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...As it gathered resources to help finance the bond payment, last week President William Ruto’s government gained access to nearly $1bn in additional lending from the IMF, and received a $210mn loan from the...
...The currency, which fell one-fifth against the dollar last year, rose about 4 per cent on Thursday, reflecting relief among investors after President William Ruto’s government sold a $1.5bn dollar bond this...
...“If we look back to 2022, debt-distress concerns were at their height, pushing many of these economies into unsafe territories,” said William Jackson, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics...
...Ivory Coast reopened African debt markets last month when it sold the continent’s first dollar bond in almost two years....
...The cave’s recorded history begins in earnest two centuries ago, with the arrival of Reverend William Buckland....
...Banga was in the Ivory Coast and Kenya this month and will also meet government representatives in the EU, Japan, China and Latin America in the coming weeks....
...“In Como recently I gave a lecture about the myth of the solitary composer in his ivory tower,” Bryars says....
...Chinese classical pianist Lang Lang tinkled the ivories in accompaniment with Nicole Scherzinger, former leader of Los Angeles girl group The Pussycat Dolls....
...It was a statement piece without the weight, price, or provenance of jewellery, and its leaf motif grounded the rest of Princess Catherine’s ensemble, the traditional robes and mantels she and Prince William...
...Mears says “[women’s] approach was quite different from what was going on with a number of the male-driven modernist movements and the William Morris phenomenon....
...In After the Ivory Tower Falls, he calls the current structure “a fake meritocracy rigged to make half of America hate it”....
...For example, getting Prince William on a Brompton bike in Shanghai for a photo. I’d been told this book described spats with Ritchie, who Butler-Adams replaced as chief executive....
...Remember Prince William in his Union Jack-printed style?...
...From $27mn of payments to an agent to bribe officials in Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea, Glencore secured profits more than triple of that....
...Some abolitionist activists, among them Benjamin Brodie and William Wilberforce, then suggested that Crummell should enter the university....
...His report anticipated an era of near-slavery on the coffee plantations of Peru that paralleled King Leopold II of Belgium’s despoliation of the ivory-rich Congo Free State....
...Current regulars include Kazuo Ishiguro, William Boyd, Lady Antonia Fraser and Andrew Marr. “Our members publish around 800 books a year,” Marshall reveals....
...William exists nevertheless, and proves himself to be a dab hand at preparing sashimi, among other things....
...In the summer of 1944 the musician Alma Stone Williams was invited to attend the school’s Summer Music Institute; she was one of the first African-American students to integrate openly in a white college...
...Her paintings are unique, and yet sit within the romantic English landscape tradition that zigzags from Richard Long and Paul Nash to Turner, and the pastoral visions of Samuel Palmer to William Blake,”...
...Even more shocking is the case of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who wrote 22 films for director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, but it’s Merchant Ivory that is celebrated, not Merchant Ivory Jhabvala....
...Thus, the Merchant-Ivory film of EM Forster’s A Room with a View, for which Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won a screenwriting Oscar, appeared in 1985-86 as Margaret Thatcher shook up Britain....
...Particularly striking were a black leather dress with soft, puffed-up shoulders, and a pair of ivory dresses with hand-knotted and beaded backs....
...Mazara’s ivory stones contain specks of eternity....
...Because of the spread of coronavirus, Unicef pulled him off a shoot in Ivory Coast in early March. And a documentary he was due to film with comedy duo Ant and Dec was also postponed....
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