there were more than 10 workers’ unions in Zimbabwe but only two were allowed to negotiate for workers’ salaries. Sixpence said the challenge was that most government officials and ministers were farm owners, hence their reluctance to improve the welfare of workers. “They (government officials) are employers hence and they do not want to pay. “Now it is black monopoly capital. “We were fighting whi
[This Day] The federal government has repeatedly assured that the current economic downturn will be transient, but experts remained cautious, especially as the threat posed by COVID-19 subsists, writes James Emejo
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[PR Newswire] London -- Three-day virtual event from 1 December to 3 December will bring together the very best in UK and African legal expertise.
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FANS RETURNED to the Emirates Stadium for the first time since March as Arsenal beat...
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[Premium Times] At least 44 rice farmers were killed by suspected members of the Boko Haram while harvesting their crops, a lawmaker and sources have said.
