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afrol News, 17 March - Experts are meeting at a gathering of the United Nations agency promoting commerce to fight poverty to find ways to help developing countries improve so-called infrastructure service sectors (ISS), which serve key functions including banking, energy and transportation.

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afrol News, 15 March - By tomorrow, Madagascar coup President Andry Rajoelina has to implement a power-sharing deal to avoid the imposition of full African Union sanctions on 17 March. Also the US and Europe have threatened to move from the current suspension of aid to concrete sanctions.

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» 10.03.2010 - Call for common African food market
» 09.03.2010 - West Africa enters intl organic food market
» 08.03.2010 - Great potentials in intra-African trade
» 03.03.2010 - More black-outs for SA after World Cup
» 02.03.2010 - SAB strategises for World Cup gains
» 02.03.2010 - Obama extends Zim sanctions for another year
» 01.03.2010 - Heading for another economic disaster
» 25.02.2010 - SA’s consumer price increased for January
» 23.02.2010 - SA airlines need more investments
» 23.02.2010 - Nigeria appeals for power back-up
» 22.02.2010 - Africa’s economic growth projected at 7 percent
» 19.02.2010 - World Gold Council welcomes IMF gold sales
» 16.02.2010 - Government approves $250 mln for agro-credit
» 15.02.2010 - Police chief sentenced to 7 years
» 11.02.2010 - Egypt opens country’s investment potential
» 11.02.2010 - Rwanda to get first eID in six months
» 08.02.2010 - Study reveals sub-standard malaria medicines in Africa
» 08.02.2010 - Algeria seeks to reduce swine flu vaccines order
» 04.02.2010 - Capital flows to developing countries declining
» 04.02.2010 - UN ammunition illegally impounded
» 02.02.2010 - Vast Egyptian land reserved for development
» 27.01.2010 - ‘Agriculture makes good business sense’ – IFAD
» 27.01.2010 - Australia entrust SA with Zim recovery funding
» 27.01.2010 - Nigeria seizes fake drugs
» 26.01.2010 - UN anti-crime agency help set up police academy in Guinea-Bissau
» 22.01.2010 - $20 million loan to support smallholder agribusiness in Zambia
» 22.01.2010 - Legislators discuss common market protocol in Burundi
» 20.01.2010 - INTERPOL to create task force against maritime piracy
» 20.01.2010 - Tighten controls on military assistance to Somalia - AI
» 14.01.2010 - Ethiopia launches hydro-power plant
» 14.01.2010 - Rising electricity demand boosts the African wind turbine market, study
» 13.01.2010 - Giant Shell workers abducted in Niger Delta
» 13.01.2010 - China re-commits to Africa’s development
» 11.01.2010 - SA's 35% tariff-hike for public scrutiny
» 11.01.2010 - Benga coal mining approved
» 11.01.2010 - Sierra Leone government bans logging
» 05.01.2010 - Tunisia to speed up privatisation to stimulate economy
» 05.01.2010 - Govt sued to disclose oil deals
» 04.01.2010 - African states listed under tough US security checks
» 04.01.2010 - Rhino poachers arrested in Kenya
» 22.12.2009 - Tea prices to stabilise with normal weather in 2010
» 22.12.2009 - Kenya to counter Tanzania's Ivory sales proposal
» 21.12.2009 - Environmentalists fight developments in Tana River
» 21.12.2009 - Bannerman lodges application for Uranium mining in Namibia
» 18.12.2009 - Liberia exempted from arms embargo
» 17.12.2009 - New centres raise cassava’s outlook in Sierra Leone
» 17.12.2009 - Ghana launches draft National Alcohol Policy
» 15.12.2009 - Local NGO denounces deregulation law
» 15.12.2009 - Experts reach conclusion to limit trade on aquatic animals under CITES
» 14.12.2009 - Campaign to end abuse on migrants to be launched
» 11.12.2009 - Britain bans 20 Kenyan officials
» 11.12.2009 - Uganda funding for road transport development approved
» 11.12.2009 - Sudan and Angola strike a deal with Vietnamese group
» 11.12.2009 - Rights groups hails aid suspension in Niger
» 10.12.2009 - Inter-state rail link to get finances
» 10.12.2009 - Algeria’s energy firm to go into joint venture
» 09.12.2009 - SA airliner could be grounded
» 08.12.2009 - Minister says SA skies among world safest
» 07.12.2009 - Egypt calls off search for ferry collision victims
» 03.12.2009 - INTERPOL and FIFA set up international taskforce against illegal sports betting
» 02.12.2009 - Zambia and Zimbabwe to launch One Stop Border Post
» 02.12.2009 - Swiss nationals get jail terms in Libya
» 01.12.2009 - MTN receives $18 million for network upgrade
» 01.12.2009 - INTERPOL-Africa operation seize illegal Ivory
» 01.12.2009 - World Food buys gold mines in Ghana
» 30.11.2009 - Rwanda finally joins Commonwealth
» 30.11.2009 - Ethiopia saves million from Sudanese oil imports
» 26.11.2009 - Review Rwanda’s human rights records first - Green parties
» 25.11.2009 - Kenya cuts lending rate to 7 percent
» 25.11.2009 - Nigerian cyber fraudster in court
» 25.11.2009 - WFP told to buy local agricultural produce
» 24.11.2009 - Angola secures $1.4 billion stand-by arrangement with IMF
» 24.11.2009 - Africa’s think-tank discuss response to global financial crisis
» 24.11.2009 - Kenya to end power shortages
» 24.11.2009 - $6 million to boost rural agricultural finance in Ghana
» 23.11.2009 - S/Korea to double aid to Africa
» 20.11.2009 - Ghana-EU sign first voluntary agreement on legal timber exports
» 20.11.2009 - Industrial development key to Africa’s integration in global economy
» 19.11.2009 - Developing countries urged to make agriculture a funding priority
» 19.11.2009 - Concluding Doha Round could boost recovery, WB
» 19.11.2009 - Zim govt report compliance progress to clean its diamond trade
» 19.11.2009 - Orascom to contest $6 mln tax bill
» 17.11.2009 - Countries in conflict greatly challenged by corruption
» 17.11.2009 - IMF announces sale of tons of gold to Mauritius
» 17.11.2009 - Algerian company celebrate first order for Boeing
» 17.11.2009 - Suspected Somali pirates seize Korean tanker
» 16.11.2009 - Lower levies on trade – federation official calls
» 16.11.2009 - Increased Internet access to boost economic growth, forum
» 11.11.2009 - Africa’s poor to suffer due high food prices
» 11.11.2009 - Somali pirates seize SA bound cargo ship
» 11.11.2009 - Djibouti forcibly repatriates Somali asylum seekers
» 10.11.2009 - China-Africa commitments applauded
» 10.11.2009 - SA hotel industry warned of price inflation
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