Leveraging attractive steel prices to drive more ships to the recycling yards SINGAPORE, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Ships are sent for demolition typically after between 15 and 20 years of usage. However, the pandemic’s pressure has compelled some shipowners to sustain themselves by raising capital with early vessel scrapping – cashing in on attractive steel […]
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, 30 août 2021 /PRNewswire/ — La Vietnam Dairy Products JSC (Vinamilk) accélère ses efforts de R&D pour créer des produits innovants enrichis de saveurs locales afin de satisfaire les divers goûts des clients mondiaux Grâce à ses investissements stratégiques dans le développement de produits, son expansion internationale et son engagement en […]
Planned protests against South Sudan’s government failed to materialize Monday amid a heavy deployment of security forces in the capital, Juba, and a nationwide disruption of internet service.A coalition of activist groups had called for public demonst…
Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people in a raid on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities said. The attackers looted houses and started fires in Kasanzi-Kithovo near Virunga National Park in North Kivu pr…
Kenya is stepping up its COVID-19 vaccination campaign by setting up inoculation centers in public spaces like malls, markets, and bus stops. Authorities hope the extra convenience will lift a vaccination rate that stands at just 2%.At a bus terminal i…
OUAGADOUGOU— Burkina Faso said that it would overhaul its security forces to cope with a six-year militant insurgency that has claimed more than 1,400 lives and forced 1.3 million people from their homes.The government will “review the structural and o…
GOMA (DR Congo)— Dressed in black, dozens of journalists gathered in Goma to pay tribute to fellow pressmen murdered in the last four months in Congo’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces.Two journalists have been murdered in eastern Congo in August alone, …
KINSHASA— The former Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo Eteni Longondo was placed Friday under provisional arrest for alleged misappropriation of funds allocated to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, prison and government s…
N’DJAMENA, CHAD – A Chadian military-political rebel group behind this year’s deadly insurgency said on Friday it was prepared to take part in a national dialogue proposed by transitional president Mahamat Idriss Deby.Deby seized power in April after h…
TRIPOLI, LIBYA – Walk down any commercial street in the Libyan capital of Tripoli and the pavements will be lined with generators ready to spring into action whenever the mains electricity supply cuts out.In the decade since the NATO-backed overthrow o…