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Leaders of the world’s eight biggest industrialized nations have promised to boost development assistance to Africa by U.S. $25 billion a year over 2004 levels by 2010.
Group of 8 leaders will agree to fight trade protectionism and mobilise billions over the next three years to boost agricultural investment in the developing world, according to reports.
Trade between Spain and Equatorial Guinea is flourishing, amidst calls by activists for the government of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to push for democracy in this tiny country on the Atlantic coast of Africa, still under the yoke of dictatorship.
Initially, the Rwandan coffee sector focused on quantity rather than quality. Yet in the early 2000s, a new strategy for the sector was introduced which led to a boom in coffee washing stations being built to improve the quality and add value to the coffee. Moreover, farmers switched to varieties that were more appropriate for the so-called "specialty coffee" market.
The United Nations and the African Union today launched a new tool, designed in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation, to help map investment flows on the continent and provide business leaders the information they need to make sound decisions.
As Ghanaians gear up for President Barack Obama's arrival on 10 July - his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa - they are mixing high hopes with caution.
Leaders of the world's eight major industrialized countries meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, have devoted about one-third of their declaration to African issues. The verbatim text of the relevant section follows. The full declaration is available from the AllAfrica resources page.
Robert Fox, the executive director of Oxfam Canada, writes on the G8 meetings in Italy:
THE Senate committee on Banking and Insurance has summoned the Governor of the Central Bank (CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and the Managing Director of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Mr. Ganiyu Ogunleye to reconcile positions on the N49 billion debt owed by directors of failed banks.
CIVIL society is rallying behind Government in its decision to take on the European Commission (EC), lobbying for support not to sign the interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) until the EC puts agreed trade concessions on infant industry protection, food security, export taxes and free goods flow in writing.
A two day international investment conference opened in Harare on Thursday, where the three political leaders to the Global Political Agreement sought to promote the country as an investment destination.
A newly published report by the UN environmental agency underscores how environmental investments can get the global and national economies back to sustainable work.
United Nations humanitarian agencies operating in Benin are conducting rapid assessments to determine how they can best assist the thousands of people caught up in the heavy floods that have struck the West African country.
In certain villages throughout Ghana, poor farmers and field workers recently received a simple, yet strong, investment in their quest for a better life: a pair of boots. It may seem like a simple solution for a complex problem, but it is just one piece in a remarkable effort underway. The provision of boots, seeds, fertilizers, and nine weeks of expert training signals an innovative and ...
The principal director in the Ministry of Economic Planning has told our correspondent he will not be allowed to cover the International Investment conference in Harare that begins Thursday, because he is not accredited with the legally defunct Media Information Commission (MIC).
A strategic investment in the commercial cultivation of papaya (paw paw) could boost the country's export earnings and contribute substantially to the country's economic growth, the Federation of Associations of Ghana Exporters (FAGE) has observed.
The East African Community (EAC), which now has a total population of 127 million people and thus constitutes a viable market for major investment, recently undertook a first joint commercial mission to Canada to woo local entrepreneurs as well as the East African Diaspora to invest in the region.
In the World Bank's annual Doing Business report, which assesses the investment climate in countries worldwide, setting up a business is the first indicator. However, before the new company law came into power, Rwanda was using the 1988 company act which made company registration a cumbersome process taking at least 16 days.
University lecturer Hermenegildo Mateus Mille Bento on Wednesday in Luanda, in an interview to ANGOP, said that Angola's participation in the G8 Summit might attract more foreign investment.
Trade between Angola and Italy may reach one billion US Dollars by 2010, Angop learned in L'Aquila, the scene of the G-8 summit, to be attended by Angolan president, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, as "Guest of Honour" of italian prime-minister, Silvio Berlusconi, the chairman of the conference.
UNKNOWN investors have fenced off what remains of Kololo SSS sports ground despite protests from the schools officials.
In the last few days, small-scale farmers in Nigeria and other parts of the continent attempted to set the agenda, or better still, influence the agenda of heads of state and government who met in Sirte, the birth place of current AU chairman and president of Libya, Muammar Gaddaffi from June 30 to July 3.
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Lamido Sanusi won strong approval from foreign investors when he used his first policy meeting to unveil a root-and-branch reform of the country's chaotic banking system.
CURRENT revenue collection practices at international and inter-state borders in Southern Sudan are harming trade and are clearly open to corrupt practices, a report has stated.
Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS) has chosen Osun state as a pilot State to implement its ECOWAS -China Economic Partnership scheme.
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