The African Union launched the continent’s first credit rating agency on Wednesday, seeking to provide an alternative to the “big three” global ratings agencies as debt burdens weigh on many African economies. The Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) — the creation of which African leaders endorsed in 2018 — was launched at a ceremony attended by African officials in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, where it will be based.
Cyril Vetter, the songwriter who won a landmark termination rights ruling in the US courts last year, recently told judges on the US Supreme Court to ignore all the hyperbole and doomsaying now being pushed out by the major music
Academy Award nominee Liam Neeson has become the grizzled (complimentary) face of aged action thriller cinema thanks to his role in the 2008 modern no-nonsense classic, Taken. While there had been several before him, Neeson’s elderly (curiously, he was only
