VIENNA / WAM Over $320 million worth of new funding to the benefit of developing countries across the world, has been approved by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID). This came during OFID’s Governing Board 159th session held in Vienna recently during which OFID Director General Suleiman Jasser Al-Herbish noted that the loans underline the international organisation’s commitment to ...

ABU DHABI / Reuters Telecoms group Etisalat terminated a management agreement with its Nigerian arm and given the business time to phase out the Etisalat brand in Nigeria, the chief executive of Etisalat International said on Monday. Nigerian regulators intervened last week to save Etisalat Nigeria from collapse after talks with its lenders to renegotiate a $1.2 billion loan failed. ...

Bloomberg The European Court of Justice may be able to make rulings that apply to the U.K. for a “limited” interim period after Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said in yet another sign of the government’s softening of the country’s stance on Brexit. “He said the transition rules could involve the ECJ for a ...