Economic, Business & Labor

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (579+ words) Wollongong-based online news outlet covering Australia and beyond. If you have anything newsworthy - a story, video or picture to share with us, please email us. Those who received new medications in the Dutch East Indies were sometimes both patients and…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1723+ words) Nigeria history runs from ancient sculptors and medieval kingdoms to British conquest and independence in 1960. A civil war and decades of military rule followed, then unbroken civilian rule since 1999. For a US reader, that past explains why Nigeria’s regions bargain…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1698+ words) The Mozambique neighbourhood is a ring of six countries along the Indian Ocean, and four of them have no sea coast. That makes Mozambique’s ports, railways, pipelines and power lines a lifeline for much of southern Africa. For a US…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1748+ words) SOUTH AFRICA · NEIGHBOURS South Africa neighbours six countries, and they form its main regional market. For US investors, the neighbourhood is a major market for South African firms and a source of water, power and workers. South Africa’s government lists…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1675+ words) RWANDA · EAST AFRICA A war next door, a US-brokered peace deal and a closed southern border shape how Rwanda deals with its region. The Rwanda neighbourhood is small on the map but crowded with history. Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1716+ words) Zimbabwe neighbours South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana, and those four borders decide how its trade, fuel, power and tourists move. It buys more than a third of its imports from South Africa and pipes fuel in from Mozambique’s port…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1356+ words) AFRICA · CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC · CENTRAL AFRICA · GUIDE The Central African Republic sits at the centre of Africa and near the bottom of the UN’s Human Development Index. It is a landlocked country of about 5.5 million people that has lived through…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1881+ words) By: Segun Dukeh Date: 6 October 2026 11:07pm WAT It is the eagle. But I would be short-changing you if I stopped there, because the same homework sheet had three more questions on it, and those three are where most adults (myself included,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1173+ words) ERITREA · COUNTRY GUIDE Eritrea explained means understanding a small, tightly controlled Red Sea state that has never held a national election since independence. It is a country of strategic geography, limited official data, and a large diaspora shaped by open-ended…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1570+ words) TANZANIA · EAST AFRICA Tanzania neighbours are eight countries that shape its trade, migration, water and infrastructure politics. Understanding these relationships explains why Dar es Salaam matters far beyond Tanzania’s own borders. Tanzania sits at the hinge of East and Southern…...