Chinese and Indian trade and investment in Africa would underpin the continent's emergence from the global financial crisis, but its longer-term salvation would come from regional economic integration, National Planning Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel said yesterday.
As part of the post-amnesty arrangements and in its determined efforts to engage the youths of the Niger Delta, the New Partnership for Africa's Development NEPAD has said it would engage 15,000 youths in establishing integrated farms in the three senatorial districts of Rivers State.
The attention of the APRM Continental Secretariat has been drawn to the article entitled ''APRM at the Crossroads: Where is the African Union Leadership?'' written by one Jerry Okungu and uploaded in the New Vision Online of Uganda on Friday, 4th September, 2009.
"It seems Zambia is locked in a deadlock of international and local commitments that it does not fulfil but keep bragging about. These commitments include the international and regional treaties, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), national planning commitments like the National Development Plans, Vision 2030, the Indaba, fight against corruption, the never-ending Constitution-making process, ...