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  • South African Markets - Factors to watch on Dec 2 2 Dec 2009 05:55 GMT
    ... straight day, and Asian stocks advanced as investors chased riskier assets offering higher returns. The ... will sign a memorandum of understanding to invest more than $2 billion in Indonesia's coal ... sector, Gita Wirjawan, the head of Indonesia's investment board, said on Wednesday. South Africa, which ...

  • Mali: Land grab fears linger 2 Dec 2009 08:12 GMT
    ... lease more than 11,000 hectares to the West African Economic and Monetary Union, told IRIN: “Land deals ... called such deals land grabs LINK by investors seeking produce for their own countries, but ...

  • FACTBOX-Key risks in emerging Europe, Middle East, Africa 2 Dec 2009 04:37 GMT
    ... of the financial crisis so far. Most investors still hope oil-rich fellow emirate Abu Dhabi ... also deter investors across emerging markets from investing in quasi-sovereign state owned companies. Things to ... for medical treatment last week, potentially raising investment risks in Africa's most populous country and ...

  • HIV/AIDS in Africa: What Should Africa's Business Executives Do? 2 Dec 2009 05:11 GMT
    ... HIV/AIDS remains a major health and development challenge ... production as farmers succumb to AIDS and investments fall on irrigation projects and purchase of ... cash strapped African governments are unlikely to invest significantly in the immediate operational areas of ...

  • Nigeria - Farmers struggling with conflict and droght 2 Dec 2009 00:31 GMT
    ... Nigeria - Farmers struggling with conflict and droght  ... the developing countries, especially those from the African continent, are worst affected given the decline ... intensify production and have also discouraged private investment and continuous utilisation on a long-term basis. ...

  • African Markets - Factors to watch on Dec 2 2 Dec 2009 06:30 GMT
    ... market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. Gold surged to an ... straight day, and Asian stocks advanced as investors chased riskier assets offering higher returns. Spot ... incapacitated. For a Scenarios piece, click on Nigeria's Senate President gave the appropriations committee a ...

  • GE Oil & Gas, Rockson Engineering Win $230m Contract For Nigeria Power Plant 2 Dec 2009 07:35 GMT
    ... GE Oil & Gas, Rockson Engineering Win $230m Contract For ... Scenarelli, region sales executive of Sub Saharan Africa at GE Oil & Gas, said: "GE ... infrastructure and are committed to continued long-term investment in the country." The contract award is ...

  • We Have no Business Being Poor!- President Koroma 2 Dec 2009 05:58 GMT
    ... a place for charity, but not for investment. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, average annual growth in ... in Sub-Saharan Africa when it comes to investor protection and the ease of starting a ... my conviction that... it is time... to invest...in Sierra Leone! By HE President Koroma, President ...

  • Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Administrator Designate Dr. Rajiv Shah De 2 Dec 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations ... Foundation. I developed strategies and managed significant investments aimed at changing the lives of some ... accelerate vaccine introductions, establish long-term, predictable finance, invest in sustainable health systems development, and document ...

  • Land grab fears linger 2 Dec 2009 06:34 GMT
    ... lease more than 11,000 hectares to the West African Economic and Monetary Union, told IRIN: “Land deals ... called such deals land grabs LINK by investors seeking produce for their own countries, but ...

  • Brazil wins cotton war but US cuts no subsidies 2 Dec 2009 03:11 GMT
    ... Brazil wins cotton war but US cuts no subsidies ... of millions of cotton farmers in west Africa. The subsidies have helped to ensure that ... other global producers "have their production and investment decisions (hit) in the long term by ...

  • Agri-professionals hunt for gold to boost farming 2 Dec 2009 06:34 GMT
    ... agri-business, expanding their farming operations to Ghana, Africa. Through their new funding structure, they have ... growth!” However, getting to the point of investment was extremely difficult for World Food. The investors of World Food started out with some ...

  • Agri professionals hunt for gold to boost farming 2 Dec 2009 06:53 GMT
    ... agri-business, expanding their farming operations to Ghana, Africa. Through their new funding structure, they have ... growth!” However, getting to the point of investment was extremely difficult for World Food. The investors of World Food started out with some ...

  • Universal Access and Human Rights 2 Dec 2009 03:53 GMT
    ... for $8 a day to reach over 30,000 people Offers ... around two-thirds are people living in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an AIDS epidemic update by ... General of WHO states, “international and national investment in HIV treatment scale-up have yielded concrete ...

  • World AIDS Day: IAC to be held in D.C.; examination of Obama's HIV/AIDS efforts; UNICEF report 2 Dec 2009 07:16 GMT
    ... During a briefing on the eve of  Monday, Secretary ... outcomes," ABC's " released by Health GAP, Africa Action, Treatment Action Group and the Global ... first time essentially flat-fund U.S. global AIDS investments - it will not even keep pace ...

  • Smile Communications launches VoIP service in Uganda 2 Dec 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... phone. In its home market of South Africa, Smile operates through agents, who provide mobile ... has also acquired operational licenses in Tanzania, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Smile ... owned by a consortium of Saudi Arabian investors, Charnely, and South Africans Paul Savage and ...

  • Mining sector to contribute USD0.50bn revenue in four years 2 Dec 2009 08:13 GMT
    ... The mining industry in Tanzania is expected to contribute ... the same extent as some of her African neighbours. A 2008 report by Business & ... a good infrastructural system that discourages potential investment in the industry, say economists. Adherence to ...

  • PRECIOUS-Gold hits record for 2nd day, eyes dollar 2 Dec 2009 01:00 GMT
    ... uncertainty over Dubai's credit woes kept attracting investors. * Spot gold XAU= rose as high ... Spall[ID:nN01492618] >AngloGold agrees three-yr salary deal in Ghana [ID:nGEE5B01TA] >New investor cash to flood commds-Standard ... investor cash to flood commds-Standard Bank [ID:nGEE5B01RP] >S.Africa's Eskom cuts price hike request [ID:nGEE5B001X] >Harmony ...

  • Good news on AIDS front, new infections down by over 100,000 2 Dec 2009 05:40 GMT
    ... New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) India had reassuring news ... of absolute numbers in the world. South Africa and Nigeria are the top two countries. ... (NACO) told IANS. He said the huge investment to tackle HIV/AIDS and the large-scale awareness ...

  • New AIDS infections down by over 1 lakh 2 Dec 2009 06:33 GMT
    ... India had reassuring news on the HIV/AIDS front on ... of absolute numbers in the world. South Africa and Nigeria are the top two countries. ... (NACO) told . He said the huge investment to tackle HIV/AIDS and the large-scale awareness ...

  • Federation of West African Chamber of Commerce and Industry meet in Accra 1 Dec 2009 00:50 GMT
    ... General News of Monday, 30 November 2009 Federation of West African Chamber of Commerce and Industry meet in ... to promote the integration agenda and facilitate investment and trade from within and outside the ...

  • Key Officials address All Africa Mining Summit in Accra 1 Dec 2009 15:54 GMT
    ... Key Officials address All Africa Mining Summit in Accra Key officials and ... more Showcasing Africa as a top mining investment destination and the potential of Ghana as ... partnerships and build significant business leads with investors, stakeholders, potential collaborators as well as the ...

  • Liberia pledges support to small farmers 1 Dec 2009 16:10 GMT
    ... Politics | Economy - Development | Agriculture - ... alleviating poverty in Liberia, calling for increased investment in smallholder farming. “Farmers are the key ... the key drivers of this phenomenon in Africa. Mr Soumaré on the other hand said ...

  • African Gold Group, Inc. Announces a Bought Deal Private Placement of 8,400,000 Units for Gross Proceeds of $5,040,000 1 Dec 2009 22:02 GMT
    ... African Gold Group, Inc. Announces a Bought Deal ... be available for sale to qualified offshore investors and to "accredited investors" in all of ... are situated along significant gold trends within West Africa. To date, the Company controls a total ...

  • PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on Victory Nickel Inc., Avion Gold Corporation, Mart Resources Inc., Staples Inc. and China Crescent Enterprises 1 Dec 2009 16:51 GMT
    ... PicksThatMove.com Announces Investment Opinion on Victory Nickel Inc., Avion Gold ... by PicksThatMove.com )--PicksThatMove is pleased to bring investors special situation stocks which have a high ... you do your own Due Diligence before investing in any of the stocks mentioned above. ...


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