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The European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a financing agreement of EUR 250 million with Banque Misr to finance investments by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and midcaps in the manufacturing and services sectors to improve their competitiveness in Egypt. The financing agreement is expected to sustain thousands of jobs
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The first Regional Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance was held in Cape Town at the beginning of November. Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International (www.Transparency.org), who addressed the event, reflects on the vital importance of openness and transparency for successful and sustainable infrastructure projects. Corruption is nothing new and
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Samy Badibanga, l’ex-Premier Ministre du Congo lance un appel d’urgence à une conférence internationale des donateurs : Premier ministre honoraire de la RDC, je me joins à l’appel d’urgence des églises catholiques et protestantes du Congo lancé à la communauté internationale pour une conférence internationale des
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On Sunday, December 10, U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Thomas H. Goldberger presented graduation certificates to 370 young Egyptians from Cairo, Alexandria, and the Nile Delta on their completion of the Access English Language Program. An additional 300 students from Upper Egypt will receive their graduation certificates in a
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The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) will embark on a tour of the Working for the Coast (WftC) project at the Eastern Beach, located next to Ebuhlanti Picnic Park in East London, Eastern Cape on Wednesday 13 December 2017. The tour forms part of the DEA’s campaign aimed at
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MainOne (www.MainOne.net) et Tizeti (www.Tizeti.com) ont annoncé aujourd’hui l’achèvement d’un projet de développement conjoint avec Facebook pour permettre l’expansion des services Internet à Lagos. Ce partenariat tirera parti de la connectivité par fibre optique de MainOne, des vingt nouvelles tours alimentées à
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La capitale sénégalaise a accueilli durant la semaine du 4 au 8 décembre dernier, dans les locaux de l’Institut supérieur de Management de Dakar (ISM), la troisième semaine de formation sur le programme « Women Entrepreneurs Business Education » de la Fondation BGFIBank (www.Fondation-BGFIbank.com), dédié au développement de
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At a breakfast table in the noisy restaurant of a hotel in Shenzhen, I met Kwame Song Dongshong, now President of the Powerchina International Group Limited. The company that built the iconic Three Gorges in China, is a behemoth by its own description in ‘planning, survey, design, engineering, through finance,
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The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) appreciates the deal struck between the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) and the South African Post Office (Sapo), which brings to an end the uncertainty and anxiety of grant recipients and the nation at large. The Committee condemns Sassa’s incompetence and
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Members of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan today began their fourth field mission to South Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia which will last from 11 to 22 December 2017. The two Commissioners taking part in the mission, Yasmin Sooka and Andrew Clapham*, will be in South Sudan
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Statement by Foreign Minister Taro Kono on the attack on peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1. The attack against the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) at North Kivu on 7 December 2017 caused many casualties of Tanzanian peacekeepers as
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On December 6, Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Foreign Affairs, paid a courtesy call on [H.E. Mr. Rakotoarimanana Hery Martial Rajaonarimampianina, President of the Republic of Madagascar, who is paying an official visit to Japan](http://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_001805.html). The overview is as