The News Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday threatened a wider range of secondary sanctions on countries that do business with Iran, stopping short of imposing them as the Trump administration continues its battle against inflation. “We are giving everyone the opportunity to remedy that behavior,” Bessent told reporters at ...
Africa’s electricity access gap persists amid investment shortfallAfrica’s electricity access gap persists amid investment shortfall
Africa continues to face the world’s largest electricity access gap with a shortfall in investment “the central constraint,” the latest Africa Sustainable Development Report said. Access to electricity increased from approximately 46% in 2015 to about 53% in 2023, yet nearly 600 million people remain without power. Urban electrification rates ...
Unmanned shutdown of South African coal plant could wipe $550 million off country’s GDPUnmanned shutdown of South African coal plant could wipe $550 million off country’s GDP
An unmanaged shutdown of the Secuda coal-to-liquids plant operated by South African energy company Sasol could wipe $550 million off the country’s $400 billion economy and cost nearly 25,000 jobs, researchers said. The facility, the world’s largest single-site greenhouse gas emitter, supplies nearly a third of domestic fuel, making it ...
The information economy’s dominant currencyThe information economy’s dominant currency
by Roopika Risam. Risam takes readers back to the dawn of data, charting the course of human recordkeeping from Mesopotamian farming to present-day surveillance technology. Inspired by an incident in her own life in which she discovered a singular database error that could have upended her world, Risam considers how ...
Dangote offers East African countries a 30% stake in new refineryDangote offers East African countries a 30% stake in new refinery
Nigeria’s Dangote Group has offered East African countries a 30% stake in a new oil refinery planned in northern Kenya, Bloomberg reported. Ethiopia and Rwanda have already expressed an interest in investing in the facility in Lamu, according to Kenyan President William Ruto’s top economic advisor. The prospective 700,000 barrels-a-day ...
How a Network of Volunteers Is Liberating Critical Court Records for EveryoneHow a Network of Volunteers Is Liberating Critical Court Records for Everyone
This article was republished from our friends over at Court Watch. Please consider subscribing to them if you want the early scoop on what’s happening in our court system, from the concerning to the bizarre. Madeleine O’Neill is a freelance reporter in Baltimore. Hundreds of street arrests that court records ...
How the deadly A66 crash unfolded leaving seven deadHow the deadly A66 crash unfolded leaving seven dead
At 03:30 BST on Saturday, two police officers were killed when a Volkswagen Passat collided with their marked car on the A66 motorway. ...
Burnham vows support for Ukraine despite ‘outrageous threats’ from RussiaBurnham vows support for Ukraine despite ‘outrageous threats’ from Russia
It comes after Moscow warned of “consequences” over the reported use of British drones by Ukraine. ...
UK missiles offer may help Ukraine – but they are not what Zelensky needs mostUK missiles offer may help Ukraine – but they are not what Zelensky needs most
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is handing over blueprints so Kyiv can build its own long-range missiles. ...
Rivals cautiously optimistic as regulator tackles Diageo’s Kenya dominanceRivals cautiously optimistic as regulator tackles Diageo’s Kenya dominance
The News Kenyan brewers see an antitrust decision to impose conditions on Asahi Group’s $2.3 billion acquisition of Diageo’s East African Breweries as a potential opening to reshape market dynamics in their favor. The Competition Authority of Kenya recently set a number of conditions on the deal to assuage longstanding ...