Article: Africa fears contagion from credit crisis woes.(Business Report Weekend)

Article: Fuel Prices Drop at Last in East Africa. ...
African Business;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Retail fuel prices have dropped in Uganda and Kenya in recent weeks. On November 22, most ... leaded fuel so the Kenyan programme is something of a breakthrough in East Africa. The plan was first considered in the 1970s but a lack of funding stopped ...

Article: S. Africa Hikes Fuel Prices To Prop Up Its ...
The Washington Post;  August 13, 1988 ;     290 words ... ... shore up the economy, including a 15 percent increase in fuel prices and higher surcharges on luxury imports. Consumer and business groups complained that the increase in fuel prices would halt a recent decline in the inflation rate, which ...

Article: Sharp Increase in Fuel Prices in S. Africa
Xinhua English Newswire;  April 23, 1999 ;     342 words ...Petrol prices would increase by as much as 18 cents (three U.S. cents) per liter on May 5 in South Africa, Minerals and Energy Minister Penuell Maduna announced Friday. He told reporters in Pretoria that the exact price hike would ...

Article: More holes than belt? On top of the ravages of the global ...
African Business;  August 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...The South African economy, Africa's biggest, appears to be defying ... were when they predicted that South Africa, and most of the rest of the continent ... effects of the crash and not even South Africa's diversified economy has anywhere ...

Article: 23 SEPTEMBER 2008 SYDNEY (Pacnews) ----- Africa will take ...
PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association;  September 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... population of Papua New Guinea live below the poverty line, compared to 41 per cent in sub-Sahara Africa, the report says Papua New Guinea is on Africa standards, if not higher, and it is quite worrying for Australia, given they are our nearest ...

Article: South Africa: Thousands of New Aircraft Despite ...
TendersInfo;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Byline: shabnam05 AIRBUS believes demand for new aircraft will continue to grow despite fuel price increases, with air traffic doubling worldwide in the next 15 years. Airbus director of technical marketing, John Blachfield, speaking in France this week, said the fact that the price of fuel had

Article: You Don't Need to Own a Car to Be Worried about Escalating ...
Business Wire;  February 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... impact of escalating fuel prices is being acutely ... Malaysia and South Africa, high levels of ... extremely affected by fuel prices (59% and 57 ... 58%) and South Africa (53%). Of all ... feeling the affect of fuel prices - 80 percent versus ...