Page 55 - Control Risks News Today

Dealmaking activity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) dropped in the second half of 2020 (H2 2020), when compared to the second half of 2019 (H2 2019) and year-on-year, deals were also down in both volume and value when compared to 2019. According to Baker McKenzie’s analysis of Refinitiv data, M&A transactions dropped in SSA in H2 … [Read more…]

An investigation by our reporters, including reported cases in the media between 2018 and 2020, show that those kidnapped were in Nigeria for business and diplomatic activities. The cases exclude many abductions that have not been reported because families of the victims preferred to sort out their troubles without involving the state. While some of the victims were carefully monitored by their abductors ahead of picking them up, others were seized by the kidnappers on highways. Some of the kid...

Toxic Spills in Venezuela Offer a Bleak Vision of the End of Oil Bloomberg 12/15/2020 Fabiola Zerpa, Peter Millard and Andrew Rosati (Bloomberg) -- Tropical rains have washed away most outward traces of the oil spill that ravaged Rio Seco this fall. But the fishing village in the shadow of Venezuela’s main refining hub bears the scars of deeper contamination. Popular Searches Boats with oil-stained hulls must now travel further out into the Caribbean to make a catch. Crude...

December 14, 2020 published at 5:42 AMReuters A handout photo. Vietnams President and Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the opening ceremony of a central committee meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec 14, 2020. Phuong Hoa via Reuters HANOI  - As Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party started a week-long meeting on Monday (Dec 7), discussion has intensified over the top leadership that will emerge and set the tone for the next five years in the fast-developing Southeast Asian c...

Sectors have been open open for years chris just give me a quick yes or no because we believe the interview here is the trade war now over. i can sum it up in one word i hope so but theres a lot of skin in the game thats already got its already taken place i will just have to wait and see but hopefully trump has what he wants like a believer their big hopeful maybe from chris toroids on that one from control risks thank you. and i stand business a few a. touch comes to a. compliment. the tremend...

Of the computers is ongoing. so with confirmation that the feds believe the bombs were made in tamerlan tsarnaevs home, clearly the focus is very much intensifying on the widow, katherine russell. >> shepard: catherine herridge, thank you. lets get inside into the investigation, the criminal defense attorney and form f.b.i. investigator bill daily are here. bill is the senior vice president of control risks, which is an international risk management firm. this investigation is expanding. >> abso...