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Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s inflation rate rose in November for the second consecutive month, reaching 12.4 percent on higher transportation costs, damping hopes for an interest rate cut any time soon.
Rejecting bipartisan criticism, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday detailed an administration human-rights approach that she called “pragmatic and agile.”
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Nigerian Stock Exchange’s All- Share Index snapped five days of losses, rising 0.6 percent to 20,737.31 in the first hour of trade.
NAIROBI, 15 December 2009 (IRIN) - The executive board of UNITAID, the international health financing agency, has approved the establishment of a patent pool for HIV/AIDS medication, a decision AIDS activists say will go a long way in helping poor nations achieve universal access to treatment.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A senior soccer official says countries bidding to host the World Cup must show they will support the sport’s development to have a chance of being awarded the 2018 or 2022 events.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Standard Bank Group Ltd. , Africa’s largest lender, says it’s looking at Nigeria for possible acquisition opportunities as a banking crisis in the West African country slashes valuations.
( Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine ) Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. However, US Military HIV Research Program researchers have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious virus particles can bind to the surface of red blood cells isolated from each of 30 normal (non-infected ...
Thousands of people marched Tuesday in Niamey to back Niger's President Mamadou Tandja, who has obtained an extension of his mandate in defiance of his foes and by flouting the international community.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Old Mutual Plc , the biggest insurer in Africa, is seeking to expand in English-speaking West African countries including Nigeria.
Malaria cases appear to have been slashed by half in more than a third of countries battling the disease following a renewed push by the United Nations to eradicate it, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
MOSCOW -(Dow Jones)- The Gas Exporting Countries Forum, or GECF, has no immediate plans to coordinate output volumes to regulate prices but doesn't rule out becoming an Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries-like cartel in the future, the group's newly elected general-secretary, Leonid Bokhanovsky, said Tuesday.
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Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries raised the estimate for the amount of crude its members will have to pump next year as world consumption recovers.
With manufacturers showing a marked preference for network monitoring systems over traditional protocol analyzers, there has been a shift in balance in these markets. In this battle for market supremacy, network-monitoring systems are emerging as leaders, supported by their status as a complete monitoring solution for network operators.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- OPEC members bound by quotas raised oil production to the highest this year as Nigeria restored output, the organization said today.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Global liquefied natural gas producers may boost capacity utilization next year as the world economy recovers and new production lines iron out kinks, a consultant said.
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