President Paul Kagame yesterday addressed the opening ceremony of the fourth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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.
Zimbabwe can continue mining diamonds under the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme after the 70-member international diamond trade body accepted that Zimbabwe was reforming its mining practices.
The call was made yesterday by Manzi Nkubito Bakuramutsa, an ICT official in the Office of the President while opening a one-day meeting of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) cluster workgroup at Telecom House.
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has offered Africa $10b in concessional loans over the next three years along with a range of other measures aimed at strengthening African-Chinese ties.
CELLPHONE groups may have thrown away their last chance to devise lower call fees that will not prove too onerous for them, with the collapse of roundtable talks leaving the industry regulator able to enforce its own bigger cuts.
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has noted with concern that the mining industry has not transformed as quickly or sufficiently as it could.
District # 2 Representative of Bomi County, Haja Fata Siryon has proposed a National Agriculture Council for Liberian Farmers in the Country which will coordinate and liaise with farmers and the Agriculture Ministry for the production of seed rice.
Ghana's jubilee fields will start pouring oil in commercial quantities in the last quarter of 2010, but Ghana could end up with a paltry 14% stake in the fields if it fails to stall the Exxon, Kosmos deal.
POSTA Uganda has increased its courier rates for international transactions.
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by David Dunn is currently in The Gambia on a working visit to assess the economic performance as at end-September the sixth and final review of The Gambia's three-year programme under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).
Stakeholders in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, Friday, held an in-depth analysis of the sector's challenges and progress in the last two years.
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday barred the federal government from selling the National Frequencies in the 2.3 GHz Band, which the government had earlier awarded to Mobitel Limited, pending determination of an action brought by the telecommunication outfit.
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."
AIRLINES that between them carry more than 85% of the passengers arriving in SA have signed on to an electronic system to enable immigration officials to identify dodgy passengers at the point of check-in, before they even board an aircraft bound for SA.
