By Håvard Halland, Alan Gelb, and Silvana Tordo  Following the recent discoveries of large oil and gas deposits in East Africa, a number of countries in the Source: cfi.co

Kazakh First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev held a meeting of the government’s interagency commission to discuss regulation of business in the country, particularly President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s request to halve the number of permits… Source: http://www.astanatimes.com

Kazakhstan Adds Gold With Ukraine as Russia Halts PurchasesBloomberg“There’s been a small but nonetheless increasing trend that central banks want to hold gold,” said Wayne Gordon, an analyst at UBS Group AG in Singapore. Source: http://www.bloomberg.com

VIENNA (Reuters) – Rakhat Aliyev, the Kazakh president’s former son-in-law turned opponent, has been found dead in an Austrian jail after killing himself, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Source: http://www.reuters.com

EBRD, UniCredit Group lend $260 million to Kazakh mining company http://t.co/PLxiVs3KQf Source: en.trend.az

Kazakhstan’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom Yerzhan Kazykhanov has presented the letter of credence to Queen Elizabeth II. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

Astana has no intention to cut the oil production, though the Kazakhstan’s economy has been hurt by the continuing oil prices fall. Source: http://www.azernews.az

Within implementation of the Memorandum of cooperation between Ministry of health and social development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, medical universities of Kazakhstan and Dundee University (Great Britain) on the basis of the Kazakh National… Source: kaznmu.kz

Kazakhstan’s Senate has approved a draft law protecting children from harmful information. One of its provisions bans ‘promotion of non-traditional sexual orientation’. Source: en.tengrinews.kz

Kazakhstan’s grain exports have shrunk by a quarter so far this marketing year, hit by poor grain quality and heavy supply of from other producers, th Source: http://www.brecorder.com