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  • East African leaders target US-Africa Summit for infrastructure funding

    AFRICA, 2014/08/05 East African leaders have resolved to present a financing proposition for the Lamu Port Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Project (LAPSSET) to potential financiers at the US-Africa Summit in Washington DC next week. In a communiqué issued next a conference in Nairobi Thursday, Heads of National of Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and South Sudan, agreed to explore the potential of funding from US companies. They as well agreed to maintain rich Gulf States as potential financiers of the project. 'Our discussion was particularly informed by the upcoming Africa-USA Summit on 4-7 August 2014 that will allow the leaders a luck to engage with American investors on this project,' said a statement issued by the office of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, attended a Summit on the project, which involves construction of a highway, port and an oil refinery to boost regional trade and improve transport across the region.

  • International Fund for Agricultural Improvment(IFAD)

    ITALY, 2014/05/27 The Rome-based International Fund for Agricultural Improvment(IFAD) has given Togo a loan of US$39.6 million for a project to promote rural entrepreneurship, according to an IFAD statement received in Lomé on Friday. The agreement was signed on Friday in the Italian capital, Rome, by Adji Otèth Ayassor, Togolese minister of Finance and Economy and Kanayo F. Nwanze, IFAD president. It aims at promoting the development of rural entrepreneurship, creation of sustained jobs and generating revenues for youths from rural communities in the West African country, the statement said. The project, which is co-financed by IFAD and the Togolese government, will be implemented by the Togolese ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Farming and Fishing.

  • The Economic Forum of the Western Mediterranean held in Lisbon

    PORTUGAL, 2014/05/25 The Economic Forum of the Western Mediterranean held in Lisbon on Wednesday centered on a vision shared with North African nations and close cooperation between businesses of '5+5 Dialogue' nations, with appropriate focus on SMEs. The 5+5 Initiative includes Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and Malta on one side and Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya on the other. Opening remarks were made by Portuguese deputy prime minister Paulo Portas on the subject of ''Sustainable Development: the environment, transport, and infrastructure. Challenges, cooperation, and business'. The forum follows the initial edition held in Barcelona on October 23, 2013. Part of the integration of the area that the foreign ministers are pushing forward on, the forum was organized by Portugal and Mauritania, the current co-presidents of the 5+5 Initiative, in collaboration with the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).

  • Forum économique international organisé tous les ans par la Russie à Saint-Pétersbourg

    RUSSIA, 2014/05/23 Le forum économique international organisé tous les ans par la Russie à Saint-Pétersbourg a ouvert ses portes jeudi dans la morosité, en l'absence de plusieurs patrons occidentaux et alors que l'économie russe subit les sanctions liées à la crise ukrainienne. Cette année, près de 34 patrons de sociétés étrangères se sont rétractés et ne participent pas à cette grand-messe des affaires, selon la presse russe qui a comparé la liste initiale des participants avec la dernière version publiée sur le site officiel du forum. Parmi eux, les PDG des banques américaines Morgan Stanley et Citigroup, de l'avionneur Boeing ou du géant allemand Siemens. D'autres entreprises telles que le pétrolier ConocoPhillips, le géant de l'aluminium Alcoa ou le spécialiste des boissons sans alcool PepsiCo sont également absentes, certaines prétextant des "raisons de calendrier".

  • Sudan: Khartoum Forum Bridge for Deepening Africa-China Ties

    SUDAN, 2014/05/18 A leading Sudanese NGO leader said Thursday that a forum concluded before this week in Khartoum constituted a new bridge to deepen historical ties between Africa and China. The 3rd China-Africa People's Forum "reflects the real communication between the Chinese and African peoples," said Amar Bashari, chairman of Sudan Network for National Non-Governmental Organizations, in an exclusive interview with Xinhua. "The (event) is a popular forum that brings together the civil society organizations concerned with the issues of their peoples, with the aim to achieve the biggest benefits for the African and Chinese peoples," he said.

  • Africa’s science, technology and innovation week opened on Monday in Brazzaville.

    CONGO BRAZZAVILLE, 2014/04/16 Africa’s science, technology and innovation week opened on Monday in Brazzaville. Several activities will be organized during the Week, such as the appropriate session of the Association of African Ministers in charge of Science and Technology (AMCOST), the General Assembly of the African Academy of Sciences, the regional workshop of the Pan African Congress for Ethics and Bioethics (COPAB) inclunding a equitable during which know-how and technology used by inventors, innovators and traditional therapists in general, particularly those from Congo, will be displayed. Congo occupies the chairmanship of AMCOST and has seen one of its nationals appointed Commissioner of the African Union in charge of Human Resources, Science and Technology, which clearly reinforces the involvement of the Congo to the development of science in Africa.

  • President John Mahama leaves Accra on Monday night to attend the EU-Africa summit,

    GHANA, 2014/04/02 President John Mahama leaves Accra on Monday night to attend the EU-Africa summit, which is expected to attract some 40 African and 20 European leaders, an official statement has said. This year's summit aims to build on the spirit of the 2007 joint strategy of Africa and European Union under the theme, 'Investing in People, Prosperity and Peace.' The statement said President Mahama and other leaders from the continent would be holding discussions with their European counterparts on how to deepen cooperation and foster human capital through education, training and creating additional incentives for investment to stimulate increase and create jobs.

  • Rwanda hosts conference on ‘Getting Nutritious Foods to People’

    RWANDA, 2014/03/31 A three-day international conference on ‘Getting Nutritious Foods to People’, expected to attract additional than 200 high-level stakeholders from public, private business and civil society, is to hold in Kigali, Rwanda, from 31 March to 2 April. The Washington DC-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPR) stated this in a statement made available to PANA here Friday. It said keynote speakers at the event include M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned father of India’s Green Revolution; Chris Elias, President of the World Development Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation United States; and Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina.

  • The 15th conference of the regional coordination mechanism for Africa (MCR-Africa)

    NIGERIA, 2014/03/31 The 15th conference of the regional coordination mechanism for Africa (MCR-Africa) began proceedings on Friday in the Nigerian, Abuja, on the theme “UN support to Africa’s integration programme in the context of AU schedule”. The MCR-Africa conference offers an opportunity to look at evolution made to improve cooperation, collaboration and coordination between the United Nations, its organs and African Union organs, its goal being to improve the efficiency of UN support to Africa’s development.

  • He was sworn in as President on 7 January 2013.

    GHANA, 2014/03/31 Ghana's President John Dramani, who was elected on Friday as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), was born at Bole in the Northern Region of Ghana on 29 November, 1958. Mr. Mahama, who was vice president from 7 January 2009, acted as president at the same time as President John Evans Atta Mills died suddenly in July 2012. He was elected the presidential candidate of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and went on to win national presidential election in December 2012.
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