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Africa Clamours for Aid Prior to the G-20 Summit
[18 Mar 2009]
During the Consultative Meeting prior to the G-20 Summit between the leaders of the African nations and the Prime Minister of Britain, Gordon Brown, the African leaders have strongly appealed to relea
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Tags: african G-20 Summit africa
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Ethiopia to be the Cynosure of African Trade
[18 Sep 2009]
The multi-million dollar Africa International Trade Centre which is coming up at Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa is expected to transform the country to be the trade hub of the African continent. The
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Tags: Ethiopia Africa AEC EU AACCSA AU
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USDA Releases Details on Funds for Emerging Markets Program
[21 Dec 2009]
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that 91 agricultural trade promotion projects had been allocated $8.2m for the fiscal 2009 to promote overseas market access for the US food and a
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Tags: US USDA EMP agricultural products Africa TIRF
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FIFA and SA Allay Fears over World Cup Security
[28 Jan 2010]
The president of South Africa (SA) Jacob Zuma and the FIFA's secretary general Jérôme Valcke at separate occasions informed there was no security threat to the forthcoming football (soccer) World Cup
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Tags: FIFA SA South Africa World Cup WEF Germany
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Mosquito-feasting Plants May Well Be the Answer
[21 May 2010]
A Ugandan scientific team is believed to have discovered an eco-friendly method to eradicate mosquitoes. The team headed by Prof. Jasper Okeng of the Pharmacology department of Makerere University is
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Tags: Uganda malaria mosquito Africa
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EAC Common Market Likely to Slash Cost of Consumables
[12 Jul 2010]
The East African Common Market (EACM) which came into force on July 1 is expected reduce prices of household items as the new 'competitive' market environment will trigger some price shake-up on many
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Tags: EACM EAC Uganda East African Business Week
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Aviation Industry Lengthens Trajectory in Africa
[09 Aug 2010]
Renewed confidence in the African economic renaissance, most international airlines are on an expansion mode in the African continent to meet the growing demands of a prospective travel and freight ma
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Tags: Aviation Africa British Airways Belgian
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Investment Threshold Makes Ghana No Entry for Businesses
[30 Aug 2010]
An analysis on investments in Ghana finds that an old law is restricting foreign investments to that country as it prescribes unreasonable minimum investment limit while leaving out domestic ones from
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Tags: Ghana ECOWAS Nigeria Exports Africa
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UNIDO gives Fillip to West African Economy
[02 Sep 2010]
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is understood to have decided to chart out plans to boost trade partnership within West Africa. The UNIDO Director Felix Ugbor laid out t
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Tags: UNIDO AGM West Africa Nigeria ECOWAS
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Senegal Pitches for Tourism Impetus via Atlanta
[23 Sep 2010]
El Hadji Aziz Gueye, the tourism director of Senegal while surprising the Atlanta's mayor Kasim Reed by informing about the shifting of its office to Atlanta from New York two weeks ago has evoked the
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Tags: Senegal Africa Dakar Africa
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Kenya Packages Tourism as a Key Source of Economic Growth
[11 Oct 2010]
According to industry observers, the Kenyan tourism is experiencing a windfall in business this year after declining consecutively for last two years with political instability and global meltdown. La
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Tags: Kenya Tourism Revenues GDP Africa
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Afro-Asian Efforts on to Rein in Illegal Rhino Horn Trade
[22 Oct 2010]
According to the TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, South Africa and Viet Nam will jointly create strategies to curb the growing illegal trade in rhinoceros horn. SA has the largest rhino
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Tags: Rhino Horn Trade Rhino Viet Nam Africa
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Africa’s ‘Future Five’ to watch for in 2014.
[11 Mar 2014]
Africa, the cradle of humanity is finally getting the limelight it deserves. Traditionally known for its civil wars and lack of economic progress in tune with the rest of the world, Africa has been se
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