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  • Mali Peace Accord Under Pressure

    MALI, 2015/08/27 Two months next a peace accord for northern Mali was signed amid fanfare, the transaction is looking extremely fragile. The Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition Touareg and Arab rebels which is a key player, has just pulled out of the peace accord's monitoring committee. The CMA announced its decision at a conference on Sunday in Bamako with representatives of the international mediation led by Algeria. Even if the CMA has only announced a suspension, this raises fears of new violence spreading in northern Mali. The rebel coalition's decision is in turmoil at being driven from the town of Anefis in recent fighting with militia of the "Plateforme", a term that in Mali designates armed groups supporting the government in Bamako.
  • Buhari Endorses Jonathan's Minister Adesina for AfDB Presidency

    NIGERIA, 2015/04/25 The president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has asked the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to support one of President Goodluck Jonathan's right-hand men, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, to emerge the next president of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Dr Adesina is the current minister of agriculture and rural development. To this end, Buhari has communicated his support for Adesina's candidacy to the Ghanaian president, John Dramani Mahama, who is the current chairman of the sub-regional group, ECOWAS.
  • Lusaka mayor woos Indian investors

    ZAMBIA, 2014/03/13 LUSAKA Mayor Daniel Chisenga has implored multi-national companies and the private sector in India to invest in Zambia because of the good economic policies prevailing in the country. Mr Chisenga asked the Indian infrastructure and medium-heavy manufacturing sector to take chance of the enabling environment for foreign investments. The Mayor was speaking on the sidelines of the 10th Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership (CIAP) that took place at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, India.
  • Cape Town’s commitment to quality gets results

    SOUTH AFRICA, 2013/10/24 Each of the ten partners in the BestCities World Alliance demonstrates the same outstanding qualities, efficiencies and high standards expected as membership criteria. BestCities is the initial world alliance to put in place a certification program – with standards certified by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA). Together with nine other partners, Cape Town & Western Cape Convention Bureau undertakes a rigorous internal and external audit each year and has been rewarded with recertification each time.
  • The MasterCard African Cities Growth Index

    GHANA, 2013/06/28 A new statement has identified Accra, Lusaka and Luanda as Africa’s capital cities with the highest potential for increase over the next five years. The MasterCard African Cities Increase Index, which rated the capital cities of Ghana, Zambia and Angola high on the inventory, said although South Africa and Nigeria were the only nations with three cities in the index, none featured in the top five. Professor George Angelopulo of the University of South Africa and Prof George Roger of the University of Cape Town, who compiled the statement, noted: “While additional established cities offer the expected potential for increase, other less prominent ones are quietly establishing themselves as those with even higher increase potential. Accelerated increase factors included health, education, governance, infrastructure development and the relieve of doing business.”
  • Kumasi creates website to promote investment

    GHANA, 2013/04/11 A new website has been developed for the city of Kumasi to attract foreign and local direct investment . A prime for a Ghanaian city, the website(www.investinkumasi.com) reflects the city government’s ongoing commitment to fostering a pro-business environment.
  • Former Acting City Mayor, Mary Broh

    LIBERIA, 2013/03/06 At a conference she convened on Tuesday, March 5, to discuss the Omega Village Project, President Ellen Johnson named former Acting City Mayor, Madam Mary T. Broh, to chief the Project Implementation Unit that will manage the project, with the Ministry of Public Works taking the lead.
  • Sanitation and hygiene development in cities

    SENEGAL, 2013/03/04 Team Shinsekai from Senegal are the winners of the Ericsson "Apps for African City Life" Awards for developing an app that aims to support environmental sanitation and hygiene development in cities. Second and third prizes went to two Kenyan teams, Easy Parking for their application aimed at helping motorists locate and pay for available parking areas thus reducing fuel consumption, and Tokelezea for their app which enables individuals to locate events and places around them and share the data with their friends.
  • Governor Ibrahim Shehu

    NIGERIA, 2013/03/03 Since Dr Ibrahim Shehu Shema became governor of Katsina National in northern Nigeria in 2007, his priorities and policies have focused on unearthing its potential – that is the potential of its land and, additional importantly, of its people. The Nigerian state has given much attention to its education sector, and according to its governor, now needs outside investors to help it take full advantage of its agriculture and mining industries.
  • The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Joaquim Sebastião Bento

    ANGOLA, 2013/01/13  The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Joaquim Sebastião Bento defended Saturday in the municipality of Icolo e Bengo that there has to be a study intended to minimize the problem of children outside the schoolling system.