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Liberia: President Boakai Among Five African Leaders Invited to Trump Summit as Liberia Appears on Proposed U.S. Third-Country Deportation List
Front Page Africa
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July 3, 2025
MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is among five African heads of state invited to a high-level summit with former U.S. President Donald Trump, scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C., from July 9 to 11. The summit, reportedly...
Cameroon’s ST Digital Ranks Among Africa’s Leading Digital Investors, Says UNCTAD
Business in Cameroon
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June 25, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - ST Digital, a Cameroonian IT services company led by Anthony Same, ranks among the most dynamic digital firms investing in Africa over the past five years. This is according to the 2025 Investment Report by the United...
False Flag Vessels on the rise in the Baltics
SeaNews
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July 3, 2025
On July the 1st, the Sierra (IMO: 9522324), having loaded it’s cargo at Ust Luga, on the 28th June, was tracked approaching Gotland under the Malawi flag. The Aframax tanker, linked to the notorious “shadow fleet” has been under scrutiny by the...
Pakistan records sharpest drop in default risk among emerging markets
The News International
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has topped global emerging markets in reducing sovereign default risk, marking the most significant improvement, according to data from Bloomberg Intelligence. In a statement on X, Adviser to the Finance Minister Khurram...
Trump snubs Tinubu: Nigeria left out as US hosts African leaders
Pulse
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July 3, 2025
The exclusion of Nigeria from a high-profile US-Africa summit hosted by former President Donald Trump has drawn sharp criticism from opposition figures, who call it a damning indictment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration and its...
Pakistan tops rankings for risk improvement
The Express Tribune
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June 29, 2025
Listen to article KARACHI: In a major economic milestone, Pakistan has emerged as the top-performing market in the Global Emerging Market (EM) Rankings for reducing sovereign credit risk, according to a new Bloomberg Intelligence report. Over the...
2025 Freedom and Prosperity Indexes: How political freedom drives growth
Atlantic Council
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June 23, 2025
By Ignacio Campomanes, Nina Dannaoui-Johnson, Annie (Yu-Lin) Lee, and Joseph Lemoine Table of contents The dangerous authoritarian narrative A dangerous belief has taken root globally: that political freedom is not essential to prosperity and may...
‘Pakistan leads emerging markets in sovereign risk recovery’
Daily Times
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June 28, 2025
In a positive development on the economic front, Pakistan has emerged as the most improved emerging market in terms of sovereign credit risk, according to the latest analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence. Backed by macroeconomic stabilization,...
Cameroon Attracts CFAF529B in FDIs in 2024, Ranking 4th in Central Africa
Business in Cameroon
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June 24, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon attracted $925 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2024, a 15.7% increase from the previous year, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This amount is equivalent...
Pakistan records largest drop in default risk among emerging markets
The Express Tribune
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June 28, 2025
Listen to article Pakistan has achieved the world’s steepest decline in sovereign default risk over the past year, leading Bloomberg Intelligence’s Global Emerging Market (EM) Rankings for credit risk improvement, according to data released by the...
Greece: April to June 2015, towards the final capitulation
CADTM
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June 20, 2025
From the end of April 2015, under pressure from European leaders, Tsipras left Varoufakis out of the negotiations in Brussels, though not withdrawing his minister of finance portfolio.Tsipras replaced him with Euclid Tsakalotos while giving...
MAADA BIO SNUBBED AGAIN : President Trump refuses to invite him to the White House for major summit on Africa
Cocorioko
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July 3, 2025
Screenshot By Kabs Kanu U.S President Donald Trump has cast aspersion and scorn on President Maada Bio as done by his predecessor President Joe Biden. Bio’s chairmanship of ECOWAS had counted for nothing as President Trump has refused to invite...
Pakistan makes surprising comeback with sharpest drop in Default Risk
Pakistan Observer
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June 28, 2025
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan survived odds with surpisiong default risk comeback despite political and regional turmoil as Bloomberg Data shows South Asian nation as most improved emerging market in Credit Risk. The development is major boost to economic...
Pakistan leads emerging markets in sovereign risk recovery, says Bloomberg Intelligence
Business Recorder
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June 28, 2025
In a positive development on the economic front, Pakistan has emerged as the most improved emerging market in terms of sovereign credit risk, according to the latest analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence. Backed by macroeconomic stabilization,...
Pakistan sees sharpest drop in default risk globally; Bloomberg Intelligence
Profit by Pakistan Today
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June 28, 2025
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has emerged as the most improved emerging market in terms of sovereign credit risk, recording the steepest decline in default probability over the past year, according to an analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence. The development...
Embrace investment-driven partnerships
Business Ghana
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African leaders have called on Monday for an urgent review of U.S. tariffs on African exports, urging a shift towards transformative partnerships and investment in Africa’s economic potential. Addressing more than 2,000 government and business...
Pakistan leading emerging markets in reduced default risk
Dawn
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June 28, 2025
Pakistan is leading the Global Emerging Markets (EM) Rankings, indicating improvement in default risk, Adviser to the Finance Minister Khurram Schehzad said on Saturday. The current government has reassured that the country has moved onto a path...
Simbi Wabote’s Blueprint: How African Oil Nations Can Build Effective Local Content Frameworks
Business Matters
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June 16, 2025
Simbi Wabote, who served as Executive Secretary of Nigeria’s Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) from 2016 to December 2023, has become a go-to advisor for African nations crafting their own approaches to local participation. “A lot...
Shadow Fleet Exposed by Sanctions and Sensors
Hellenic Shipping News
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July 1, 2025
Russia’s shadow tanker fleet has at least tripled since the 2022 invasion. US-EU sanctions are steadily blacklisting hundreds of ships, pushing up the cost of evasion and shrinking safe harbours. Operators are masking ownership through shell...
Anyaoku hails Ramphal as immeasurable champion of the Commonwealth
National Accord Newspaper
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July 2, 2025
Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Africa’s first Commonwealth Secretary-General (1990-2000), has praised his late predecessor Sir Shridath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal of Guyana for championing “the universal recognition of the Commonwealth as an organisation with a...