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There were fears at the weekend that the multi-billion dollar Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project being midwifed by Nigeria, Algeria and Niger is now a target for sabotage by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he differs with President Robert Mugabe on tactics and strategy but will defend the veteran leader's place in the transitional government to save the country from total collapse.
Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe.
A week after the government received a sectoral budget support grant of 8.1 million Euros from the Federal Republic of Germany, another 5.56 million Euros financial agreement has been signed by the two countries.
Spain Has Launched the Spanish Plan Africa 2009 - 2012, which encourages key initiatives that could play a role in preventing conflicts and strengthening peace in post-conflict areas in sub-Saharan Africa.
President Hifikepunye Pohamba has been invited by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to visit the European country.
It affords me great pleasure to be with you this morning and I would like to begin by congratulating the council members and indeed, the rank and file of the members of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce on yet another milestone in the history of the Chamber, the commemoration of this year's business day. What the Chamber seeks to accomplish by marking the business day is well known to many ...
The arrival in Africa of the President of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev last June 22, 2009 soon after that of the President of the Untied States of America strikes a significant note for the continent.
LONDON Stock Exchange-listed investment firm, LonZim has structured a deal that would see Fly540 Africa airline, commence operations in Zimbabwe by September.
SPANISH Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero visited Nigeria and Togo a fortnight ago. His visit to Nigeria was marked by the usually drab diplomatic talks and official declarations.
A marketing blunder in Nigeria has got online communities all of a twitter, after a joint oil and gas venture with Russia was named Nigaz, the BBC reported on its website yesterday.
MINING corporations operating in Zimbabwe on Tuesday defied an order by Mines and Mining Development Minister, Obert Mpofu, to boycott an international mining conference organised in London by a South African resource industry consultancy after the government official was denied a visa to the United Kingdom.
Amid mounting international opposition to a proposed referendum for President Mamadou Tandja to stay in power, the European Commission - one of Niger's largest donors - has warned of aid cuts if leaders do not respect constitutional order.
Angola's Minister of Science and Technology, Maria Cândida Teixeira, has called for the support of the French Government, for training of cadres in various areas of sciences and technologies, Angop has learnt.
The Angolan head of State José Eduardo dos Santos Thursday in Luanda analysed with the ambassador of Germany to Angola, Bernd Morast, the conditions of the relations between the two countries.
Tanzania has been cautioned that disbursements of General Budget Support (GBS) depend on her continued compliance with the underlying principles of the Partnership Framework Memorandum, including the fight against corruption.
THE Government should be transparent on issues of oil resources to avoid suspicion, visiting Norwegian officials have advised.
THE European Union (EU) has not agreed to include trade concessions made at the Swakopmund negotiations in the interim economic partnership agreement (EPA), but intends to look at the rules of origin provisions to prevent the breakup of the Southern African Customs Unions (Sacu).
Russian energy giant Gazprom has inadvertently walked into an online racism debate with the announcement of its new joint venture in Nigeria -- Nigaz.
Ninety-six Nigerians deported from various parts of Europe, yesterday, arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos.
The state minister for trade, Nelson Gaggawala Wambuzi, has called on more Turkish business people to invest in Uganda, saying the country had the most conducive environment for profitable investment in the region.
The European Union (EU) has offered 80,000 Euros to support local governments in the Niger Delta region, acting head of Delegation of European Commission to Nigeria Dr. Denis Thieulin has said.
A group of French nationals currently touring the country have strongly criticized the government of former President Francois Mitterand for aiding an extremist government as it killed its own people.
Nigerian High Commission yesterday denied report in a national newspaper, that governors, ministers and others were shut out at a London reception organised for Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.
The European Union (EU) has undertaken to deal with some of the issues that could have precipitated a break-up of the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu).
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