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CHARL Senekal holds up a clod of Libyan soil and lets it trickle through his fingers. Behind him endless rows of neglected olive trees stretch into the distance. "This place is easy to fix," says the jovial barrel-chested farmer. "We could turn it into a paradise."
President Paul Kagame yesterday addressed the opening ceremony of the fourth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
FORMER Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ambassador Idris Waziri has disclosed that Nigeria and China have signed an agreement to stop the inflow of substandard and fake products from the latter into the country, just as he disclosed that the proposed first Nigeria-China Trade and Investment Forum will help put a stop to counterfeiting and importation of fake products into the country from China.
South Africa will strengthen relations at the 4th Forum on Africa-China Cooperation (FOCAC) which kicks of today in Egypt.
KENYA Ports Authority (KPA) is stuck with over 6,000 containers destined for Uganda, the ports' managing director said on Friday.
UGANDA'S milk production reduced at least by 25% between May and August, the Dairy Development Authority indicated last week, reports Chris Magezi.
It is a compassionate act that continues to baffle both friend and foe. Few in his shoes could imagine, let alone attempt, surrendering their valued assets to the less fortunate in society.
United Nations is appealing for Sh210 million (US$2.8 million) to provide essential supplies to refugees and respond to possible disease outbreaks in camps threatened by floods in Kenya.
INVICTA Holdings claimed a "most satisfactory result" for the six months to September, despite a 9% year-on-year fall in profit to R139m.
THE Federal government has attributed the reason for the very low volume of trade between the country and Iran to the production of similar product which is oil, just as it disclosed that Iran's transaction with Nigeria as at 2005 stood at N75 million while that of Nigeria is put at N311 million.
Africa will receive $10 billion in concessional loans from china over the next three years.
It happens once a year in Norway. The whole country is consumed by it. This time, the development aid fundraising had a renewed sense of purpose, determination and optimism.
THE Australian government has pledged about sh173b to fight hunger in Uganda and other African countries in the next four years.
THE Council of Ministers of the Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation has passed a resolution to curb illegal fishing and trade in immature Nile Perch in local and regional markets.
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has lampooned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and other security agencies for allegedly turning "themselves into debt recovery agents" following the current crisis in the banking sector.
Industrial and General Insurance Plc (IGI) has been appointed the exclusive official insurer of the 2009 Lagos International Trade Fair.The appointment came after an agreement was reached between the management of IGI and the Lagos Camber of Commerce and Industry, organizers of the annual trade fair.
The Chairman of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission, Alhaji Aliyu Jibril Yelwa has raised alarm at the spate of the foreign and local debts being incurred by the three tiers of government in Nigeria.
Director-General, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr. Yomi Bolarinwa, has said that introduction of private networks in Nigeria will attract private investors to the country.
The decision to give Zimbabwe no more than a slap on the wrist for the human rights abuses which its army has committed on the Marange alluvial diamond fields in the south-east of the country seriously threatens the future of the diamond industry's initiative to avert consumer boycotts of its gemstones.
Aid agencies operating in Somalia say they need more money but that some donors are holding back, concerned at where resources might end up in areas too dangerous for international staff.
The federal government yesterday said Nigeria has not closed its borders with Niger Republic.
Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced today that it has transferred USD 336 million to Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria to pay for the provision of more than 50 million long-lasting insecticidal nets in the next few months. Together, this will amount to a 2/3 increase of the number of bed nets in Africa through Global Fund supported programmes.
There is no lack of opportunity in Africa. But the road to converting those opportunities to business success is often paved with obstacles. The question becomes not what opportunities exist in Africa, but how to make them work.
ZIMBABWE is presently saddled with a US$5,7 billion debt that is impacting adversely on the economy, but we need to handle the issue more soberly and ensure that we employ debt settlement strategies that will not prove costly in the end.
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