ABN# Teams from the three U.S. airlines that own 737 MAX jets headed to Boeing Co’s factory in Renton, Washington, to review a software upgrade on Saturday, as U.S. regulators prepared to receive and review the fixes in coming weeks. The factory visits indicated Boeing may be near completing a […]
ABN# Travel and tourism in Africa grew by 5.6% in 2018 compared to the global average of 3.9% and the broader African economic growth rate of 3.2%, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC). This makes Africa the second-fastest growing tourism region. Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing. According […]
ABN# The figures are awing and have cost the Nigerian economy hundreds of billions of dollars in losses. 734 flights to all destinations were cancelled and more than 41,000 delays were recorded between January and December 2018. In addition, 41,498 pieces of luggage were found out of the 45,058 missing, […]
ABN# The 38th meeting of the Committee of Experts of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development opened in Marrakesh, Morocco, Wednesday with a clarion call for African countries to improve their fiscal policy and expand their tax base so they can ably fund their developmental processes. […]
ABN# Ethiopians on Wednesday celebrated the decision by a London museum to hand back locks of hair cut from the corpse of an Ethiopian emperor during a British invasion 150 years ago. Ethiopians, many dressed in the national colours of red, gold and green, cheered as staff at the National […]
ABN# By Chris Gordon A long-standing mystery of modern times is why the great Mayan cities in Central America disappeared after having survived for over a millennium. At the time of their collapse, there was massive deforestation to clear land for maize and firewood for the Mayans’ expanding population. There was […]
ABN# By Linus Mofor Africa suffers from poor quality and expensive infrastructure servicescompared to other parts of the world. It is estimated that this constrains productivity by up to 40 percent and reduces the continent’s GDP by about 2 percent per year. With the imminent enforcement of the African Continental Free Trade Area—which will […]
ABN# By Jennifer Mohamed-Katerere Any private sector investments in Africa’s food sector must take account of Africa’s smallholder farmers if the investments are to survive, particularly with climate change. Agriculture represents 15 percent of the continent’s total GDP (PPP), and the sheer size of the smallholder sector—more than one-third of […]
ABN# The phone call to the World Bank Treasury came out of the blue: in late 2007, a group of Swedish pension funds wanted to invest in projects that help the climate, but they did not know how to find these projects. But they knew where to turn and called […]
ABN# Tens of thousands of Greater Manchester residents have helped to crash the UK Government petitions website calling for Article 50 to be revoked. As of this evening (Thursday, March 21), 40,183 residents from the city region were among 1.3m nationally asking the government to put aside the result of […]