# The Africa Finance Corporation has established a new subsidiary, AFC Captive Insurance Company, to strengthen risk management and support infrastructure financing across Africa. The Bermuda-based company is wholly owned by AFC and has up to 484-million-rands in equity capital. It will initially provide insurance cover for AFC loans, helping the group manage risk and […]
# Die dodetal ná verlede week se verwoestende kits-oorstromings op die grens tussen Nepal en Tibet het meer as ‘n duisend bereik. Die getal vermistes is aangepas na drie-duisend-916, insluitend meer as 600 werkers wat vermoedelik in moddergevulde tonnels in hidrokragprojekte vasgekeer is. Minstens 16 mense is in die Chinees-beheerde Tibet dood en minstens 546 […]
# Die Amerikaanse musieklegende Lionel Richie het homself volgens berigte in ‘n hospitaal laat opneem as voorsorgmaatreël ná die naweek se optrede in St Louis. Die 77-jarige Grammy-wenner was tydens die konsert duiselig en ontwater. Dit volg meer as twee maande nadat Richie ook op die verhoog duiselig was tydens die openingsaand van sy toer […]
# The death toll from last week’s flash flooding disaster on the border between Nepal and Tibet has now topped one-thousand. The number of people missing has been revised to three-thousand-916, of whom more than 600 are workers believed to be trapped inside mud-filled hydropower tunnels in Nepal. Over on the Chinese Tibet side, at […]
# American music legend Lionel Richie has reportedly checked himself into a hospital out of an abundance of caution following a performance in St Louis over the weekend. The 77-year-old Grammy winner experienced dizziness and dehydration during his concert. Richie’s hospitalisation comes more than two months after he experienced dizziness onstage during the opening night […]
# Business Leadership South Africa sê die land moet ʼn handelstrategie volg wat gebou is op die ontleding van waar dit kan meeding en nie op vooruitsigte van spitsberade nie. Die regering het onlangs sy strategiese vennootskap met Brasilië herbevestig met die hoop om ekonomiese bande te versterk. Suid-Afrika het in 2025 goedere ter waarde […]
# Business Leadership South Africa says the country requires a trade strategy that is built on analysis of where it can actually compete, not on the optics of summits. This comes as government has reaffirmed its strategic partnership with Brazil, with ambitions to deepen economic ties. South Africa exported 5.2-billion-rand worth of goods to Brazil […]
# Owerhede in Nepal het begin om honderde ongeïdentifiseerde slagoffers te begrawe ná verlede week se rampspoedige kits-oorstromings. Die sterftesyfer na die ramp op die Nepal-Tibet-grens staan tans op 955, met meer as vier-duisend mense wat nog vermis word. Nepal se skilderagtige Chitwan-distrik dien as tydelike begraafplaas vir liggame wat te erg ontbind is om […]
# Authorities in Nepal have started the process of burying hundreds of unidentified victims following last week’s catastrophic flash floods. The death toll from the disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border currently stands at 955, with over four-thousand people still missing. Nepal’s scenic Chitwan district now serves as a temporary burial ground for bodies too badly […]
