Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday accused his political detractors of being behind the recent distribution of alleged poisonous maize in the country. The PM stated that the distribution and seizure of the cereals just before and after he flew out for an official visit to the US two weeks ago, were propaganda meant to tarnish [...]

Foreign Policy magazine has recently published an advertising supplement which I’ve found to be fairly factual amidst the odd tidbit of propaganda. I’ve decided to omit the portions I felt weren’t entirely factual, but include the majority of the piece, as I truly believe Angola will be a developing nation to watch, given the overwhelming [...]

In an era of geopolitical tumultuousness and a future deemed uncertain with regard to investor confidence in political and economic risks, Norway has much to crow about. With international investors looking to re-enter the global market, the corporate foreign policies of Norway promote autonomous free enterprise and the security of low political risk for integration [...]

Africa is the world’s second largest and second most populous continent after Asia, covering 20% of the world’s total land area, and home to 14% of the world’s human population, yet remains the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped continent. Innovative investment has not only attempted to curb this situation, but has bore fruit for those [...]

President Kibaki, speaking Tuesday at Kenyatta International Conference Centre when he officially launched the Women Enterprise Fund, stated the Kenyan government intends to allocate more resources for onward lending to women. “In this regard an additional 500 million shillings will be allocated in the coming financial year, to boost the Women Enterprise Fund,” he said. [...]

The land of the rising sun has seen better days. Their GDP had contracted by 4 percent over the first three months of 2009, the worst quarterly performance on record. Year on year, Japan’s economy has shrunk by more than 15 percent, the steepest such decline in more than half a century. We’ve earlier reported that [...]

Resource Nationalism by its nature can be perceived as a government’s implementation of economic stability during lows in industry. The action is generally indicative of dire fiscal straights, and almost always an action mired in controversy. No greater is that the case than what has been reported today from the Associated Press. For a leader [...]

Nigeria has recently undergone a new public relations campaign aimed at attracting tourists and foreign investment. While there are many strategies stemming from developing nations and indeed the growing BRICs entrenched in the competitive world of attracting FDI, I thought it timely to refer to one devoid of international cooperation, an autonomous national initiative. The [...]

I doubt I’ll ever find as much entertainment in a political figure as that I get out of Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Besides the soap opera that is the man’s family life, his brushes with the law and his ownership of nearly all of the nation’s commercial television channels which epitomizes the phrase ‘conflict [...]

The economic climate in South Africa was jostled to an even further degree as last week’s Presidential election lurched in to the midnight hour. With the failing to achieve a two-thirds majority victory, the opposition (and indeed foreign investors) may claim some small triumph, but in fact, this could adversely affect domestic spending due to [...]