The investment in Tugende came from Mobility 54, the investment fund for Toyota Tsusho Corporation as part of $6.3 million Tugende raised in its Series A investment round this month. "We see a huge potential for Tugende business in the taxi market," Mobility 54's chief executive officer Takeshi Watanabe told Reuters, noting that many minibus taxis were Toyotas.

According to the official, Anjum Shahzad, the blaze erupted from a gas leak and a short-circuit on board the minibus, leading to the high casualty toll.

Six passengers were also injured, and some of them were Minibuses in manchester critical condition at a hospital, he added.



Authorities said witnesses told them that a minibus traveling from Port-au-Prince to Saint-Marc tried to pass another car when it hit a bus head-on. The bus had been traveling from Gonaives to the capital.

KAMPALA, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The trading arm of the Toyota Group has invested $4 million in Ugandan start-up Tugende, saying it hopes the firm's loans to small, independent businesses will also help customers buy the carmaker's vehicles.



The Volkswagen-owned company has hired five Antonov cargo jets (you know, the big ones) to shuttle parts over since 90% of the components for its vehicles come from Europe. If that sounds like a wildly expensive and inconvenient way to do business, you're probably not wrong. The jet scheme is meant as a stopgap should discussions in Belgium between UK and EU officials on trade relations not go well.

Somalia, with only limited central government since 1991, is trying to rebuild with international help but the path back to stability has been obstructed by a political crisis caused by a failure to hold elections that were due in February.

Dodon said not enough Moldovans living in Russia had voted for him and complained that the embassy had closed for a lunch break on election day despite people queuing up outside to cast their ballots.



Its customers are unlikely to balk significantly at cost increases, and there are likely ways that the company could further cut costs to help weather the transition if things go poorly. Bentley is in a unique position in the car industry, where Brexit is concerned. It's also expecting to sell upward of 10,000 vehicles this year, worldwide -- a figure which, according to Hallmark, is enough for the company to turn a profit for the year.

Skardu is located in a complex of mountain ranges that includes the Himalayas, and the town is the gateway to K2, the world´s highest peak after Mt.

Everest. Skardu is around 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad. Large numbers of local and foreign tourists visit the peak annually.

The bus from Cairo collided with a truck loaded with cement, which was stopping due to a malfunction, in the province of Assiut, about 370 km south of the capital, the provincial governor's office said in a statement.










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