Russia is striving to lead the global blockchain movement, with President Vladimir Putin even eyeing the creation of a national cryptocurrency. But the real work to spur the world blockchain economy is being implemented far beyond the walls of the Kremlin by small groups of private software engineers, who are
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“I am proud as the Governor of Iowa State to proclaim Dr. Akinwumi Adesina as the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate.” With these words, the Governor of the State of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, officially named President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina, as the 2017 World Food Prize
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China has entered a "new era" where it should "take centre stage in the world", President Xi Jinping says. The country's rapid progress under "socialism with Chinese characteristics" shows there is "a new choice for other countries," he told the Communist Party congress. The closed-door summit determines who rules China
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At least five students and a security guard have been shot and killed in a dawn attack at a secondary school in northern Kenya. The attack was allegedly led by a former student who had been suspended, the school's head teacher said. He is accused of returning to dormitories at
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Arsenal football club manager Arsene Wenger has been duped by false reports that former football star George Weah has won Liberia's presidential election, when in fact the final result have not yet been announced. On Arsenal's website Wenger says: I would like to congratulate one of my former players, who
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Nasa leader Raila Odinga left Kenya Wednesday night for the United Kingdom where he is expected to give an address on the political situation in Kenya, reports the Daily Nation. Mr Odinga’s spokesman Dennis Onyango told Nation.co.ke that the Nasa leader will address a public forum at Chatham House, Royal
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Financial Times correspondent John Aglionby's reporting in the fast FT online column that Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote “accuses ‘Bulldozer’ Tanzanian president of scaring away investors” appears to have caused an overblown row. When Financial Times editor Lionel Barber asked Nigerian business leader Aliko Dangote in a live interview at the
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KPMG LLP’s South African unit appointed nine new executives in an attempt to restore trust in the auditing firm as clients continued to distance themselves over its involvement with the politically connected Gupta family, reports Bloomberg. Andrew Cranston, a partner and former chief operating officer of parent KPMG International, will
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Leaked e-mails of former International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Louis Moreno Ocampo reveal how the Argentinean proposed to allow Uhuru Kenyatta to have “an honourable exit” in his case at The Hague. These disclosures are part of Ocampo’s hacked e-mails to former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, who mediated the
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The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the Geneva-based group “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such
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