Zimbabwe: No Papers To Print National Currency
(BBC) - A German company which helps Zimbabwe supply its banknotes has become the latest firm
to end links amid outrage over the situation in the country. full story
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Nigeria: Dozens Die as Oil Tanker Explodes
(BBC) - Dozens of people are feared dead after a fuel tanker exploded on a busy road near the
southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt, police say. full story
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Technology Widens Rich-Poor Gap
BY PHILIP EMEAGWALI (emeagwali.com)
Oil has made us billions of dollars and fuelled our economic stability, but oil has also become the
bane of our existence. For some, it is a curse that has caused poverty and corruption, but for
others it is an essential source of untold wealth and power. full story
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Ideas, Not Money, Are Capital
BY PHILIP EMEAGWALI
I once believed that capital was another word for money, the accumulated wealth of a country or
its saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed: “Ideas are
capital. The saw a Deutsche Bank advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed: “Ideas
are capital. The rest is just money.” full story
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