TABJ – Feb 3 - Tullow Oil has finally signed an oil production agreement with the Ugandan government which will allow them to continue their oil activities in the country. The agreement, worth 400 million barrels at kingfisher oil well found and 1.5 billion U.S. ...
TABJ – Feb 3 - Masahiro Yoshikawa has been appointed by IT network technology manufacturer, NEC, as president of its African operations. Yoshikawa’s goals for 2012 include establishing NEC branches in Kenya and Nigeria, assisting operations for the South African government’s National Development Plan (NDP) and ...
TABJ – Feb 3 - Yum Brands Inc. has announced plans to open 130 new KFC stores across the African continent, bringing its total presence across Africa to 1,000 restaurants.The new stores will bring the U.S. food-giants into seven new countries across Africa, including Angola, ...
TABJ – Feb 2 - MasterCard has launched its official East African regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya; the firms fifth office in the African continent. The Nairobi office will manage MasterCard liaisons for customer banks, business associates and consumers in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Mauritius, ...
TABJ – Feb 2 - Zimbabwe’s media commission has announced it will ask authorities to prevent unregistered foreign newspapers from operating in the country. “The Zimbabwe media commission has resolved to bar affected papers from entrance into and circulation within Zimbabwe until they comply with Zimbabwe’s ...
TABJ – Feb 2 - Recurrent power-cuts in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, are having devastating effects on business productivity in the Willowton industrial area. Melanie Veness, Pietermaritzburg Chamber of Business chief executive, said that the outages had already reduced business productivity at many 24 hour operations, causing ...
TABJ – Feb 1 - The mining sector in Ethiopia earned 293 million US dollars over the last two quarters and 218.2 million of the revenue was earned by Artisan miners.These results come from the Ministry of Mines (MoM) who said that exports included Gold ...
TABJ – Feb 1 - Rio Tinto Group is to take control of Richard Bay Minerals (RBM) on the east coast of South Africa in a deal which will see the third-biggest mining company double its stake, and BHP Billiton Ltd. permanently exit the titanium ...
TABJ – Feb 1 - Lucy Jacobs has been announced Chief Operation Officer for Spruce Media, a Facebook Ads API developer, and will be responsible for managing and aligning the many business sectors of the company.“Lucy is a seasoned management professional with extensive operational and ...
TABJ - Jan 31 - An independent brewery from Namibia has been making a splash in top restaurants across Scandinavia. Going against the age-old myth that ‘beer doesn’t travel well’, Camelthorn Brewing Company has delivered its beers to outlets more than 9,000 kilometres away, in order ...
