Nigeria’s Regional Development Commissions Got US$1.9 Billion Last Year. One Zone Got Nothing.
The president has ordered money released to the newest of seven commissions. It is the one left out of the...
September 14, 2026Section
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Taxes in Belize 2026 — What Is Really Untaxed, and What Quietly Is Not
Belize charges 25 percent on local income above BZD 29,000, 12.5 percent sales tax and 1 percent land tax. What...
September 14, 2026
Nigeria Told Drivers to Switch to Gas. Then the Nigeria CNG Price Rose 65% in a Year.
The state oil company says it is pushing more gas to filling stations. Drivers who converted their engines still pay...
September 14, 2026
Cost of Living Balneario Camboriu 2026 — What Brazil’s Tallest Beach Town Asks
Rent, condominium fees, power, food and buses in Brazil's most expensive square metre. Priced in reais and dollars, and how...
September 14, 2026
An Agusto Rating Is Not About Returns. Nigerian Fund Managers Chase One Anyway.
A Lagos agency grades investment managers on how they are run, not on what they earn. For firms competing for...
September 14, 2026
Is Ghana Safe for Expats — What the Road Toll and the Crime Numbers Show
Road deaths, a northern curfew and a level-two advisory. What is Ghana safe really means for a person living there...
September 14, 2026
The Dangote Refinery IPO Opens Today, Africa’s Largest Share Sale, for 3.3% of the Company
Aliko Dangote is selling a sliver of the refinery that ended Nigeria's dependence on imported petrol. The sliver alone is...
September 14, 2026
Kenya Fuel Prices Hold Steady for a Month, and a Third of What Drivers Pay Is Tax
The regulator froze pump prices for the cycle to 14 October. Petrol in Nairobi costs about US$1.65 a litre, and...
September 14, 2026
Is Egypt Safe for Expats — What the Road Data and the Advisory Maps Show
Road deaths, advisory maps and a homicide rate from 2017. What is Egypt safe actually means for a person living...
September 14, 2026
The Jamaica Remittance Market Takes In US$3.5 Billion a Year. Africa Sends Almost None of It.
Jamaicans abroad sent home US$3.49bn last year, and nearly all of it came from North America. A Nairobi company wants...
September 14, 2026
A Drone Hit a Saudi Pipeline, Oil Prices Passed US$108, and Brazilian Banks Paid for It
Brent passed US$108 after Saudi Arabia shut a pipeline built to avoid the Gulf. In São Paulo, Petrobras rose while...
September 14, 2026
Brazil Supreme Court Meets Tuesday to Decide Whether One of Its Own Can Be Investigated
A collapsed bank is alleged to have paid millions to a judge's wife. On Tuesday his ten colleagues must decide...
September 14, 2026
Two Brazil Runoff Polls Put Different Men in Front. The Difference Is a Telephone.
One survey knocks on doors, the other telephones. That single choice explains almost everything separating two results that looked like...
September 14, 2026
Falkland Islands Jet Claim Collapses: Four Typhoons Out, Four In, in Late 2027
Four fronts were reported on Monday as one escalation over the South Atlantic. Each turns out to be older, smaller...
September 14, 2026
The Dark Horse Forensic Report Clears the Bolsonaro Film’s Money Without Tracing Its Source
A film about Jair Bolsonaro opened in America last week. In Brazil, police are asking who paid for it, and...
September 14, 2026
Sixteen Former Supreme Court Justices Are Left Alive in Brazil. Thirteen Signed. Three Did Not.
Almost everyone alive who ever sat on Brazil's highest court signed a public demand for an investigation. The abstentions are...
September 14, 2026
The Kast Cadem Grade Is 3.4 Out of 7, and in Chile That Is a Failing Mark
Six months ago he won the largest vote in Chilean history. A single decision on fuel prices in March explains...
September 14, 2026
The Right of Reply Belongs to Colombia’s Opposition Parties, Not to Gustavo Petro Himself
Colombia wrote the rule in 2018 to shield opposition parties from presidential television. It gives the airtime to parties, and...
September 14, 2026
Peru Homicides Reached 248 in Seven Weeks. The Real Figure Is Probably Nearly Double.
The number comes from a death registry rather than the police, and registries run weeks behind. Nearly three in four...
September 14, 2026
The Economist Milei Editorial Asks Argentina for More Liberalisation, Not Less
The magazine credits inflation falling from 161% to 34%, then presses for two specific moves. Argentine coverage kept the insult...
September 14, 2026