December 04, 2000
Ghana: Tension High Ahead Of A Critical Election
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With just three days to go before the general elections in Ghana, Monday's clash between jittery police and frustrated opposition protestors, and the controversial and highly… Read more »
December 01, 2000
Africa: Major Investment House May Lose Key Africa Fund
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The US$350m New Africa Infrastructure Fund, backed by the US government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), is up for grabs because of the failure of the firm… Read more »
November 22, 2000
Eswatini: Workers Plan Blockade To Achieve Democracy
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Johannesburg The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) is consolidating plans for an economic blockade next week, to try to force King Mswati III and the government to agree… Read more »
November 21, 2000
Eswatini: Workers Plan Blockade To Achieve Democracy
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The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) is consolidating plans for an economic blockade next week, to try to force King Mswati III and the government to agree to democratic… Read more »
Africa: Leaders Campaign On Small Arms 'Emergency'
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Small arms and light weapons are a "growing emergency", former French Prime Minister Michael Rocard warned Monday. Read more »
Guinea Bissau: IMF Gives Preliminary Approval To Debt Relief
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The International Monetary Fund has declared Guinea-Bissau eligible for debt relief under the Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, it announced Tuesday. Read more »
November 17, 2000
Africa: Youssou Ndour Supports Digital Receivers
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World-famous Senegalese Mbalax star Youssou Ndour on Friday promised to work with a Senegalese company, Comptoire Commercial Bara Mboup (CCBM), to market WorldSpace digital… Read more »
November 16, 2000
Zimbabwe: Help Us Get Mugabe Out, Delegation Asks U.S. Officials
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Zimbabwe's economic slide will accelerate and political tensions heighten over the next two months, warned a delegation of the Movement for Democratic Change, in Washington to meet… Read more »
November 08, 2000
Ghana: The Cudgels Are Out [analysis]
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The gloves are off and the political knives out in the campaign which should lead to presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana next month. Read more »
November 03, 2000
Cote d'Ivoire: Liberian Leader Arrives To Support Gbagbo
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President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'Ivoire received his first official visit from a head of state Friday -- a week after he was sworn into office. The fleeting stopover was by… Read more »
November 01, 2000
Africa: Change of Attitude Needed Say Conference Participants
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"How can Africa be a priority and at the same time there are no funds for investment?" a participant stood up and asked panelists discussing "Attracting financing for African… Read more »
Africa: Top Cop for AGOA Lays Down the Law at Conference
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Janet L. Labuda, Director, Strategic Trade Operations Division of the U.S. Customs Service is known as "The Enforcer." On a panel discussing the recently passed African Growth and… Read more »
Africa: African Leaders Must Break The "Wall Of Silence" On AIDS - Kaunda
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In Africa there is a "deafening wall of silence on AIDS" that must be "broken," former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda told a session of the Africa Forum 2000 at World Bank… Read more »
October 31, 2000
Africa: Africa Offers Opportunity, Officials At World Bank/IMF Meeting Say
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Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda appeared at a reception welcoming participants to the Africa Forum 2000 that got underway in Washington Monday. Read more »
October 30, 2000
Africa: "We Should Not Think Africa Is Lost" - IMF Chief
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Addressing head-on the common perception that Africa is hopelessly mired in poverty and strife, the top official of the International Monetary Fund says that Africa has the… Read more »
Africa: Stock Exchanges Take Steps Towards Pan African Exchange
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Securities quoted on African stock markets now have a smoother path to cross-border listing on other stock exchanges on the continent, as stock exchange executives this weekend… Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Ivorian Politicians Navigate Dangerous Waters [analysis]
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An historic page has been turned in the history of Cote d'Ivoire. It was a short, bloody and devastating chapter for a nation that, until 24 December 1999, had been the most stable… Read more »
October 28, 2000
Cote d'Ivoire: From Firebrand To President [analysis]
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Laurent Gbagbo has been described by most commentators as the 'opposant historique' of Ivory Coast - the historic political opponent. Why? Because he was about the only one who… Read more »
October 27, 2000
Africa: Tell Your Story And Attract Investors, African Countries Told
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African countries should adopt an aggressive marketing strategy to sell the investment opportunities that abound in continent, a speaker at the conference on capital markets said… Read more »
Africa: Imperatives For African Success In Capital Markets Outlined At Conference
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Achievement of stable macro-economic environments, provision of incentives for participants, and liberalisation of trade, investment and exchange controls are some of the… Read more »
Cote d'Ivoire: Gbagbo and Ouattara Meet
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Ivory Coast?s main opposition leader, Alassane Dramane Ouattara, has held talks with the new president Laurent Gbagbo. Read more »
Africa: Kwanzaa Party! [music review]
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Artist: Compilation CD: Kwanzaa Party! Label : Uni/Rounder 1996 Read more »
Nigeria: Juju Monarch King Sunny Ade's Latest and Best [music review]
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Artist : King Sunny Ade CD : Od? Label : WEA/Atlantic 1998 Read more »
October 26, 2000
Cote d'Ivoire: Gbagbo Sworn In as Ivorian President
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The veteran Ivorian opposition leader, Laurent Gbagbo, has been sworn in as president of Cote d'Ivoire the day after a popular uprising swept the military leader, General Robert… Read more »
Africa: Need for Stability Re-echoes at Capital Markets Conference
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The need for economic and political stability in the whole of Africa as a pre-requisite for continent-wide development re-echoed here Thursday as the Sixth Annual Conference of the… Read more »
