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THE CONSTANT roll out of Russian government plans to diversify its industrial base has now turned its focus to textile raw materials, with Moscow unveiling plans to resume large-scale production of flax and wool.

These sectors, according to agriculture minister Alexander Tkachev, have been neglected over the past 30 years, since the fall of the USSR in 1991.…

TECHNOLOGY per se is not enough to roll out connected cars in Europe, experts from the auto sector and the European Union (EU)’s executive body the European Commission agreed at last week’s ‘Connected Cars Europe 2017’ conference in Brussels. The key, speakers told the May 11 event, is connecting automobiles to their commercial and social environment and getting all actors on board.…

The Tunisian’s government decision to overhaul the system of educating and examining law students wishing to become judges has sparked widespread student dissent. Students have been boycotting exams and classes, while staging protests and demonstrations – actions that are ongoing, although a partial retreat by the government has mollified some protestors.…

Argentina’s electric car market is poised to take off this year as tax cuts and the installation of charging points spur consumer demand. This month (May), the government slashed import taxes on electric vehicles (EVs), and it’s “working on plans so that the infrastructure for these cars is in place,” Guillermo Dietrich, the national minister of transportation, told wardsauto.…

TOBACCO has been among Zimbabwe’s foreign exchange earners for decades, and the country remains Africa’s top producer of the golden leaf, despite the disruption that its agricultural sector faced in the early 2000s.

These days, the country’s cash-strapped government is supportive and is pinning its hopes on tobacco exports to spearhead an elusive economic recovery.…

WITH the economies of sub-Saharan Africa emerging from past poverty, informality and occasional chaos, the regularisation of the region’s public sector accounts is increasingly viewed as an important way of ensuring growing tax revenues are spent wisely.

As a result, accounting experts have been encouraged by growing moves to adopt International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS).…

Italian state-controlled oil and gas producer ENI has cemented its role as a major gas player in Mozambique, after further defining in 2017 the scope of its Coral FLNG (floating liquified natural gas) project in this southern African country. However, doubts are emerging that ENI will actually deliver significant volumes of Mozambique’s huge gas reserves to Italy, and consequentially the rest of Europe, as an alternative and more secure source of natural gas.…

MOROCCO is becoming an increasingly attractive destination for African students seeking to study abroad, and is now their second most popular destination on the continent, following South Africa. According to the latest statistics published by Morocco’s ministry of higher education, training and research, more than 18,000 African foreign students are currently enrolled in higher institutions in Morocco.…

A EUROPEAN Parliament hearing on the threat to employment and residential rights posed to European Union (EU) nationals by Brexit has heard how UK employers are being challenged by how this could challenge their access to key staff.

Speaking at a panel staged by the parliament’s committees on civil liberties, justice and home affairs; petitions; and employment and social affairs, Julia Onslow-Cole, the head of global immigration and legal markets at accounting firm PwC and a member of the Mayor of London’s Brexit advisory group, said employers are “struggling to identify non-UK workforce” as an official differentiation of nationalities has not been required before.…

The Russian government has told Industrial Minerals of its plans to help boost rare earth element (REE) production across Russia in upcoming years.

The government is initially setting aside USD350 million for direct and indirect support for the sector, said an official at the ministry of industry and trade.…