Mining company Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (LSE: ENRC), announced that it had reached a £804m settlement with Canadian company, First Quantum Minerals, over a disputed mine in the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Congo. The settlement was announced ...

For some time, Zimbabwe has been on the ‘no-go’ list as far as international investment is concerned, largely due to the country’s ongoing political instability, AIDS epidemic and a shrinking commercial farming sector in the wake of the government�...

The Seychelles consists of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, hosting a population of about 88,000. Being an archipelago, the country is small on land-mass – but it controls a significant area of exclusive economic zone in the sea, which the governmen...

After the great fall of 2008, which saw share values plummet to record lows in March 2009, recovery took hold and began to gain momentum. Within six months, and despite the toughest market conditions in living memory, the JSE All Share Index had bounced b...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Mozambique, Ernesto Gove, has given quite a positive view of the macroeconomic state of the country over the last five years: “Mozambique has a healthy and stable financial system as well as economy.” Can you commen...

With the Qatari government committed to increasing services and improving infrastructure in the country – it has allocated $130bn to real estate and infrastructure development over the next six years – and as the country’s construction industry cont...

There is a huge infrastructure deficit in Africa – more than $45bn per annum, according to the World Bank – and the current rapid economic growth is unsustainable without very large increases in infrastructure investment. But there is no way t...

Leading the way is Nations Trust Bank, Sri Lanka – the recipient of the World Finance award for Most Innovative Bank in Sri Lanka. In an age when banks and financial institutions are constantly placed under the microscope in terms of transparency, e...

CDG manages saving funds mainly composed of social security funds and postal savings. The company also manages two public retirement and provident funds: CNRA and RCAR. Territorial development has been a key feature of CDG’s strategy in recent years...

If 2009 was the ‘Year of Hope,’ then 2010 will be remembered as the rather less pithy, ‘Year of Continued Recovery.’ Investors across the globe were seen eagerly reading and reacting to the various economic swings in various financ...