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  • Africa50 to Hold Constitutive General Assembly in Casablanca

    CASABLANCA, 2015/07/29 Africa50 – an innovative infrastructure investment platform sponsored by the African Development Bank – will hold its Constitutive General Assembly on 29 July 2015 in Casablanca, Morocco. Representatives of 24 African nations who have subscribed for an accumulation all of USD 830 million will attend this historic event. Africa50 aims to significantly narrow Africa's infrastructure financing gap by delivering transformative national and regional infrastructure projects thereby spurring Africa's increase and prosperity. Through an integrated approach, Africa50 will invest in African infrastructure projects at scale along all price chain via its sister Project Finance and Project Development Companies.

  • Obama Chides African Leaders Who Cling to Power

    BOTSWANA, 2015/07/29 Barack Obama has chided African leaders who refuse to give up power in his initial speech at the African Union headquarters by a US president. The scolding came in the course of his address on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to the 54-member continental bloc. "Africa's democratic evolution is as well at risk at the same time as leaders refuse to step aside at the same time as their terms end," Obama said. "No one should be president for life."

  • Obama: Kenya at 'crossroads' between peril and promise

    UNITED STATES, 2015/07/27 Declaring Kenya at a "crossroads" between promise and peril, President Barack Obama on Sunday pressed the country of his father's birth to root out corruption, treat women and minorities as equal citizens, and take responsibility for its next. Closing his historic visit with an address to the Kenyan people, Obama traced the arc of the country's evolution from colonialism to independence, inclunding his own family's history here. Today, Obama said, young Kenyans are no longer constrained by the limited options of his grandfather, a cook for the country's former British rulers, or his father, who left to seek an education in America.

  • U.S., Kenya Leaders Co-Host Nairobi Entrepreneur Summit

    UNITED STATES, 2015/07/25 Barack Obama is co-hosting a summit on world entrepreneurship with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi, on the initial working day of the US leader's trip to East Africa. The two presidents spoke back-to-back at the opening of Saturday's conference, aimed at promoting businesses that promise to lift a lot of additional Africans out of poverty and help insulate societies against radicalisation. Obama landed in the Kenyan capital on Friday. Throngs of Kenyans lined the route of his convoy, cheering, whistling and waving as the motorcade passed by and a helicopter circled overhead.

  • Germany and Italy showcased at Angola’s largest trade fair

    GERMANY, 2015/07/22 The 32nd edition of the Luanda International equitable (Filda) starts Tuesday in Luanda with the participation of 40 nations and territories and 930 national and international exhibitors, occupying a covered area of ​​28,000 square metres. Organised by the Luanda International equitable (FIL), which spent about 250 million kwanzas on it, the 32nd Filda runs until the 26 July under the theme of “dynamism, creativity and competence in domestic production.” With the participation of nations and territories such as Brazil, Japan, Spain, France, India, Turkey, Zambia, Egypt, Senegal, Nigeria, China, Indonesia and Macau, the highlights of the event will be the Germany/Angola and Angola/Italy economic forums in the sectors of Agriculture and Food Industry, and the 2015 Luanda Investment Forum.

  • The 6th Ministerial Meeting of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum to be Held in Beijing

    BAHRAIN, 2015/07/10 Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hong Lei announced at the press conference: Upon agreement of China and the League of Arab States, the 6th ministerial conference of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum will be held in Beijing on June 5. Foreign ministers or representatives from China and Arab states inclunding the Secretary-General of the Arab League will attend the conference.

  • Royal visit confirms Morocco’s growing interest in West Africa

    MOROCCO, 2015/06/24 A tour of West and Central Africa by Morocco’s chief of national in May has underlined the country’s increasing efforts to strengthen trade and investment ties with its neighbours south of the Sahara. Morocco’s government has sought to aggressively expand the country’s economic footprint in Africa in recent years, with King Mohammed VI spearheading a number of trips to West and Central African markets. The May delegation, which as well included ministers and business leaders, followed a four-country itinerary across West Africa. Facilitating investment and increasing economic cooperation were the focus of the tour – the third such trip to the region in as a lot of years – which included stop-offs in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau and Gabon.

  • Baku 2015 announces TV coverage for Africa

    AZERBAIJAN, 2015/06/06 The Baku 2015 European Games has signed an agreement with Fox Sports Africa to bring the inaugural European Games to its viewers in 25 nations and territories. This announcement, one week ahead of the Opening Ceremony, ensures that Baku 2015 will reach viewers in all major markets around the world. Most nations and territories in the African continent will presently be able to watch the Games, which will take place from June 12-28, thanks to the Fox Sports Africa arrangement and one signed with the Arab States Broadcasting Union in October 2014, which covers North Africa inclunding the Middle East.

  • The Bangui National Forum, held in the Central African Republic capital

    CENTRAL AFRICA REPUBLIC, 2015/05/19 The Security Council has welcomed the recent national reconciliation forum held in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the inclusive, grassroots-level manner in which the consultations were carried out, particularly by ensuring the participation of women, and called on the country's Transitional Authorities, with the support of the United Nations, to speedily implement the forum's outcomes. The members of the Security Council, in a press statement issued yesterday evening, welcomed the holding in Bangui, from 4 to 11 May 2015, of the National Forum on reconciliation, and the inclusive grassroots level consultations that gathered views of local citizens in advance.

  • African ministers commit to expanding affordable social protection for all

    AFRICA, 2015/05/19 African ministers of social development, labour and employment conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have called for expanded social protection for all to ensure inclusive development in Africa. During an event held from 20 to 24 April, and organized by the African Union, ministers agreed that a prosperous Africa can only become a reality if Member States extend comprehensive social protection measures. Access to affordable and quality education and health services are part the measures that should be expanded to all, in particular vulnerable people. These include people living with and affected by HIV, women, children, people living with disabilities and older people.
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