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.
Transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama of the United States and President Ian Khama of Botswana after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday November 5, 2009:
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.
A visit from Dutch contractors to Niassa Province, in northwestern Mozambique has got communities excited about the prospect of a carbon credit scheme in the area.
The United Nations refugee agency is appealing for $2.8 million to provide essential supplies and respond to possible disease outbreaks among more than 300,000 refugees in two camps in Kenya threatened by flooding.
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."
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.
The chiefs and people of Gbadzeme in the Avatime Traditional Area in the Ho Municipality, have discovered a number of new tourist sites which should be developed to attract both local and foreign tourists to the area.
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono yesterday read the riot act to banks for their continued reluctance to lend to the productive sectors, setting thresholds to guide their lending.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the East African Community (EAC) member states has grown significantly from $629 million registered in 2002 to $1.7 billion in 2007.
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The East African Community will help resolve challenges facing the concession of railway lines in the region.
ABOUT two million Nigerian auto mechanics may soon be forced out of the labour market as a result of obsolete knowledge, the Federal Government had warned.
New scientific evidence has proved that Mount Kilimanjaro's snow is melting fast.
