A significant build-up in global oil inventories is projected to trigger a substantial drop in crude oil prices over the coming months. This outlook emerges even as Nigeria’s landmark Dangote refinery announces ambitious plans to become the world’s largest processing facility, betting on long-term regional demand. Dangote’s Refinery Expansion
A significant build-up in global oil inventories is projected to trigger a substantial drop in crude oil prices over the coming months. This outlook emerges even as Nigeria’s landmark Dangote refinery announces ambitious plans to become the world’s largest processing facility, betting on long-term regional demand. Dangote’s Refinery Expansion
The European Commission has granted unconditional antitrust clearance for the proposed $1.44 billion merger between American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) Holdings and the UK’s Dowlais Group (a specialist engineering group focused on the automotive sector, whose businesses are GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy). This significant regulatory milestone moves the
The European Commission has granted unconditional antitrust clearance for the proposed $1.44 billion merger between American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) Holdings and the UK’s Dowlais Group (a specialist engineering group focused on the automotive sector, whose businesses are GKN Automotive and GKN Powder Metallurgy). This significant regulatory milestone moves the
History teaches that: Pandemics return, wars re-emerge, economies rise and fall, and new technologies disrupt established orders. While the pattern of global events echoes across centuries, artificial intelligence (AI) marks a new inflection point. Now, disruption is cognitive and social at scale, altering how nations engage, how economies grow, and
The South African government says it has received distress calls from 17 South African men who are trapped in the war-torn Donbas region of Ukraine after being lured to join mercenary forces under the pretext of lucrative employment contracts. The men, aged between 20 and 39, have appealed for assistance
US President Donald Trump has launched a blistering attack on South Africa, saying the country “shouldn’t even be in the G’s anymore” and declaring he will not attend the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit to be hosted in Johannesburg later this month (https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-11-04-gauteng-ready-to-host-g20-summit-says-lesufi/). Speaking at a business forum in
US President Donald Trump has launched a blistering attack on South Africa, saying the country “shouldn’t even be in the G’s anymore” and declaring he will not attend the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit to be hosted in Johannesburg later this month (https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-11-04-gauteng-ready-to-host-g20-summit-says-lesufi/). Speaking at a business forum in