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The Trump administration wants to make it much harder to sue for alleged discriminatory housing practices. The controversial move sets up a classic capitalist argument ... Plaintiffs attorneys didn't have to prove that an apartment owner purposefully refused to lease to African-Americans ... It's a potent legal tool, known as "disparate impact." ... ....

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Native Americans seek to declare Alamo grounds old cemetery

The Huntsville Item 10 Aug 2019

The San Antonio Express-News reports that could delay the $450 million project to restore and enhance the sacred Texas shrine ... Guzman said in an email ... It also applies to the Alamo Plaza through a lease with the city, Guzman said ... Dr ... Most of those individuals are believed to be African American and part of the state's notorious convict-leasing system....

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U.S.-backed Ethio Lease Becomes First Foreign-Owned Company to Obtain a License from the National Bank ...

The Record 08 Aug 2019

According to the latest Global Leasing Report by the White Clark Group, the Pan-African leasing market was estimated to be just USD 5.4 billion in 2015, while the International Finance Corporation (IFC) estimated the Pan-African market at USD 40 billion in 2017....

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Aviation - Air Mauritius louera deux A350 � South African Airways

All Africa 27 Jul 2019

La compagnie d'aviation nationale, Air Mauritius, le confirme. Des n�gociations sont en cours pour que South African Airways puisse prendre en leasing les deux Airbus A350-900. Les deux appareils seront d�ploy�s sur la liaison entre Johannesburg et l'a�roport JFK, � New York, sans escale .......

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The Mauritius Leaks show the West profiting from poor nations while depriving them of tax revenue

Quartz 27 Jul 2019

The world discovered this week, however, that he’s less keen on actually paying taxes to those African governments himself ... To see what that means on the ground, look no further than Aircastle, a Connecticut-based plane-leasing company, which likely avoided $14.8 million in South African taxes over four years....

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Chicago reflects on its bloody summer of 1919, seeking direction from the past

Chicago Sun-Times 27 Jul 2019

Bey spoke about the building of the Dan Ryan Expressway as a tool to keep apart black communities on the east from white neighborhoods on the west; school segregation and closings; and restrictive covenants, which white homeowners signed to prohibit the purchase, lease, or occupation of their homes by African Americans....

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A US multinational avoided South African taxes worth twice Johannesburg’s social housing budget

Quartz 25 Jul 2019

The US-based company, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange and is valued at $1.6 billion, leases aircraft to the likes of United, American Airlines, British Airways, easyJet, and KLM ... It set up six Mauritian shell companies—Thunderbirds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6—and, through those, leased at least four planes to South African Airways....

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Volunteers in Cameroon face tough task saving African grey parrots

Reuters 22 Jul 2019

African greys, one of the world's most trafficked animals, are being given a new lease on life at a wildlife rehabilitation center in Cameroon. Serena Chaudhry reports ... ....

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OPINION: Industry leaders trying to find value in frontier markets

Independent online (SA) 15 Jul 2019

JOHANNESBURG - Established South African industry leaders are struggling with the well-known challenges of doing business in Africa ... Most of their tenants are South African retailers who have scaled back their Africa expansion plans and are unlikely to renew their leases ... Standard Bank’s footprint in 20 African markets is unrivalled....

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Saudi Arabia, Egypt sign deals to support microfinance projects

Arab News 11 Jul 2019

The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) is to pump 125 million Egyptian pounds (SR28.2 million) into renewable energy, agriculture and livestock projects in the African nation ... EFG Hermes for Leasing, a subsidiary of EFG Hermes Finance, will receive 75 million Egyptian pounds, while UE Finance, a microfinance company, and Global Lease Co....

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CMA CGM says it has sufficient security to operate in Gulf

Arab News 08 Jul 2019

Author ... In May, CMA CGM reported a first-quarter net loss of $43 million, although group sales surged 36.9 percent to $7.41 billion, as earnings were impacted by slowing China-US trade and higher lease costs. Main category ... CMA CGM African leaders launch a continental free trade zoneGabon's timber industry reeling after corruption scandal .......

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'I say let them go.' St. Petersburg's black community is indifferent to Rays' fate.

Tampa Bay Times 04 Jul 2019

the city's African-American community ... It is a second chance and it's finally time for the African-American community to benefit from the redevelopment ... Did the Rays' talks with Montreal violate the Tropicana Field lease? ... In 2016, the city held meetings with African-American neighborhoods and groups to help shape the redevelopment....

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UPDATE 1-Philadelphia refinery seeks to sell oil stocks, equipment after fire -sources

Canada Dot Com 03 Jul 2019

East Coast, after a fire extensively damaged the facility ... PES has offered at least one cargo of Chadian Doba Blend, a heavy, sweet crude from the north-central African nation, four trade sources said. The company owns or leases a fleet of railroad tank cars ... It was unclear whether PES has begun offering the cars or leases to potential buyers ... ....