Category: Business
Somalia: Somali Oil Conference Protest in London
LONDON (HAN) February 7th, 2019. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security. Somalia is having Oil Conference in London. They say they won’t allow bidding during the event anymore but will only present new oil data.
Stocks – Dow Ends Three-Day Winning Streak as Video Game Stocks Slump
Investing.com – The Dow ended its three-day winning streak Wednesday as a slump in video game stocks offset gains in healthcare stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.08%, the S&P 500 fell 0.20%, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.36%. The S&P 500’s loss was its first after five straight gains. Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive came under heavy selling pressure after delivering…
Somali: How Cryptocurrencies Can Protect Citizens Against (Hyper)Inflation
Cryptocurrencies are often associated with strong price fluctuations that some argue make them unusable as day-to-day spending currencies. However, the reality is that the world’s leading digital currency bitcoin has helped to act as a store of value and as an alternative currency in countries that are suffering from high levels of inflation and weakening…
Somaliland: Ireland plots a Course for the next 100 years
Hargeisa (HAN) February 6th, 2019. Public Diplomacy and International Trade Opinion for the conflict in the Horn of Africa. According to IrishTimes, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: “One hundred years ago we were an island on the periphery of western Europe. In the next 100 we will be a nation at the heart of the common European…
Kenya: East African Military Intelligence Chiefs Meeting
Nairobi (HAN) February 6th, 2019. Public Diplomacy and Regional Security. Taarifa. Military intelligence chiefs from the East African Community meti in Kigali, Ruwanda without Somalia and Djibouti Counterparts. According to Taarif: Military intelligence chiefs from the East African Community meeting in Kigali will not leave before they have solutions for the latest continental threats. The…
The Economist: “Get Ready For A World Currency By 2018”
THIRTY years from now, Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and people in many other rich countries, and some relatively poor ones will probably be paying for their shopping with the same currency. Prices will be quoted not in dollars, yen or D-marks but in, let’s say, the phoenix. The phoenix will be favoured by companies and shoppers…
What is a security token?
BY: Haseeb Awan. Security Token Offering can be best defined as a “Public-Private” security offering that utilizes regulatory body framework such as Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) or Ontario Securities Commission ( OSC) to offer investment products via blockchain technology. Preface A securities offering (or funding round or investment round) is a discrete…
Battle for US skies: Ethiopian Airlines ups the stakes
Africa’s leading carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, has upped the competition for the US market, with this week’s announcement that it will introduce three-times-a-week flights to the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, adding to its flights to the city’s Newark International Airport. The announcement may not come as good news to the region’s other…
SomaliCoin: EURO-pegged stablecoin? Somali financial system
Over the past several months, stablecoins have captured a big share of the cryptocurrency community’s attention. Much of this is due to a new crop of high-profile tokens that are making aggressive bids for Tether’s market share, including USDC, GUSD, and PAX. All three of these new tokens are pegged to the U.S. dollar. In…
Ethiopia: Jawar twitted Saudi Billionaire “Take him to join his MIDROC crime partners”
Djibouti (HAN) February 5th, 2019. Public Diplomacy and International Financial crimes. According to the newbusinessethiopia and other realdbale sources, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali AL-Amoudi was jailed for corruption charges along other Saudi billionaires in Saudi Arabia, including 11 princes. His release was announced by the CEO of Mohammed International Development Research and Organization Companies (MIDROC) Technology…
