Photos: Brazil’s World Cup opening ceremony shines in beautiful colours
14/06/2014With all of the issues and questions leading up to the World Cup, the new Arena de Sao Paulo — also known as Corinthians Arena — shined under blue skies.
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Africa: Promoting Private Capital to Fuel Africa’s Energy Growth – U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz
04/06/2014Washington, DC —This week the governments of the United States and Ethiopia are co-hosting a high-level meeting of African energy ministers, civil society and development organizations, researchers and some 30.
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Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won a landslide victory in a presidential election
30/05/2014Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won a landslide victory in a presidential election on Thursday but a low turnout threatened to deprive him of the strong mandate he.
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African Development Bank (AfDB) and China Set Up $2 Billion Fund
23/05/2014The Chinese government and the African Development Bank have entered a new $2-billion (about Rwf 1.5 trillion) financing agreement setting up an Africa-wide investment vehicle dubbed, “Africa Growing Together Fund.”.
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Analysis: How Social Media ‘Twitter’ Built Global Outrage On Abduction of Nigerian Girls
15/05/2014The international vortex of tweets that brought huge global attention over the missing schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents, is fast ebbing, drawing worried concerns to the fickle nature of.
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African Nations Name World Cup Squads
14/05/2014CAMEROON Cameroon coach Volker Finke unveiled his preliminary 28-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ starting on 12 June. Cameroon are competing in their seventh World Cup finals,.
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Africa is Ripe for Investment
02/05/2014US has just announced that it has invited over 47 African leaders to Washington for a US-Africa Summit. The summit is going to focus on trade. It comes up as.
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10 Of Africa’s Longest-Serving Dictators
27/04/2014Of the world’s 30 longest-serving leaders – some would call them dictators – 14 are in Africa. Can you guess which ones make the top-10 list? 1. Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
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Dangote, Okonjo-Iweala And Other Africans Named Among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People
27/04/2014The Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, along with the President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, were on Thursday named by Time Magazine among the world’s 100 most influential people for 2014..
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Meet media mogul Mo Abudu ‘Africa’s Oprah Winfrey’ and how she conquered a continent
22/04/2014With no TV experience whatsoever, Mo Abudu has become the “Oprah of Africa” — it’s impossible not to read an interview with the glamorous 49-year-old without the moniker cropping up..
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