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Canada intends to return to the forefront on African development issues, beginning with a renewed effort at helping the troubled continent grow out of poverty, says Finance Minister Ralph Goodale.
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PARIS, Jul 23 (IPS) - While China's growing trade and investment  flows to Africa have sparked a sometimes contentious debate with  the United States and Europe over who has the continent's  best interests at heart, a closer look at the dynamic developing  reveals a political landscape where the rhetoric is rarely in  line with the reality, observers say.
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Africa urged to support agricultural research   JOHANNESBURG, June 5 (Xinhua) - African countries have been urged to pledge more financial supports to agricultural research in order to boost agricultural production, secure food supply and contribute to development.
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DURBAN, South Africa  - Developing countries have pledged to band together to force the West to help tackle their problems, ranging from poverty to reform of the United Nations.
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ACCRA, Ghana -- This small West African nation may seem a bit ho hum compared to much of the restive continent, with its functioning democracy, paved roads, friendly police, and growing economy.
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WINDHOEK, February 15  (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC)  should engage in serious discussions to prevent the economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union from  destroying its regional integration efforts.
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs  has a novel way to tackle African poverty: Shower more aid on  the world's poorest continent.
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While most of the country&#39;s attention has been focused on Iraq, a human-rights crisis has been unfolding in north Africa. In Darfur, Sudan, more than 50,000 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced
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LISBON, Dec 13 (IPS) - War, AIDS, malaria, cholera and famine have  gradually turned Africa into a continent full of orphaned  children and teenagers.
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Long-lasting problems affecting Africa can only be solved by Africans through peace, democracy and good governance, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai said yesterday.
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Africa's economy will grow faster this year, but changes are still needed for it to catch up with the rest of the world.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada intends to return to the forefront on African development issues, beginning with a renewed effort at helping the troubled continent grow out of poverty, says Finance Minister Ralph Goodale.
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BRUSSELS, Jun 22 (IPS) - Increases in development aid will not be sufficient  to reach the United Nations targets on improving health in poor  countries, a new European Parliament report has warned.
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(InfoWorld) - Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, and Mauritius will be the initial countries for the Indian government's $1 billion Pan Africa E-network project, a joint initiative with the Africa Union (AU). The project aims to develop Africa's information and communication technologies by eventually connecting all of the 53 African countries to a satellite and fiber-optic network. To launch first in Ethiopia, the project is seen by some as Africa's biggest ICT project ever, with online education and telemedicine programs expected to extend ICT infrastructure to rural areas and other underserved communities. India hopes the investment will help it to sell more telecoms gear to Africa, including VSATs (very small aperture terminals), as well as IT services for telemedicine and other social applications. It has said it wants to make inroads into Africa's ICT markets before China steps up its investments there. The telemedicine network will be used to share knowledge from Indian doctors with their African counterparts through online training programs, River Wallang, the Indian High commissioner to Zambia, said in an interview last month in Lusaka. The education network will allow similar information sharing, he said. Africa faces several challenges to building out its ITC infrastructure, including nonexistent or low capacity national and international communications backbones, Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa said recently. âAfrica needs nothing less than the development of broadband infrastructure if the continent is to move together with the rest of the world,â he said, at an event to launch the cellZ network (mobile phone service provider) in Zambia's western province last month. The Africa Development Bank has also announced plans to invest $1 billion in the continent's telecommunication and energy infrastructures. The E-network project was first announced by Indian president Abdul Kalam in South Africa in 2004. In October 2005, the Indian government and the Africa Union signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize the project. The AU, in Addis Ababa, is an organization chartered to accelerate economic development and peace in Africa. The Indian government has already established tele-education and telemedicine hubs in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. It will establish a hub in Africa to act as the main contact point between Africa and India and oversee the delivery of services. ICT has been identified as the main growth area in India-Africa trade relations, Erastus Mwencha, secretary general for The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), said recently.
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African economies face a daunting challenge to catch up with the rest of the world after missing out on two decades of growth, a new report by the World Bank has said.
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More than 25 heads of state meet in Nigeria to try to resolve some of the Africa's most pressing problems.
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How to tap and protect Africa's natural resources, the continent's role in the world and the information age's impact on African society are pressing themes as a summit of African leaders opens Thursday.Comment