Rapid Growth Markets (RGMs) are expected to surpass advanced economies for growth by almost four fold this year, according to professional service firm Ernst & Young’s new quarterly Rapid Growth Markets Forecast (RGMF), released today. RGM’s are expected to grow jointly by 6.2% this year compared with 1.6% for the Eurozone. This new quarterly economic [...]
As the G8 pledges to support Egypt and Tunisia on their way towards sustainable democracies, the Group of Eight is being criticised for losing credibility and ignoring poverty in the Sub-Saharan region. The world’s wealthiest nations promised to provide US$40 billion for the two North African countries during the G8 Summit in Deauville, France, sending [...]
After a promising start to their African Cup of Nations qualifying campaign defeat to Niger makes qualification look distant. Sierra Leone were drawn in arguably the most difficult qualifying group for the 2012 African Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Alongside Niger, they were drawn with Reigning champions and seven times winners Egypt [...]
The stadium built just last year to host the Africa Cup of Nations now sits unused and deserted. We are now approximately 13 months on from when Egypt defeated Ghana to become the continent’s champions for the third time successively and seventh in total. Since then the stadium has been put into little use with [...]
In our Feb 21st – March 7th edition, we take a look forward at the unfolding wider political landscape in Egypt after former president, Hosni Mubarak was forced to concede to the demands of his people. He left the presidential palace in Cairo on Thursday 10th February and headed 250 miles south for the resort [...]
There’s no question that the people power revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt are cosmic events and everywhere in the region, leaders are looking at their own internal stability markers. There has been much discussion about the impact in the Arab world, especially in the Yemen and in Algeria, and there have also been questions raised [...]
For decades Swiss banks have been used to hide away the vast fortunes of corrupt Presidents and despots. At any one time billions of dollars were secreted in Swiss bank vaults while the people of the countries from whence the money came lived in abject poverty. But the times they are a’changing! The Swiss Government [...]
A civil servant has been jailed for three years for insulting President Hosni Mubarak in a poem, according to newspaper reports. Moneer Said Hanna’s family said he wrote satirical poetry for fun, to entertain his work colleagues, and never meant to hurt anyone. The case was largely unknown until the family asked a newspaper to [...]
