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Zimbabwe, China ink 8 billion dollar investment deal: report Harare (AFP) Nov 19, 2009 
Zimbabwe's government and a Chinese investment company have signed an eight billion dollars investment deal, the biggest since the unity government was set up, state media reported on Thursday. The signing of five agreements with China Sonangol, a private joint venture with Angola's state oil firm, will target gold and platinum refining, oil and gas exploration, fuel purchase and ... read moreUS 'deeply concerned' by reported SAfrica training in Guinea 
Washington (AFP) Nov 19, 2009The United States is "deeply concerned" by reports that South African "military instructors" are training militiamen backed by the ruling junta in Guinea, a US official said Thursday. "The United States has received reports of 40 or 50 South African military instructors training militia members in Guinea, including some under the age of 18," the State Department official told AFP on the ... more
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S.Korea, African Union to hold high-level forum
Seoul (AFP) Nov 18, 2009 More than 100 top African politicians and officials are to travel to South Korea to discuss working together on economic development and the environment, the government here said Wednesday. Among the 120 delegates expected at the second Korea-Africa Forum on Tuesday are Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping and diplomats from 15 African countries ... more Somalia's neighbors face war threats
Nairobi, Kenya (UPI) Nov 17, 2009 Kenya could be dragged into the conflict on Somalia after Islamist militants, allegedly linked to al-Qaida, threatened to attack the East African state if it continued to support the Western-backed Transitional Federal Government in war-battered Mogadishu. The rebels have also threatened Uganda and Burundi because they have deployed peacekeeping troops in Somalia to help prop up the ... more S.Africans, Israelis training Guinea junta: witnesses
Dakar (AFP) Nov 16, 2009South African and Israeli army instructors, hired by the ruling Guinea junta, are training pro-junta recruits in a camp in Forecariah (100 kilometres, 62 miles south of Conakry), witnesses said Monday. The new soldiers recruited by the junta, which seized power in Guinea on December 23 last year, are being trained in a camp formerly used to house Sierra Leone refugees outside Forecariah. ... more U.N. probes rich states' African land grab 
Rome (UPI) Nov 12, 2009 Fifty heads of state will meet in Rome Sunday to examine the way that rich Middle Eastern and Asian states are buying up vast tracts of farmland in Africa, often secretly, in what is seen as a massive land grab that will worsen conditions in the world's hungriest continent. All told, some 50 million acres of arable land across Africa have been gobbled up by foreign governments or ... more |
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Nigeria banks on River Niger to boost commerce, navigation
Lokoja, Nigeria (AFP) Nov 8, 2009After decades of delay and wrangling by resisting riverine communities, Nigeria has launched a multi-million-dollar dredging exercise to boost navigation and commerce on the Niger River. Plans are to deepen the river channel and stabilise its banks along a stretch of 572 kilometers (376 miles) as to allow passage of large vessels and open up inland ports. "The goal is to activate the nav ... more China PM heads to Egypt for Africa summit 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2009Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao headed to Egypt on Friday for a summit with African leaders as Beijing bids to expand its diplomatic and economic influence on the resource-rich continent. Wen will hold talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif before the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation begins on Sunday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Chinese compan ... more Opposition seeks interim gov't after Guinea bloodbath
Ouagadougou (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Guinea's opposition on Wednesday called for the formation of an interim government after a massacre in September by forces loyal to a military junta which seized power late last year. They made the demand to Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, who is mediating in the mineral-rich west African country following a bloodbath on September 28 of more than 150 people who had rallied to persuad ... more China-Africa summit seeks to boost trade and 'brotherhood'
Cairo (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Leaders from China and Africa start a three day summit on Sunday that will again throw the spotlight on Beijing's strategic sweep for energy, minerals and political influence in the continent. China has over the past decade paid for dams, power stations, football stadiums across Africa and scooped up copper, oil and other fuel for its breakneck economic expansion from Algeria to Zimbabwe. ... more |
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