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Ghana is taking steps to strengthen diplomatic relations with Trinidad and Tobago and collaborate to reduce the immigration blues facing Ghanaians and receive technical assistance and expertise in the oil and gas industry.
Although the 2010 World Cup is still six months away, Cape Town has hosted the first formal gathering of the candidates for two World Cups almost a decade away.
VENEZUELAN Ambassador to Nigeria, Enerique Fernando Arrundell, could not have offered his advice on Nigeria's management of its petroleum resources at a better time. The anchor of government's argument is that higher prices would draw foreign investors to the downstream sector of the industry.
The opening match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup will see South Africa up against Mexico. The match will be played at Soccer City at 4pm on 11 June 2010.
UGANDA is to send oil technicians to Cuba, a country which has been successful in oil and gas production, for training.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni visited a number of institutions in and around Havana to learn more about the Cuban system of health care, education and service delivery, according to a statement from State House.
South Africa and Cuba have reaffirmed the need to strengthen their existing relations and further expand cooperation between the two countries.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni is in the Cuban capital Havana for a four-day state visit. According to a State House release, Museveni arrived in Cuba on Monday at the invitation of his counterpart, Raul Castro Ruz.
HOW would the Irish have reacted if Gert Smal had gushed like a lovelorn puppy and waxed lyrically about the Springboks ahead of the Test match between his native SA and Ireland at the weekend?
ZIMBABWE and Brazil are seeking to remove double taxation for business transactions between the two countries and explore more areas of co-operation that include rehabilitation of water, road infrastructure and electricity generation.
ZIMBABWE'S chances of hosting Brazil for the 2010 Fifa World Cup finals got a major boost on Sunday when the Brazilian technical team said it had exclusively focused on setting base either here or in South Africa.
Several normal Nigerians would have been totally crestfallen when they read on Tuesday the story of how the Venezuelan Ambassador to this country, at a moment of truth, brushed aside protocol to pass a vital message to Nigeria about how the country's failures in multiple dimensions is troubling the developing world.
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana Mashabane and her delegation will arrive in Cuba later today to strengthen South Africa's already existing bilateral ties with the Latin American country.
JAMAICAN star Beenie Man is coming to Kampala next weekend, but his influence has been in Uganda for years, inspiring Jose Chameleone and Bobi Wine.
Recognising that they have been given an "unprecedented opportunity" just before the start of the climate change talks in Copenhagen, Commonwealth leaders have issued a declaration which commits to focusing efforts "on achieving the strongest possible outcome" in the Danish capital.
GROUP OF 20: Africa gets seat at policy table
Federal Government yesterday sought for Venezuela's investment in Nigerian's refineries as part of efforts to achieve successful deregulation in the downstream petroleum subsector.
The government of Cuba yesterday appealed to Tanzania to support its decision to pressurize the United States to free five Cuban nationals currently being held in US jails.
The claim that biofuels are a threat to food security comes from multinational oil companies, who fear that biofuels are a threat to their business, alleged Jose Bellini, coordinator for agrobusiness of the Brazilian Agriculture and Livestock Research company, EMBRAPA, in Maputo on Thursday.
The new ambassador of Cuba to The Gambia, Her Excellency Ines Fors Fernandez, yesterday visited the Observer Company, publisher of the Daily Observer newspaper, at its offices on Gacem Road, Kanifing.
Mozambican Brazilian, and Southern African business people are meeting for two days in Maputo to look into investment opportunities for producing biofuels, particularly ethanol, from sugar cane in Mozambique.
The Federal Ministry of Youth and Social Development has been invited to Mexico for the next year's World Youth Conference which is taking place in August, 2010.
Nigeria has pledged to work closely with Brazil as the two countries prepare to take their seat as members of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) in January 2010.
Brazil is ready to strengthen ties with Zimbabwe and help the country develop its vast mineral resources, the head of a visiting delegation from Brasilia has said.
Brazil produced a masterclass of Beach Soccer as they swept aside Nigeria 11-5 in the Group D clash between the world and African champions.
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