Author: Steven Sahiounie

The CBJ projected that the national economy would achieve a real GDP growth rate of at least 2.6 per cent in 2023

The armed man who broke into a police station in Yerevan has been detained by Armenia’s special police force, a TASS correspondent reported from the site. The TASS correspondent reported earlier that special police force troops had entered the building of the police station through the back door. Armenia’s Interior Ministry Spokesman Narek Sarkisyan has confirmed that the man was detained. According to the spokesman, no one was hurt during the detention. The press service of the Armenian interior ministry reported earlier in the day that three armed men broke into a police station in Yerevan. Two of them got…

“Raising the debate around currency right now causes jitters among investors. Tomorrow, investors are going to wait and see before investing,” Ba told journalists in Dakar

Israel will not approve UN food convoys to the northern Gaza Strip, the head of the United Nations relief agency for Palestinians said Sunday. “Despite the tragedy unfolding under our watch, the Israeli Authorities informed the UN that they will no longer approve any UNRWA food convoys to the north,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on X. “This is outrageous and makes it intentional to obstruct lifesaving assistance during a man-made famine,” he added. Israel accused 12 of the UNRWA’s 30,000 employees of involvement in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, which killed nearly 1,200 people. Several Western countries, including the…

The evaluation is based on countries’ adeptness in resource management to ensure prosperity for their populace

Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, hosted Vivian Balakrishnan, the Foreign Minister of Singapore, on March 23rd during his official visit to Egypt spanning the 22nd and 23rd of March

The sub-index for mining and quarrying activity, which accounts for 61.4% of the index weight, rose to 98.2 points from 98 points in December last year

Moody’s Ratings (Moody’s) has on Saturday changed the outlook on the Government of Tunisia to stable from negative and affirmed the Caa2 long-term foreign-currency and local-currency issuer ratings.

The narrowing was due to a jump in oil revenues (+15% m/m to KD16.4 billion YTD) and higher non-oil revenues (+24% m/m to KD1.45 billion)

The World Bank Group had mobilized $41 billion of private capital for emerging markets and raised another $42 billion from the private sector for bond issuance last year