CAIRO / WAM The UAE labour market is one of the most flexible markets at the regional and global scale, securing jobs to more than five million people from different nationalities in 2017 and receiving 1.35 million highly skilled workers for the private sector, stated Nasser bin Thani Al Hamli, UAE Minister of Human Resources and Emiratisation. According to the …

KHARTOUM / WAM Since it began operations in March 1975, the Arab Bank for Economic Development of Africa (Badea) provided over $5.8 billion in development finance for sub-Saharan African countries, according to a statement on its website. At the end of March, after just over 13 years of operations, BADEA had made commitments of $5,824.77 million, covering finance for 653 …

Bloomberg US stocks climbed with Asian equities as investors looked to China’s President Xi Jinping to calm a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies. Treasuries fell with gold. The S&P 500 Index rose after last week’s 1.4 percent tumble, and strength in semiconductors, software and technology hardware pushed the Nasdaq 100 Index and Nasdaq Composite Index up more …