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  • Dar Es Salaam to Host Second Tanzania - Israel Investment Forum

    ISRAEL, 2015/05/09 THE second Tanzania- Israel Business and Investment Forum (TIBIF) 2015 is scheduled to be held in Dar es Salaam this month. The forum is being organized by the Kingdom Leadership Network Tanzania (KLNT) in partnership with the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) and Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) under the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) together with the Government of Israel through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute. The TIBIF Executive Director, Mr Isaac Mpatwa, said in Dar es Salaam on Thursday that the forum would be held on 18th to 20th this month and it would focus on agribusiness, education, energy, mining, infrastructure, security and technology.

  • OPEC lost impact on production, price of oil

    WORLD, 2015/05/09 The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Nations is not able to fulfill its obligations any additional, Behrooz Abdolvand, research director at Berlin Centre for Caspian Region Studies said. “OPEC has lost much of its importance during the last 30 years,” Abdolvand told Trend. He reminded that the world oil request was 60 million barrels per day in 1970s and the OPEC produced half of it. “Presently the world request is 92 million barrels per day and the OPEC produces only one third of it.”

  • African business leaders discuss economic trends

    KENYA, 2015/05/03 Selected business leaders and policy makers from across Africa converged in Nairobi over the weekend to discuss mega economic trends in Africa. During the forum organised by Strathmore Business School, the business leaders discussed the growing trends in key economic sectors and prospects for the African continent with a view to providing insights for the continent's increase in the next decade. Part those present were Kenyan Industrialist Manu Chandaria and Keroche Breweries Chief Executive Officer Tabitha Karanja. The participants at the panel discussion were mainly drawn from the School's Alumni and explored recent developments in the ICT and energy sectors, which are projected to change the fortunes of the continent in the wake of increased investment .

  • Sephardic community summit in Madrid, Avila and Toledo 3rd biennal, after Bulgaria and Turkey

    ISRAEL, 2015/05/02 The over 70 participants of the Erensya World Summit of Sephardic communities in the diaspora arrived in Toledo on Thursday. The event was organized by the Sefarad-Israel Center, a cultural entity under the foreign ministry, and is an event that takes place each two years. The meetings in Avila, Madrid and Toledo between April 27 and May 2 aim to establish bridges between Spain and the Sephardic communities, sources from the organization. At this third edition, next ones held in 2011 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and in 2013 in Istanbul and Smyrna in Turkey, representatives from the Sephardic communities of Cairo, Jerusalem, Belgrade, Sofia, Sarajevo, Istanbul, Paris, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago del Chile, Panama and Mexico Federal District are taking part.

  • President Kagame delivering opening remarks at the African Union-Economic Commission for Africa Conference of Ministers

    ETHIOPIA, 2015/04/01 External support should not be the determiner of Africa's development priorities, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told a gathering of finance and planning ministers and governors of central banks. "We should initial decide what we want to do and again apply the money to it, as oppose to doing what the money may dictate", Kagame said. He was speaking at the opening session of the Conference of Ministers during this year's annual conference of the African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. "At the same time as we are able to build something that works for ourselves and by ourselves, again we are in a better position to forge additional meaningful partnerships" he went on, telling delegates that the continent can achieve its aim of a unified Africa "only if we collaborate our efforts towards regional integration".

  • South Africa has ensured that the National Development Plan

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/01/30 Cape Town, South Africa - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is expected to play a key role at the 24th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) which gets underway in Addis Ababa on Thursday. He is accompanied on the trip to the Ethiopian capital by Minister of International Relations Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe, Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Public Services Minister Collins Chabane and National Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo.

  • Economic forum in Gabon to attract political, business leaders in 2015

    GABON, 2014/12/27 The 4th edition of the New York Forum AFRICA, a pan-African economic forum, will bring together additional than 1,500 political and business leaders, inclunding companies and members of the media on 29-31 May, 2015 in Libreville, Gabon, a statement said on Wednesday. The statement obtained by PANA in New York, said the forum with the theme: 'Invest in the Energy Continent', is being organized in conjunction with the President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba.

  • Bold New Reforms Needed for Africa's Land Use, Conference Concludes

    AFRICA, 2014/11/19 Land issues should no longer be considered as too politically sensitive, to the extent that States remain inert and miss out on opportunities to use the indispensable factor of production for the benefit of their people, a landmark policy conference concluded today. From presently on of the four-day encounter on Land Policy in Africa, the close to 400 delegates from Government, civil society, the private sector, academia and local leaders on the continent, said bold new steps must be taken by Governments in conjunction with civil society and the private sector to make the use of land profitable to both the national, investors and disadvantaged groups such as indigenous people, women and youths. Jointly organised by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (A f DB) under their joint Land Policy Initiative, the conference examined a huge gamut of dynamics that surround access to and the use of land and came up with clear recommendations tabled by technical and development partners, policy makers, civil society, the private sector and the world of research and academia.

  • Egypt, Greece, Cyprus pledge to boost energy cooperation

    CYPRUS, 2014/11/09 Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi highlighted his interest in strengthening bilateral relations with Greece, particularly in the economic field, during his conference with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Saturday. Sisi is conference with his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades and Samaras as part of a tripartite summit for the leaders of the three nations to discuss cooperation in all areas and combating terrorism, the Egyptian presidency said in statement on Friday. The talks will be followed by a joint press conference scheduled at 12 p.m., the statement added.

  • Morocco: George Weah Urges CAF to Reason With Morocco

    MOROCCO, 2014/11/08 Former world footballer of the year, George Weah has called upon the Confederation of African Football (CAF), to give Morocco the opportunity to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations at a later date in order to avoid a spread of the Ebola Virus Disease . CAF has given Morocco until tomorrow November 8 to decide if it would host the tournament next the country asked for a postponement due to the ravaging disease in three west African nations inclunding Weah's Liberia.
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