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US Treasury warns of ‘extraordinary measures’ amid fiscal cliff deadlock

December 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

Barack Obama cuts short holiday to tackle budget crisis as country faces breaching its $16.4tn debt limit

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Article, Barack Obama, Business, Democrats, Dominic Rushe, Economics, Financial, Fiscal cliff, Heidi Moore, Main section, News, Republicans, The Guardian, United States, US economy, US House of Representatives, US politics, US Senate, US taxation, World news

Fastjet takes EasyJet low-cost model into African airspace

November 19, 2012 25 Comments

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s low-cost African airline is ready for takeoff in Tanzania

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Africa, Air transport, Airline industry, Article, Business, easyJet, Gwyn Topham, Kenya, Main section, News, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Tanzania, The Observer, Travel, Uganda, World news

Greek MPs approve hefty budget cuts

November 12, 2012 Leave a Comment

Thousands gather in protest as parliament votes to pass new austerity measures in 2013 budget

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Article, Austerity, Business, Economics, Europe, European monetary union, European Union, Eurozone crisis, Financial, Financial crisis, Graeme Wearden, Greece, Helena Smith, Main section, News, The Guardian, World news

The great mobile technology leap forward

November 11, 2012 1 Comment

Sales of smart tech devices are soaring as the traditional PC declines. Observer writers look at their impact, which is already helping children to learn, spreading literacy, improving healthcare, boosting harvests in Africa – and making the web giants sit up

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Apple, Article, Business, Computing, Features, Health, Josephine Moulds, Juliette Garside, Main section, Mobile phones, Retail industry, Rupert Neate, Samsung, Smartphones, Tablet computers, Technology, Telecoms, The Observer, Zoe Wood

Striking South Africa platinum miners agree deal with Lonmin

September 19, 2012 29 Comments

Miners to return to work after pay rise ends five weeks of bitter industrial action during which 45 people were killed

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Africa, Article, Business, David Smith, Financial, Lonmin, Main section, Mining, News, South Africa, The Guardian, World news

Striking South African miners cut wage demands

September 18, 2012 1 Comment

Hopes rise for end to bitter dispute that has left 45 people dead as Lonmin closes in on deal with platinum miners

Filed Under: Global Tagged With: Africa, Article, Business, Josephine Moulds, Lonmin, Mining, News, South Africa, World news

How one co-operative is lending to support fair trade farmers

September 17, 2012 1 Comment

Shared Interest is defying conventional lending prudence in order to provide fair trade farmers’ and producers’ groups

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Article, Banking, Blogposts, Business, Co-operative Group, Co-operatives and mutuals, Social enterprise blog, Social enterprise network, Social enterprises, Society

Lonmin set to breach loan agreements over South African mine strike

August 22, 2012 1 Comment

Company warns investors shutdown of mine, where police shot 34 workers, will lead to debt covenants being breached

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Africa, Article, Business, Financial, Lonmin, Main section, Mining, News, Rupert Neate, South Africa, The Guardian, World news

South African miners’ families back Julius Malema’s call for nationalisation

August 19, 2012 29 Comments

Jacob Zuma is criticised as former ANC youth leader says the president sided with mine owner when 34 were killed

Filed Under: News Tagged With: ANC (African National Congress), Article, Business, David Smith, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Lonmin, Main section, Mining, News, Protest, South Africa, The Observer, World news

South African police ‘shot miners to protect themselves’

August 18, 2012 1 Comment

Police chief says officers opened fire and killed 34 strikers because they were being charged at with dangerous weapons

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Africa, Article, Business, David Smith, Mining, News, South Africa, Unions, World news

The Marikana action is a strike by the poor against the state and the haves

August 18, 2012 1 Comment

The shooting at Lonmin’s Marikana mine exposes weaknesses at the heart of South African society

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Africa, Article, Business, Comment, Comment & debate, Comment is free, Justice Malala, Main section, Mining, South Africa, The Guardian, World news

Miners’ wives rage at South African police brutality after ‘massacre’

August 18, 2012 34 Comments

Women performing apartheid-era toyi-toyi dance condemn mine company as they wait for news of victims of police shootings

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Africa, ANC (African National Congress), Article, Business, David Smith, Features, International, Jacob Zuma, Lonmin, Main section, Mining, News, South Africa, World news

South African police shoot dead striking miners

August 18, 2012 1 Comment

Up to 18 people killed at Lonmin platinum mine where strike over pay has escalated into alleged turf war between unions

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Africa, Article, Business, David Smith, Employment, Global development, International, Main section, Mining, News, South Africa, Terry Macalister, The Guardian, Unions, World news

Sudan reaches agreement on aid access to rebel-controlled areas

August 12, 2012 1 Comment

Deal between Sudan and South Sudan paves way for relief supplies into two border states for first time in more than a year

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: Africa, African Union, Aid, Article, Business, Commodities, Conflict and development, Food security, Global development, Joseph Kony, Middle East and North Africa, News, Oil, Peter Moszynski, Refugees, South Sudan, South Sudan: one year on, Sudan, World news

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