Hozpitality Group announces signing up with Premier Advisory Consultancy as Franchisee partners for Maldives
Raj Bhatt, CEO, Hozpitality.com said, "Premier Advisory Consultancy, based in Singapore, run by Bernard and Patrick will be our partners for the Maldives market and all business will be handled by them". Bernard Columba is the CEO of Premier Advisory Consultancy, which focus on Talent Management, Human Resource Consultancy and Hospitality Management. With a Degree in Human Resource Management & Training, Bernard has been involved in the luxury hospitality industry for over 20 years. Patrick Ho is the Co-Founder of Premier Advisory Consultancy, which focus on Talent Management, Human Resource Consultancy and Hospitality Management. Hozpitality.com offers a selection of best Hotel Management Institutes, Schools and Universities and Hotel management Courses.
Source:The North Africa Journal
August 04, 2021 14:37 UTC
Radars deployed against arsonists - General news - ANSAMed
But the system is ready, tested since the 1980s in North Africa, but updated with the techological progress of the past 40 years. With this technology it is possible to control the potential targets of arsonists from one operations room. The video localization with thermal imaging reaches a distance of 12-15 km while radar coverage reaches a maximum of 50 km. The station can also be centralized in a large operations room that is able to monitor many radar units. Subsequently, with the detection of triggers, it will be easier to identify arsonists who will still be in the area.
Source:The North Africa Journal
August 04, 2021 14:26 UTC
Carmel: Berber & Q team to open new restaurant in Queen’s Park
T he team behind Berber & Q and its Exmouth Market sister Shawarma bar say they are “coming of age” as they announce plans for a new London restaurant, set to open in early October. The Katz brothers, Josh and Paul, and Mattia Bianchi, will open Carmel on Lonsdale Road in Queen’s Park, promising an all-day menu and a 60-strong wine list. Similarly to Berber, the food will draw on influences from north Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, much of it cooked in a wood-fired oven. “I think people might think of this as a more grown-up version of what we’ve done to date, dare I say a coming of age. Delivered weekly Email Sign up Sign up I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard.
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August 04, 2021 14:03 UTC
UPDATE 1-Gulf buy now, pay later firm Tabby raises $50 mln, to speed up expansion
(Writes through, adds CEO comments)DUBAI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Buy now, pay later firm Tabby will accelerate expansion plans into new Arab markets after raising $50 million in its latest funding round, giving it a $300 million valuation, it said on Wednesday. Like other buy now, pay later firms, Tabby offers short-term credit for online and in-store purchases at zero interest to the consumer. The bulk of its revenue is earned via merchant fees though consumers are charged penalty fees if they miss a payment. The Series B funding round included investment by Global Founders Capital, Saudi venture capital firm STV, Delivery Hero and Mubadala Investment Capital. To date, Tabby says it has raised more than $130 million, including $50 million in debt which it announced in June.
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August 04, 2021 12:43 UTC
Firefighters Battle Major Blazes In Russia, Southeastern Europe, Turkey
Unusually high summer temperatures and strong winds have stoked deadly wildfires in parts of Russia, Turkey, and southeastern Europe, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage and prompting the evacuation of thousands of people. Pushed to the limit, Russian emergency services received additional help from the military to fight devastating forest fires in the east of the country. In Bulgaria, two forestry workers were killed and another one was injured on August 4 as forest fires multiply across the country. Two people also died in forest fires in Albania and Kosovo. Extreme weather across southern Europe has fueled wildfires in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Albania, Kosovo, and across the Mediterranean region.
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August 04, 2021 12:11 UTC
SPL!NG Movie Review: Africa & I
While a North African country, Morocco and its people seem to feel more at home with the Arab states rather than the African continent as Zolati explains. Warned against travelling through conflict zones, the intrepid explorer makes his way from North Africa through West Africa across to East Africa, making South Africa his final destination. Having arrived in South Africa, Zolati connected with a number of SAFTA-winning film people including co-director Chris Green (Chasing the Sun) in order to make this 90 minute Africa & I documentary possible. Using on-the-ground coverage of destinations including Morocco, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa it’s a beautiful and stirring mash up of people, cultures and places. Labia Home Screen enables viewers to watch the theatre’s carefully curated content from the comfort of their home from anywhere in South Africa.
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August 04, 2021 12:11 UTC
LIBYA: Vandalism threatens large man-made river that supplies the country
A major problem is threatening the water supply in Libya. It is part of Libya’s Great Man Made River, the result of a pharaonic project initiated by former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. pic.twitter.com/hWiIi2cC2u — UNICEF Libya (@UnicefLibya) August 1, 2021This project, which is now at a standstill, was considered the most important water supply project in the world. Only 98 of the 108 production wells in the Tazerbo field were in use in 1991, the rest being in reserve. And the heat wave is moving eastwards, causing fires in countries relatively close to Libya, including Greece and Turkey.
Source:The North Africa Journal
August 04, 2021 11:23 UTC
Gulf buy now, pay later firm Tabby raises $50 mln, to speed up expansion
DUBAI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Buy now, pay later firm Tabby will accelerate expansion plans into new Arab markets after raising $50 million in its latest funding round, giving it a $300 million valuation, it said on Wednesday. Like other buy now, pay later firms, Tabby offers short-term credit for online and in-store purchases at zero interest to the consumer. The bulk of its revenue is earned via merchant fees though consumers are charged penalty fees if they miss a payment. The Series B funding round included investment by Global Founders Capital, Saudi venture capital firm STV, Delivery Hero and Mubadala Investment Capital. To date, Tabby says it has raised more than $130 million, including $50 million in debt which it announced in June.
Source:The North Africa Journal
August 04, 2021 11:20 UTC
Morocco calls for reconciliation, Algerian regime shies away & unleashes its media outlets
Taken by surprise by the new call for dialogue launched by King Mohammed VI, the greedy, feckless and oppressive Algerian rulers shied away and unleashed the state-controlled media against Morocco and its institutions. The daily cited in this regard the Pegasus spyware, the remarks of Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN Omar Hilale on Kabylie, ignoring the King’s commitments to the Algerian people that Morocco will never cause them any evil or problems. “Nor will my country put you in peril or under threat. That is because what affects you affects us, and what befalls you harms us”, said the Monarch in his Throne Day speech, underlining the benefits and positive impacts of the opening of borders on both countries. Chief of the Polisario armed militia was also transferred by Algerian military rulers to Spain to receive treatment against coronavirus.
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August 04, 2021 11:03 UTC
Africa Deal Roundup: 15 deal, fundraising and exit announcements in July
This article is published in association with Africa Private Equity News, a one-stop source for industry-related information. Stay up to date by downloading the free Africa Private Equity News app: Android | iOS | www.africaprivateequitynews.com. ***A selection of African private equity deal, fundraising and exit announcements that came across our desk in July 2021. Helios Investment Partners, the Africa-focused private investment firm, will acquire a majority stake in a diversified group of medtech companies in Morocco. Tana Africa Capital announced an investment into Africa Protein Holdings Limited, a Mauritius-based holding company that includes Quality Meat Packers and Anirita Poultry Farm.
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August 04, 2021 09:56 UTC
63 per cent more illegal migrants have reached Spain so far this year
In addition, the figure does not include the 10,000 or so who entered the north African enclave of Ceuta in May after bypassing the border fences via the beach and the sea. For this reason, the government reports that 93 per cent of all known arrivals were by sea, with over half of them (7,623) arriving in the Canary Islands after Atlantic crossings from north-west Africa. In relation to the Mediterranean route, heading for the Spanish mainland and the Balearics, the increase has been less spectacular but the total is still 26.4 per cent higher than at this point last year, having reached 6,115. At the same time, those arriving by sea in Ceuta number 346 as opposed to the 66 reported in the first half of 2020, while in Melilla successful sea crossings have so far not been reported this year. Image: Ministerio del Interior
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August 04, 2021 08:48 UTC
As Covid-19 surges in Tunisia, oxygen is in short supply
The profitable enterprise that is growing online has prompted citizens to call on authorities for intervention. Believe me, with everything," said Abdou Mzoughi, 43, whose nearly 80-year-old mother died June 26 from Covid-19 after he spent six days trying, but failing, to get the lifesaving oxygen treatment she needed. "We were looking for a bed with oxygen in any hospital," he said. "The oxygen is exhausted. Now, the North African nation consumes 10 times the amount, between 230,000 to 240,000 liters of oxygen per day.
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August 04, 2021 08:07 UTC
As COVID-19 surges in Tunisia, oxygen is in short supply
FILE - In this June 28, 2021, file photo, a COVID-19 patient breathes with the help of an oxygen mask at the Iben El Jazzar hospital in Kairouan, Tunisia. As Tunisia faces a surge of COVID-19 cases, demand for life-saving oxygen has grown higher than the supply, leaving patients desperate and family members angry at the government as they say they are forced to find oxygen on their own. As Tunisia faces a surge of COVID-19 cases, demand for life-saving oxygen has grown higher than the supply, leaving patients desperate and family members angry at the government as they say they are forced to find oxygen on their own. (AP Photo/Aimen Othmani, File)KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AP) — As Tunisia faces a surge of COVID-19 cases, demand for life-saving oxygen has grown higher than the supply, leaving patients desperate and family members angry at the government as they say they are forced to find oxygen on their own. Authorities have now ordered private clinics to contribute oxygen until there is a return to the normal oxygen supply pattern.
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August 04, 2021 06:56 UTC
Jared Kushner's hidden genius? To make terrible decisions – yet keep failing upwards | Arwa Mahdawi
According to mysterious sources said to be “familiar with the plan”, Kushner is preparing to launch a Miami-based investment firm called Affinity Partners. While he might have the charisma of a soggy tissue, Mr Ivanka Trump seems to have a knack for failing upwards. Funnily enough, the Qatar Investment Authority was a major investor in Brookfield and, at the time, Kushner was backing a blockade on the Gulf kingdom. This was all a complete coincidence, and there was no intention of persuading Kushner to reverse his support for the blockade, Qatar has stressed. Still, if Kushner keeps running into coincidences like that one imagines his investment firm will do very well indeed.
Source:The North Africa Journal
August 04, 2021 06:00 UTC
Civil servant found with half a billion in 4 banks
Economy Civil servant found with half a billion in 4 banksThe Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission offices in Nairobi. A senior official at a public roads agency risks losing half a billion shillings stashed in 22 bank accounts, 27 properties, shares in multiple companies and schools linked to kickbacks from contractors to the State. She added that Mr Musila failed to demonstrate a violation of his rights by the EACC’s detectives, triggering investigation on Mr Musila who is in-charge of Kerra’s operations in Kilifi and Mombasa. Mr Musila, however, maintained that the banks held cash meant to pay staff and finance general office administration. Mr Musila previously worked for Ministry of Public Works after graduating from the University of Nairobi in 1993.
Source:The North Africa Journal
August 04, 2021 04:18 UTC