Author: Thu, 2020-10-22 02:08RABAT: Two years of drought have drained reservoirs in southern Morocco, threatening crops the region relies on and leading to nightly cuts in tap water for an area that is home to a million people.In a country tha…
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Author: Thu, 2020-10-22 01:33RIYADH: Saudi Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih on Wednesday stressed the need for a strong public-private partnership to ensure sustainable growth.He was addressing a session at the World Digital Summit organized…
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Author: Thu, 2020-10-22 01:04MEER ROSTAM, Iraq: Iraq’s Kurdish region has for decades lived off its oil wealth, but plummeting energy prices amid the pandemic and financial mismanagement are forcing locals to return to long abandoned farms.C…
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Author: Thu, 2020-10-22 00:59BANGKOK: Thailand received a group of tourists from China on Tuesday, its first such arrivals since commercial flights were banned in April to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the visitors seemingly undeterred by esca…
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Author: Thu, 2020-10-22 00:56TOKYO: Bank of Japan board member Makoto Sakurai said on Wednesday the central bank must take “swift and appropriate” action if the coronavirus shock delays the country’s economic recovery.If the pandemic tak…
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Author: Thu, 2020-10-22 00:52LONDON: Britain’s government borrowing exceeded forecasts in September and over the first half of the financial year was more than six times higher than a year earlier, due to the huge cost of the coronavirus pandem…
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Author: Thu, 2020-10-22 00:47MADRID: Spain’s Iberdrola announced a deal worth $8.3 billion including debt on Wednesday, adding PNM Resources to its Avangrid business to create the third-largest US renewable energy operator.Absorbing PNM into…
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Author: Wed, 2020-10-21 21:55DUBAI: Young innovators are helping diversify Algeria’s economy away from a reliance on oil and gas, a minister told the World Economic Forum’s virtual conference on Wednesday.Despite COVID-19 challenges and a…
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Author: Wed, 2020-10-21 18:45LONDON: The global aviation body has downgraded its air traffic forecast for the Middle East with passenger numbers to reach only 30 percent of last year’s level.The International Air Transport Association (IATA)…
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Wed, 2020-10-21 16:17MUSCAT: Oman's labor minister discussed plans for replacing foreign workers with Omani workers in government-run companies on Wednesday, state news agency ONA said.The minister discussed the plans, which include a program t…
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Tanzania's economy is booming and its tourism sector is thriving. However, concerns about the president's strong-arm tactics and delays in the completion of key infrastructure projects are threatening this growth.
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to end global poverty, but poorer countries are struggling to hit them. More help from richer countries is crucial, writes Mazdak Rafaty.
- 25 Feb 20, 8:24am -

Kenya’s cabinet secretary for the national treasury and planning, Ukur Yatani, discusses the country’s agenda of fiscal reforms and the importance of constructing an east-west Africa highway.
- 25 Feb 20, 8:24am -

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market, but how can telecoms companies make the most of the huge opportunities the region provides?
- 25 Feb 20, 8:20am -

Combining a strategic location with an investor-friendly environment, Egypt is ensuring its Suez Canal Economic Zone is primed for foreign investment. 
- 25 Feb 20, 8:13am -

London event hears how the UK export credit agency is increasing its focus on trade with African countries. Jason Mitchell reports.
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Emerging states must re-orientate their investment efforts to increasingly target those with an outsized social impact
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Egypt is well on the way to establishing a diversified economy, claims Hala El Saeed, minister of planning and economic development 
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FDI levels have already fallen throughout Iran's main sphere of influence in the region. 
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Togo won a record number of greenfield investment projects last year.
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City leaders saw the threat but did not act: why arguments and rivalries among politicians and power groups allowed disaster to unfold
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Rising demand from China has helped industrial production drive economic recovery
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Race for an effective shot has stoked debate on price and how to support poorer countries
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Gabriel Makhlouf says its base case has been changed to assume no UK deal with Brussels
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Executives defied directions from supervisory board as forensic accountants closed in
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The Democratic candidate’s prospectus may not be heroic, but it sets a different course for the US
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ByteDance-owned short-video platform faces its first big content moderation test
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Investors switch credit deal focus after flood of stimulus saturated many public markets
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Evan Osnos asks how the Democrat candidate has defied odds in the race for the White House
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Millions of Russian tourists will no longer be soaking up the sun in Turkey and supermarkets across Russia will soon stop carrying Turkish produce after economic relations between the two countries further deteriorated on Monday. Russia prevented 1,2…
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Russia continued to ratchet up sanctions against Turkey Monday, announcing a ban on the import of Turkish fruits and vegetables, the Wall Street Journal reported. As sharp words are exchanged between the two trading partners, other countries are alre…
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World leaders convene in France on Monday for the latest global conference on climate change, called COP21, in an attempt to forge the first legally binding climate agreement amid increasing urgency. Yet officials from some countries are worried that…
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Turkey on Saturday issued a travel warning to its citizens, asking them to avoid all non-urgent travel to Russia, as diplomatic tension between the two countries escalates over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey earlier this week.The Turkish…
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UPDATED 9:45 a.m. EST: Russia will suspend visa-free travel agreement with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. The action takes effect Jan. 1, the BBC reported.
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Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting".In an escalating war of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) -- Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public-relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic pressures on the kingdom. Riyadh has the tools available to pro…
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One particular sentence spoken by the Russian foreign minister Tuesday has Turkish officials feeling particularly uneasy: “We do not recommend that our citizens travel to Turkey for tourism or any other reason,” Sergey Lavrov said. He was in So…
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Saudi Arabia and Angola both beat out Russia as the largest crude oil suppliers to China in October, Bloomberg reported Monday. The huge China market is one arena where the world’s suppliers continue to compete for share amid a global oil glut, a…
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European leaders are planning to crack down on the use of bitcoin, prepaid credit cards and other methods of anonymous payment in response to the Paris attacks last week, Reuters reported Thursday. It's part of a crisis plan that aims to dismantle…
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KHALIFA HAFTAR’S self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) says it will cease fire for what remains of the holy month of Ramadan. But friends of General Haftar say he is doubling down on the civil war he started six years ago. His year-long siege of T…
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“THE FORNICATRESS and the fornicator—flog each of them with a hundred stripes; and do not let pity for them hold you back from carrying out God’s law.” So says the Koran, which dates back to the seventh century. Prince Muhammad bin Salman, th…
- 30 Apr 20, 10:54am -

WHEN IT INTERVENED in Yemen’s civil war, Saudi Arabia hoped to make quick work of the Houthis, an Iranian-backed group that had swept down from the northern highlands to seize the capital, Sana’a. Five years later the Houthis are still in control…
- 30 Apr 20, 10:54am -

THE TOYOTA HILUX is a sturdy vehicle. That makes it especially popular in Africa. It outsells all other pickup trucks, or “bakkies”, in South Africa. In Mali and Niger smugglers transporting people and goods across the Sahara will accept no alter…
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“I FEEL YOUR PAIN,” said Edgar Lungu in a televised address on April 24th. The president of Zambia claimed that covid-19 had “thrown into disarray” the country’s finances. He mused about whether the government could afford to pay for pensio…
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Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverag…
- 30 Apr 20, 10:54am -

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverag…
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COVID-19 HAS caused much misery. But on April 20th it helped end Israel’s political deadlock. After three inconclusive elections in the span of a year, the country’s two biggest parties, Likud and Blue and White, put aside their differences and a…
- 23 Apr 20, 10:50am -

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverag…
- 23 Apr 20, 10:50am -

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverag…
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A Democratic majority is poised to revive union workplace dominance.
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Bribes haven’t worked, so now Democrats want to mandate electric autos.
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Congress shouldn’t stop him from improving ties with a reforming Sudan.
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Britain’s central bank is set to become the latest to try negative rates.
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It’s not a partisan or cultural symbol, not a sign of weakness or virtue.
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Joe Biden stays home, nobody trusts polling, and voting methods have become partisan.
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Its algorithms mistake a Monty Python joke for a threat of violence.
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Somewhere along the line, the census was transformed into a scramble for dollars.
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Is disapproval of a president’s personality sufficient reason to transfer power to the Democrats?
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What happens after the world’s most expensive introduction?
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