JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—On any sunny summer’s day, Sandton’s glass and metal towers gleam and light up the northern Johannesburg skyline, symbols of South Africa’s economic ties with the West. Global business behemoths with offices in Africa’s financial powerhouse include the kingpin of international management consulting, McKinsey & Company, headquartered in six major cities in the United States, including Boston, Los Angeles, and Washington. Sandton is also home to Bank of America’s Africa Headquarters and Barclays Bank of the United Kingdom, British Petroleum, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Sandton City, the largest retail mall on the continent, normally brims with shoppers,…
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REFORMS OVERVIEW STARTING A BUSINESS (more info) At the fifteenth position, worldwide, and first in Africa, under the Starting a Business index of the 2020 Doing Business ranking, Togo sustains its reformative dynamics with more reforms…. ENFORCING CONTRACTS (more info) Compared to some years ago when it was one of the lowest rankers under the Doing Business’ Enforcing Contracts indicator, Togo, leveraging many efforts to improve its business climate, was able to jump significantly on the index in the recent years… . CONTRACT EXECUTION (more info) Creation of special chambers of commerce for small debts…
Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Oct. 29, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Picture Book rankings include hardcover sales only. Series rankings include all print and e-book sales. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates…
Comment on this storyCommentHow do Latino people — the largest ethnic minority group in the United States — use social media to get their political and public health information? With Twitter now owned by the wealthiest man in the world and voting about to end in the 2022 midterms, the answers to that question have consequences. The news Latino people encounter online would probably be quite different from what White people encounter, since many Latino people consume news in Spanish: 30 percent of U.S. Latinos consider themselves bilingual, and 40 percent communicate primarily in Spanish. Some social media platforms, including…
HarperCollins Children’s BooksGrieving the death of her mother and an outcast at school, thirteen-year-old Mei finds solace in cooking and computer games. When her friend’s grandmother falls ill, Mei seeks out her father, a doctor, for help, and discovers the hospital is overcrowded. As the virus spreads, Mei finds herself alone in a locked-down city trying to find a way to help.Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the reader follows 13-year-old Mei who, through her love for cooking, makes a difference in her community. My 9 year…
Foreign Secretary announces fresh finance to support African countries to adapt to the impacts of climate change The UK funding pledged at COP27 in Egypt will help deal with severe drought and floods across the continent James Cleverly said the funding will go, via the African Development Bank, to “those most affected by the impacts of climate change” The Foreign Secretary has announced a significant increase in the UK’s financial support to African countries on the frontline of climate change. Speaking alongside African leaders at an event at COP27, the Foreign Secretary confirmed the UK will provide £200 million to…
EGYPT: Carbon markets offer an incredible opportunity to unlock billions for the climate finance needs of African economies while expanding energy access, creating jobs, protecting biodiversity, and driving climate action. However, Africa currently produces only a tiny percentage of its carbon credit potential. Led by a 13-member steering committee of African leaders, CEOs, and carbon credit experts, the Africa Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) was launched on Tuesday with the aim of dramatically expanding Africa’s participation in voluntary carbon markets. The initiative was inaugurated at COP 27 in collaboration with The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), Sustainable Energy…
Ten African countries have accused the EU of jeopardising the survival of the common hippopotamus by not supporting a proposed commercial trade ban, in documents seen by the Guardian.Illegal hunting for meat and ivory is thought to have wiped out hippo populations in five African states: Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Liberia and Mauritania. But Brussels is planning to oppose a bid to ban the global trade in hippo products at a Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) conference in Panama from 14 November.That in turn has sparked “grave concerns about the future of this…
The Super Target at 4313 Ambassador Caffery Parkway remodel is near completion. It’s all part of 150 store revamp nationwide. Target calls the revamp a “glow-up” as the updates are subtle yet noticeable.Most of the work is complete, the finishing touches will be completed after the holidays.The enhanced shopping experience starts when you enter the parking lot. The entire storefront has a new look.Super Target on Ambassador CafferyStaff Photo The upgrade includes modern lighting and fixtures, revamped order pickup and drive-up areas, touchless bathroom fixtures and more spaces between checkout lanes. The dressing rooms have also been completely remodeled to look…
Bilingual Baby: “Daddy, today I got to watch Daniel Tiger.” Daddy: “Oh, cool. In what language?” Bilingual baby looked at me inquisitively. But I shrugged and let her answer. She replied confidently, “In English!” I scrunched up my face, and Bilingual Baby’s dad said, “Are you sure?” Bilingual Baby was sure, “Yeah! English!” Finally I chimed in and let her know that she’d actually watched two episodes of Daniel Tiger back-to-back in Spanish. “But,” I told her, “you didn’t even notice because you understand it just as well as you understand it in English.” But she wasn’t convinced. “No!” she…