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Unlike the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), there is not a multinational organisation for major gas exporters that adjusts supply to balance the market. However, the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) exists as an 11-member organisation comprising Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad …

As Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski emerged as among the nation’s best men’s college basketball coaches in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he began speaking to corporations about leadership and other topics. Those paid talks, and Krzyzewski’s drive to maintain Duke’s spot near the top of the sport, led him to …

Bibiana Martin can hardly remember a time when she didn’t live or work in the bush. The 32-year-old has been protecting South Sudan’s forests since she begged her grandfather to join the wildlife rangers at age 12, because her family could not afford to send her to school. “The officers …

South Africa’s civil aviation regulator grounded Comair’s planes indefinitely on Sunday over unresolved safety issues, in a move that also affects low-cost airline Kulula and British Airways, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. A spokesperson for the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) said it had extended a 24-hour precautionary suspension …

A 57-year-old Maryland man who had received a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery has died, the University of Maryland Medical Center said Wednesday.David Bennett died on Tuesday after his condition began to deteriorate several days ago, the medical center said. He was given palliative care and …

Kenya and Zimbabwe have both been suspended by the world’s football governing body, FIFA, owing to government interference in the operations of the national football federations. Nairobi and Harare dissolved their federations late last year and replaced them with government-appointed officials. The suspension, overshadowed for now by Russia’s dramatic banishment …

AS PART of its latest demands regarding the employment of foreigners in South Africa, the All Truck Drivers Forum (ATDF) wants the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit grace period, which expires on 31 December 2o22, to be abolished. “This is not a matter for the bargaining council but one that needs the …

By Tatenda Kunaka Private-public-partnerships in the fight against drug abuse are the panacea for youths to do something positive within their communities, Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry has said. Coventry said this yesterday as she officially opened Glories Melodies centre in Zengeza 3, Chitungwiza, a sports and …

More than 70 Ukrainian servicemen were killed by a Russian rocket attack and dozens of civilians have died in “barbaric” shelling, Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday, as a huge Russian military convoy approached the capital Kyiv. Fierce resistance on the ground has so far denied Russian President Vladimir Putin decisive …

By Gilbert Munetsi recently in LUSAKA, ZambiaThe World Boxing Council (WBC) and its subsidiary, the African Boxing Union (ABU), in a show of confidence have given Zimbabwe the chance to host two international seminars for match officials during the second quarter of this year. The prospective months set for the …