Month: January 2023

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Vision becomes reality with willpower and knowledge

Our guest today, Tsgerieda Gebrehiwet, is a passionate painter and pharmacist. As a student, in addition to her education, she spent a lot of her time helping out in her family’s business.

• Would you please introduce yourself to our readers?

I was born and raised in Dongolo Lae’lay, had my primary school education there, and attended junior and secondary school in Gindae, which is around 4 km from Dongolo Lae’lay. I went to Sawa as a member of the 23rd round and then joined the College of Health Sciences in Asmara and studied pharmacology. Now, I am working as a pharmacist at Halibet Referral Hospital.

• What inspired you to be a pharmacist?

Since my childhood, I have had the desire to study health. When I joined the College of Health Sciences, I became very eager to study medicine and was attracted to pharmacology. I started thinking about the possibility of opening my own drug store and giving clinical service to my clients, and I figured out that to fulfill this dream I needed to join the Department of Pharmacy. And when I joined the department I loved it.

• Tell us about your academic background.

I was an excellent student, if I may so so. My parents understood very well the importance of education and always told us to focus on education. I was paying attention to my studies while at the same time helping my family at their store and cafe in Dongolo. My elder brother used to look after the shop but after he left Dongolo I took full responsibility for running the business. Since then I’ve been more responsible in managing my time. I was very busy in the daytime and, so, had to reschedule my study time to night time. And that made me a very responsible person.

• You are also an artist…

That’s right. Art is also something that has always been inside me. From my childhood, I’ve always wanted to be an artist and I started off by drawing with a pencil. I always drew my own and my classmates’ drawing assignments in my academy class starting from elementary school. And as I got older that passion for art grew inside me. When I went to college, I started to take art classes at Satreb Art Institute on top of my studies in pharmacy. However, I couldn’t cope with the intensity of my college studies and schedule, so I dropped out of the art class for a while and waited until I completed my college studies. In 2016, I started taking classes in art again and attended for two and half years and graduated with a diploma.

• How do you manage to do two jobs?

My first career choice is pharmacy; so, it is given priority. In the evening, I work as a part-timer at a drugstore. So I have to spend all the rest of my time in my painting studio at home. And I manage my time by dividing it into all of these tasks.

• Tell us more about your paintings.

Most of the time I use pencil drawing, and I like drawing people’s portraits. I like to remake old and damaged images that are difficult to scan, and I do this according to the requests of my clients. It’s super-realism type. I also use acrylic painting and watercolor, and my paintings reflect Eritrean history, culture, and tradition. In some of my works, I try to create a fusion of modern and Eritrean cultures. In addition, I also paint signboards and billboards of companies and spiritual paintings at churches.

• Who is your model?

For sure it’s my elder brother, Dawit, an aeronautical engineer. Like me, he went through the same experience, and he was an excellent student. He took care of his studies and handled the additional task of our family’s business. I grew up looking at his dedication, and that inspired me to believe that I could do the same. When he went to college I was fond of him and from then on, I started having a clear vision of going to college. My parents are also very supportive. They believe in me and gave me painting tools because they sensed my childhood passion for painting.

• Challenges…

As a matter of fact, I don’t remember any significant challenge, and I think that’s because of my family’s endless support. I don’t have sufficient time to do my paintings, and the paint and some painting tools are expensive. But my family is always there to help me with the challenges. I thank them for their unlimited support.

• Any message you would like to give to women?

We are part of the society and we need the society. In order to be useful to the society we have to be educated and determined to make our vision a reality. And if you work hard success is inevitable. Families also have to identify their kids’ talents and support them to develop their talents.

Source: Ministry of Information Eritrea

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A million years old three Species of Pigs from the Site of Buia (Eritrea)

According to modern studies, the origin of the family of pigs is known to be from Asia, and later they appeared in Africa around 21Ma, and around 16.5Ma arrived in Europe and China. Some species are also believed to be evolved in the Indian Subcontinent and dispersed around 13.8Ma to Eurasia. To date, the oldest evidence of the subfamily is known from Early Miocene, and the youngest in the early Late Miocene age, documenting a range from about 20 to 9M.

Pigs are intelligent and adaptable animals. They occupy a unique role in several ecosystems, being large and mostly omnivorous mammals.

They are known since the late Eocene in Asia and they are present in the wild across the Old World. They have been important to human populations as a source of food, became domesticated early during the Neolithic and since then have been introduced worldwide. Diseases and parasites carried by wild pigs are also an important focus of socioeconomic and public health studies. In addition, some wild pigs are also critically endangered and a focus of biodiversity conservation studies.

The late part of the evolutionary history of the pigs is relatively well known owing to a relatively rich fossil record, notably in the Neogene (a geologic period starting 23.03 million years ago to 2.58 million years ago) of Eurasia. This record includes some of the best-known and most remarkable evolutionary trends among mammals. Several studies documented rapid morphological changes of dentition through time that is, increases in length, height, and complexity of the third molars and reduction of the premolars and incisors; in several lineages of African Neogene pigs. These include: Nyanzachoerus- Notochoerus, Metridiochoerus, and Kolpochoerus (extant Phacochoerus and Hylochoerus) are phylogenetically nested within the two latter genera, respectively. These lineages comprise overall about 25 species that are often abundantly represented in different Plio-Pleistocene African sites.

Those rapid morphological changes, notably used in biostratigraphic studies, can potentially be correlated to known environmental changes and are thought to illustrate the transition from omnivorous diets to more herbivorous ones through adaptation by natural selection.

They have been found to be a powerful tool for biochronological correlation because of their progressive craniodental morphology that indicates a rapid process of speciation and evolution

Shreds of evidence of three species of fossil pigs have been documented from the Buia Basin dating to about 1.0 million years.

The fossil specimens of extinct pigs were collected during the last two decades of field survey at the late Early Pleistocene sites of the Buia Basin, directed by the Eritreo-Italian research team. Specimens were collected from the surface and are currently housed at the paleontological laboratory of the National Museum of Eritrea (NME), in Asmara. These species are scientifically classified as: Kolpochoerus olduvaiensis, Kolpochoerus majus, and Metridiochoerus modestus. They are morphologically evolved and are found in association with a diverse large fossil vertebrate faunal assemblage, including our genus Homo and a rich accumulation of acheulean lithic tools.

The anatomic, biometric, morphometric, and dental microwear analyses among the species, show significant data on dietary traits, habitat, and evolutionary changes.

Our microwear study involves the analysis of teeth of the three fossil pig species from the Buia Basin in order to answer questions concerning their life and diet. Teeth play a fundamental role during an animal’s life and come in many shapes and sizes for chewing food. A typical mammal tooth includes two parts: a crown and one or more roots. The crown is covered by a layer of dentine, overlain by enamel, while the root is coated with cementum.

In order to understand the paleoecology and dietary habits of the extinct pigs, we used an innovative technique known as Dental Microware Analysis.

The technique allows us to examine the abundance, distribution, orientation, size, and shape of micro-features on the chewing surface of enamel, which directly reflects the properties of food consumed. Enamel is the hardest and most mineralized tissue in the body and it is known, from studies on living mammals, that enamel micro-features relating to food consumption renew every few weeks in life. Thus, at the point of death, the teeth will illustrate the final weeks of the diet of the animal.

The result of our study, on these three pig species, shows the dental anatomic distinction between the three pig species. Conversely, the microwear patterns recorded on the dental surfaces show overlapping of ecological niches among the species.

Their opportunistic feeding and rapid reproduction process might have sustained their survival within the mosaic environments of the Buia Basin in competition with other faunas (other ungulates, carnivores, and monkeys) and our genus Homo. The moderate-sized hypsodont Kolpochoerus majus was contemporaneous with the advanced Kolpochoerus olduvaiensis. Thus it may have been adapted to the open grasslands of the Buia Basin together with the small Metridiochoerus modestus. These species might have consumed dry leaves, grasses, wood bark, and importantly, might have relied on a rooting diet. The results are that browser characteristics for Kolpochoerus olduvaiensis, mixed feeding for Kolpochoerus majus, and for the high-crowned Metridiochoerus modestus, have important consequences for adaptation, habitat preference, and diet.

Their presence alongside our genus Homo in highest number and diversity in the fossil record is a testimony to their adaptive strategies to different environments. They show better potential of presence in the fossil record than any ungulates in several regions of Africa and the Levant. Buia pigs varied dietary habits were the result of their general food requirement advantages and this can be easily noticed from their varied cranio-dental convergent morphology.

These advantages allowed the two genera from the Buia Basin to evolve, adapt and/or disperse far and wide, through appropriate and successful response to the pressures of climate change, compared with other groups of mammals.

They were competitive for dietary resources with other large mammals including carnivores and herbivores. Reflecting on their specialized craniodental anatomy, and high reproductive success they had successful and diverse dietary habits as a response to the dietary challenges profoundly occurred during the trajectory of their evolution. The last representatives of these species are found in the Middle Pleistocene, albeit descendants of a number of these species have survived until the present day.

A Column prepared in collaboration with Eritrea’s Culture and Sports Commission

Source: Ministry of Information Eritrea

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The National Interest’s Article by Rubin – An extremist voice disseminating fabrications and unfounded allegations against Eritrea

The Embassy of the State of Eritrea strongly condemns, and outrightly rejects, the preposterous talking points and claims made against the country and its people by Michael Rubin in the article, “It’s Time to Get Serious About Eritrea,” which was published by The National Interest (10 January 2023) earlier this week.

Although relatively brief, the article is replete with falsehoods and numerous errors. Furthermore, it is extremely disrespectful and highly offensive to the people and government of Eritrea.

Rubin grossly misrepresents the actual situation on the ground in Eritrea and the region. He callously calls for the renewal of illicit sanctions and isolation – which not only violate international law but have also only led to extreme hardships. The author’s ugly smears even extend to libelous and crass disparaging of the Eritrean Embassy in the US, which he dubs as “a den of organized crime”.

Regrettably, Rubin’s latest compendium of hate is consistent with his now worn-out pattern of conduct, and only serves to confirm his traditionally biased stance when commenting on Eritrean or regional issues.

In just the past few years, he has established a truly formidable track-record of flawed commentary and poor analyses. The narratives that he has consistently sought to enmesh within the public consciousness have been characterized not only by “mere” errors and inaccuracies, but whole-cloth falsehoods. Without citing any evidence, and while tending to reference only his own statements or those of discredited sources, he persistently makes major allegations and serious claims. However, when caught out or proven wrong by objective facts or reality, he unwaveringly fails to offer clarifications or corrections.

It is worth noting that beyond Eritrea and the Horn of Africa, Rubin’s body of work and general commentary have come in for considerable criticism and been pilloried.

Previously, a special investigation by Mother Jones, a popular American magazine, described Rubin as, “one of the neocons who led the US to war with Iraq through misinformation and bogus intelligence.” As well, he regularly advocates extremely dangerous, militaristic, positions and seeks to justify illegal “regime-change” measures that would contravene international norms and laws, lead to unnecessary destructive conflict, and cause widespread havoc and hardship.

While The National Interest is certainly entitled to publish the articles or opinions it wishes, it is highly regrettable that it has chosen to provide a platform for an extremist voice that continually disseminates fabrications and makes unfounded allegations with no regard for facts. The Embassy of Eritrea hopes that The National Interest will better commit itself to truth and maintaining high-standards, professional analyses, rather than being used by certain individuals to perpetuate blatant falsehoods and misleading opinions.

Source: Ministry of Information Eritrea

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Can Berlin and Paris reset ‘strained’ EU-Ethiopia ties?

Germany and France have dispatched their top envoys to Ethiopia to revamp relations strained by the Tigray conflict. Analysts say the EU member states are keen to support the reconstruction process but challenges remain.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock’s January 12-13 visit to Ethiopia comes as the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) implement a peace deal signed on November 2022 to end the Tigray conflict.

Baerbock will be accompanied by her French counterpart Catherine Colonna who issued a statement last Thursday, saying their trip will underscore their support for the African Union-brokered peace deal.

The two-year conflict began after TPLF fighters attacked a military base in the north of Ethiopia, prompting the country’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to declare war on the TPLF.

Subsequent fighting — which expanded to include local militias from the Amhara region and soldiers from neighboring Eritrea — killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions of others.

The Ethiopian government then imposed a blockade on Tigray, which cut off all telecommunications and hindered the delivery of humanitarian assistance.

However, since the peace accord was signed, the blockade has been lifted, aid is finally flowing, and even the national carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, has resumed domestic flights to Tigray.

Consolidating the deal

“They [Baerbock and Colonna] want to make sure that the peace talks that resulted in the signing of the cessation of hostilities between the Ethiopian government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front would work and to make sure that arrangement would bring lasting peace to Ethiopia,” Mengistu Assefa, a political analyst and commentator in Addis Ababa, told DW.

The European Union is one of the African Union’s biggest donors. However, Ethiopia did not invite the EU to the peace talks, which resulted in the signing of the agreement in Pretoria. According to some observers, that decision led to some discontent in Brussels.

“All relationships of EU member states [with Ethiopia] have been difficult during the conflict in Tigray in the last two years,” Annette Weber, the EU Special Representative to the Horn of Africa, told DW.

“But the German relationships have been very long-standing, very reliable relations that have been profound. And what we see right now is warming up again after the [Tigray] peace agreement was signed.”

Mending broken relations

Relations between the EU and Ethiopia declined after the Tigray civil war broke out, according to Mengistu.

“The European Union was critical of the Ethiopian government, especially on how it handled the civil war due to reports of violations of human rights law, Mengistu told DW. “That led to cuts in development assistance to the Ethiopian government.”

Now that the peace agreement is holding so far, there has been an improvement in relations between Addis Ababa and Brussels. “That’s likely to continue if there is progress in the peace process with gradual reinstatement of development financing,” William Davison, senior analyst for Ethiopia at the International Crisis Group, told DW.

“The major issue here is the positioning of the major European Union member states, particularly France and Germany, which at times have taken a somewhat softer line on the [Ethiopian] federal government than the EU institutions themselves,” Davison said.

He noted that as the peace process advances, “we’re likely to see that softer, more accommodating approach taken by the EU’s member states, but also from the institutions themselves. This, he adds, would lead to a gradual improvement in relations between the EU and Ethiopia.

Supporting humanitarian work and accountability

According to Weber, Baerbock and Colonna’s visit seeks to acknowledge that a peace deal was inked after two years of a very, very bloody and destructive war.

“The two sides have now agreed to build up humanitarian access again and begin the healing process. “So the basis is humanitarian access, the basis is a ceasefire, the basis is accountability,” Weber said.

“But of course, the steps that are necessary between now and then are still plenty. That’s the messaging that will be delivered by the two foreign ministers.”

Weber pointed out that the EU has long engaged in ongoing discussions and communication between the two sides. For example, the bloc fought hard to gain access for humanitarian aid in Tigray and to integrate people in Ethiopia’s Amhara and Afar regions affected by the Tigray conflict.

“All the member states and the EU have played quite an important role without being in the limelight,” she said, stressing that the EU has been clear that there won’t be a normalization until and unless the conflict has been resolved and unless humanitarian access and services are restored.

Rebuilding mutual trust

During the height of the conflict, the Ethiopian government was of the view that the EU supported the TPLF and sought to force concessions from Abiy.

“The Ethiopian government felt that the EU stood against it by supporting the Tigrayan rebels and wanted to push Ethiopia by putting undue pressure on it,” Mengistu said.

“That stance, that rhetoric, was widely sold domestically. It was very impactful on the international arena by pushing Ethiopia to side with the usual [EU] rivals — such as China and Russia — especially in discussions on the conflict at the UN Security Council meetings.”

He added that both at the grassroots and elite levels, there was a strong anti-Western feeling that will probably persist and continue to affect Ethiopia’s foreign policy.

Mengistu urged the German and French envoys to seize the opportunity to restore relations with Ethiopia in order to benefit global cooperation.

Geopolitical battle in the Horn of Africa

The visit by Baerbock and Colonna comes just days after China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang began a weeklong tour of African nations, including Ethiopia.

Before Gang’s visit, UK’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly was also in Ethiopia, where he witnessed the delivery of humanitarian aid.

To analyst Mengistu, the Horn of Africa has become a focal point of a geopolitical rivalry.He said France may want to explore ways to rebuild their bilateral relations that soured during the conflict. For example, Paris canceled its assistance to Ethiopia’s Navy project and wants to resume it as Moscow is also competing for the same project.

Mengistu said the EU’s critical stance on Ethiopia could be diffused after the two influential EU members start to court Abiy.

Source: Dehai Eritrea Online

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NLTimes.nl: Five new suspects in major human smuggling case around notorious Eritrean

Five more people in the Netherlands have been registered as suspects in the criminal investigation against an Eritrean human smuggler, the public prosecutor revealed in court in Zwolle on Tuesday. The Eritrean man allegedly led a notorious human smuggling gang that smuggled thousands of Africans to Europe.

Amaneul W. (39), also known as Tewelde G., was allegedly also sentenced to 18 years in prison in Ethiopia in 2020. The gang, which he allegedly led with Kidane, who was arrested in Sudan on January 1, operated very violently, according to the Public Prosecution Service (OM). Sources said that the gang gunned down 15 migrants in a hospital in a Libyan town after they broke out of a makeshift prison there, the prosecutor said.

The OM will summon the five people in the Netherlands that are now suspects in this case. They are accused of involvement in extortion here. According to the prosecutor, asylum seekers held in the Libyan town of Bani Walid were forced to call relatives in the Netherlands and were tortured while they were on the line. The Dutch family members were forced to transfer money to the people smugglers to stop the torture, according to the OM.

Co-defendant Kidane is currently in custody in the United Arab Emirates. The OM will request his extradition. “There was already an arrest warrant from the Netherlands against him,” the prosecutor said. The OM wants to try both main suspects at the same time.

According to lawyer Richard van der Weide, who is representing Amaneul W., his client says he is not the person the OM is after in this case. “He keeps saying, I’m not that W.” The suspect mentioned a different name in the hearing. “I have never used violence against anyone,” he said in court. The man only had the equivalent of 34.90 euros on him at his arrest. “If my client is this Mr. W., then he should be a millionaire. Where is all that money?” the lawyer said.

To confirm the suspect’s identity, the OM asked the Netherlands Forensics Institute (NFI) to compare the suspect’s face and voice to images of W. from Bani Walid.

Lawyer Van der Weide also raised doubts about whether a Dutch court had jurisdiction to try an Eritrean man who allegedly committed crimes outside the European Union. The Zwolle court believes it can handle this case for the time being. The next introductory hearing will happen on April 6.

Source: Dehai Eritrea Online

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Free EPL tickets for football fanatics – Syinix giveaway        

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Did you cry when Messi raised the trophy after the penalty shootout? This has nothing to do with nationality, nor with age, football always has such magic, it makes the generation gap brought by various gaps temporarily disappear, it reminds us of youth and devotion. Luckily, our attention quickly turns to the resumption of the Premier League season. There was Martinez; Lloris, the French player who made it to the final and gave an outstanding performance; Croatia’s Modric, who finished third after a superb performance on the left flank; And Ziyech, who led the African team Morocco to the semi-finals.

Campaign

Premier League fans definitely know the Leicester City Football Club. It is a promising team that won the Premier League in 2015, one of only seven clubs to win the title and won the club’s first FA Cup title in 2021. In this season, Leicester City, although affected by injuries, but also achieved good results, with the return of Daniel Amartey, Nampalys Mendy, Wilfred Ndidi and other players, it is believed that Leicester City will also create excellent results in the following games.

As the official brand partner of Leicester City Football Club, Syinix has always been confident about Leicester City’s performance on the football field. Bin Xing, the global chief brand officer of Syinix, said in an interview with the media on 9th Jan 2023, ” I am a super Premier League fan. We are deeply touched by the confidence, tenacity and unyielding spirit of Leicester City, that is why Syinix chose to cooperate with Leicester City. This year is the third year of our cooperation with the Leichester City. In order to reward our fans, Syinix will give away some of the tickets to let everyone continue to experience the passion of football brought by the  Premier League Live “Syinix is very influential in the African home appliance industry. In just a few years since its establishment, it has become the first Android TV brand in Africa. Guided by the brand idea of “quality & innovation”, Syinix aims to provide consumers with higher quality home appliances and a more convenient lifestyle, and is currently working towards the goal of becoming the first home appliance brand in Africa. Syinix owns many categories, including smart TV, air conditioner, refrigerator, washing machine, electric fan, kettle, etc. The world’s first swallow maker, which was launched in 2022, fills the gap in this category and has achieved great success after its launching.

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Prizes: Premier League football tickets * 5;
Rules: Select a slogan that best fits the Syinix brand best via https://forms.gle/DRs28An7BHXqfPqi6;
Campaign Date: 9th Jan- 21st Jan.

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How investing abroad can help Nigeria grow: Commonwealth of Dominica

Roseau, Jan. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — With the economic and political uncertainty that so many Nigerians are feeling about the upcoming elections, many affluent businesspeople are considering whether to continue investing their hard-earned money further in the country or to invest elsewhere.

Risk diversification has always been on the minds of the affluent and, in some cases, investing elsewhere may actually have a positive impact back home in Nigeria.

How the diaspora has been supporting Nigeria

Nigerians are living across the globe. With a rising affluent class, more and more Nigerians are seeking investment, work, and living opportunities elsewhere. But this doesn’t stop Nigerians from investing back in Nigeria from other locations.

According to a World Bank report, Nigeria remains the largest recipient of remittances in the sub-Saharan region. It is the sixth-largest recipient among all low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with an estimated amount of US$23.8 billion received in 2019, an increase of more than half a billion compared with 2018. In comparison, Ghana and Kenya are ranked a distant second and third in the region, according to the report, with US$3.5 billion and US$2.8 billion received, respectively. Remittances refer to the sending of money, and in this case, to money being sent to Nigeria from abroad.

According to a report by an international audit firm, migrant remittances translated to 83% of the Federal Government budget in 2018 and 11 times the foreign direct investment (FDI) flows in the same period. The report also states that Nigeria’s remittance inflows was 7.4 times larger than the net official development assistance (foreign aid) received in 2017 of US$3.4 billion.

These are no small facts. The impact that Nigerians abroad have on the country’s local development is enormous.

CBI as a diversification of risk

One way in which astute investors diversify risk is through obtaining citizenship in another country. Only a handful of countries in the world currently offer citizenship by investment (CBI). The longest-standing and most credible citizenship by investment (CBI) programmes are found in the Caribbean.

There are many benefits to having dual citizenship, including greater global mobility, new economic opportunities, a better quality of life, and improved personal security. Many families and entrepreneurs turn to CBI programmes as an alternative form of asset diversification.

Global uncertainty is driving the desire among wealthy individuals to incorporate second citizenship as part of their portfolios. However, countries offering CBI programmes still require that applicants be strictly vetted before being granted citizenship. This is to maintain certain standards of the CBI programme and to ensure that applicants comply with certain national and international standards to support safety and security, as criminal background checks are also included in the vetting process. The due diligence process of the Commonwealth of Dominica, which forms part of its CBI offering, is one of the best in the world.

Different countries award citizenship in different ways. Some countries award citizenship by virtue of birth in that country, descent from a parent who is a citizen, or by naturalisation, for example through marriage to a citizen or through an extended period of residence in that country. CBI programmes allow successful applicants to obtain citizenship by virtue of a significant investment in a country.

For example, the Dominica CBI due diligence process covers four steps: know-your-customer checks performed by local authorized agents; internal checks including anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing vetting by the Citizenship by Investment Unit; mandated international due diligence firms perform online and on-the-ground checks; and regional and international crime prevention bodies check that you are not on any wanted or sanctions lists.

For additional security, local Caribbean banks, including those in Dominica, also exercise their own vetting processes on each CBI applicant before allowing funds from the applicant to enter the local banking sector. As this forms such an important part of the success of each application, this vetting process is usually done before the applicant’s application is submitted to the recipient government’s CBI unit for processing. This dual process of vetting by the bank as well as vetting by the government agency in charge of CBI adds a necessary and additional level of security to CBI programmes in the Caribbean.

Supporting home from idyllic Dominica

For Nigerians, the Caribbean has been a drawing card for a long time. Some of the first Africans to reach the Caribbean islands arrived in the early 1500s and the Caribbean has been a popular destination for global travelers for hundreds of years. Nigeria has also been one of the most influential cultures in the region, with over 6 million people tracing their lineage back to Nigeria.

In Dominica, the government invests heavily in tourism to drive economic development, focusing on the island’s unmatched natural beauty, and the popularity of diving, hiking, wellness, and eco-tours.

For Nigerian investors, Dominican banks are well-versed in international transfers and can manage a variety of business requirements, whether these are for transactions with those in Nigeria or elsewhere.

From Dominica, investors also save a lot on taxation. There is no taxation on capital and these savings can be sent abroad. Dominica also has no corporate, estate, or withholding taxes. There is also no taxation on gifts, inheritance, and income earned abroad.

For more information on Dominica’s CBI offering, contact CS Global Partners at https://csglobalpartners.com/contact/

PR Dominica
Commonwealth of Dominica
001 (767) 266 3919
mildred.thabane@csglobalpartners.com

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