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Ghana targets annual growth of at least 8 pct in next four years Reuters ACCRA – Ghana will target minimum GDP growth of 8 percent over each of the next four years, President John Dramani Mahama said on Feb 21, 2013 in his first state of the nation address since his election in December. The […]

Vietnam set to further facilitate trade with Africa By Le Phuong Xinhua HANOI — Vietnam plans to further facilitate trade with Africa, a potentially populated market with over 1 billion people. It expects to pocket about 3.12 billion U.S. dollars from the exports to this continent in 2013, an increase of 20 percent year on […]

South Africa: President Zuma vows to deepen cooperation with China Xinhua South Africa is ready and looking forward to meeting Chinese leaders at the BRICS summit and pledged to deepen cooperation with China, South African President Jacob Zuma told visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Cape Town on Tuesday. South Africa wishes to deepen […]

Ghana government moves back to Flagstaff House By Francis Kokutse | IANS ACCRA- Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama will Thursday, Feb 7, 2013 officially move the seat of the government of the West African nation from the old colonial slave post Osu Castle to the Flagstaff House built with India’s help. Minister for Information and […]

Cuba elects new national, local parliaments Xinhua HAVANA– Over 8.5 million Cubans on Sunday started to cast their votes for the picking of nearly 1,900 members of the country’s new national and provincial legislatures. They are expected to elect 612 National Assembly members from an equal number of candidates, and select nearly 1,270 delegates to […]

General Electric signs $1 Billion memorandum of understanding with Nigeria Investment is expected to create 2,300 jobs and make Nigeria the regional hub for GE’s manufacturing service and innovation in Africa. Agence France-Presse ABUJA — Nigeria has signed a $1 billion memorandum of understanding with General Electric to build a factory that could create up […]

Obama administration established U.S. drone base in Africa approved by Niger Reuters NIAMEY- Niger has given permission for U.S. surveillance drones to be stationed on its territory to improve intelligence on al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters in northern Mali and the wider Sahara, a senior government source said. The U.S. ambassador to Niger, Bisa Williams, made […]

Mali conflict: France has opened gates of hell, say rebels Islamist militant leader warns French government as fighter jets continue assault on rebel camps and convoys in central Mali Afua Hirsch in Bamako and Kim Willsher in Paris The Guardian Islamist fighters in Mali captured a central town on Monday as a ferocious campaign of […]

U.S. Army teams going to Africa as terror threat grows By By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. Army brigade will begin sending small teams into as many as 35 African nations early next year, part of an intensifying Pentagon effort to train countries to battle extremists and give the U.S. […]

Ghana discovers more oil off western coast Xinhua ACCRA– The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on Wednesday announced the discovery of more oil off the western shores of the country. The discovery, made at the Pecan-1 exploration well located in the Deepwater Tano/Cape Three Points block, is by far the fifth made in the block, […]