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HIV/Aids, Lassa fever, and tuberculosis are just some of the communicable diseases that African health experts are used to dealing with, and many realized the danger of the coronavirus as soon as they saw the case counts rising in China and Europe. Yet, of all...

By Alex Longley , Sherry Su , and Javier Blas Dated Brent benchmark assessed at its lowest since 1999 European, African and Asian crudes trade in single-digits The prices of actual barrels of multiple crude streams in Europe, Asia and Africa have plunged to as little as...

By Cristin Flanagan, Riley Griffin, Robert Langreth April 16, 2020, 11:00 AM SHARE More than 200 different programs have been launched to develop vaccines and therapeutics to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. From well-known industry giants such as Gilead Sciences Inc. to Johnson &...

By Yomi Kazeem Nigeria has recorded only two confirmed cases of Covid-19 but the global pandemic’s growing impact on its economy is far more significant. As oil prices tank while global demand drops drastically in the wake of the outbreak, Nigeria’s economy is being caught in...

by Anjli Raval and David Sheppard in London Oil prices crashed by as much as 30 per cent after Saudi Arabia fired the first shots in a price war, in crude’s biggest one-day fall since the early 1990s Gulf war. Riyadh’s threat to discount its crude...

David Stanway, Kate Kelland SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - A growing number of discharged coronavirus patients in China and elsewhere are testing positive after recovering, sometimes weeks after being allowed to leave the hospital, which could make the epidemic harder to eradicate. On Wednesday, the Osaka prefectural...

Nigerians home and Abroad reacted widely with the recent news of United States President Donald John Trump reviewing a Homeland Security Department recommendation that at least some of the visa restrictions be expanded to include Tanzania, Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria and Sudan, Bloomberg...

Donald Trump’s nationalism makes him amazingly easy to provoke into conflict Janan Ganesh Donald Trump is a deceptively conventional US president of the 21st century. Elected to unpick his nation’s entanglements in the Middle East, he has served to deepen and extend...

The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land Patri Friedman started Pronomos Capital, with more money from Peter Thiel, to establish mini-city-states. By Lizette Chapman Patri Friedman is sick of the jokes about floating tax havens. About a decade ago, the former Google software engineer (and...

KEY POINTS Travis Kalanick could stage a remarkable comeback like Steve Jobs, have a strong second act like Marc Andreessen, or become an eccentric billionaire like Paul Allen. But like most entrepreneurs — and most people — he probably had one big break, and...