African Union lays foundation stone for China-funded conference centre
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China and the African Union on Friday launched a 150-million-dollar project to build a new conference centre for the cash-strapped continental body, officials said.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao signed economic and agricultural deals in South Africa on Tuesday as part of his tour of Africa, where there are concerns such agreements will only hurt the continent's poor countries.
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President Hu Jintao, apparently seeking to ease concerns over China's investment drive in Africa, said on Wednesday that Beijing's business interests would not hurt the continent.
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China's aggressive courtship of Africa can benefit that poor continent, but shady Chinese businessmen and no-questions-asked aid policies could backfire, on Beijing, U.S. and African experts said on Thursday.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has refuted any suggestion that Beijing was forming neo-colonialist ties with Africa in its bid to access the vast natural resources of the world's poorest continent.
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BERLIN, May 30 (IPS) - In the preparations for this year's summit of  the Group of Eight most industrialised countries, to take place  Jun. 6-8 in the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm, Germany,  aid for Africa has topped the agenda. But the farm subsidy factor  is likely to be avoided in the debate.
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China and the European Union are making efforts to map out a new agreement, aimed at nailing down their strategic partnership into legal framework amid ever stronger political and economic relations.Comment
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Chinese President Hu Jintao began a 12-day tour of Africa, his third since coming to power in 2003, stepping up China's campaign to win a larger share of Africa's oil and energy resources.
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The Football Association has given the go-ahead for a national football centre to be built following a board meeting.
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China signed a deal here Monday to loan the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo five billion dollars (3.6 billion euros) to build up infrastructure and develop its mining industry.
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How to create sustainable employment for impoverished, mostly illiterate African populations residing primarily in rural areas is the challenge the African Union aims to tackle at a summit opening Wednesday in Burkina Faso.
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Shanghai, a financial and economic center of China, pledged to build itself into an air transport hub for Asia and Pacific region and a key link in the world&#39;s aviation network
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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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The latest scheme to spread  electric light in Africa may sound familiar, but this time  African leaders say they have the will, and financial backing,  to succeed.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders meeting in Germany turned their attention to Africa on Friday, agreeing a $60 billion pledge to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging the continent, according to a diplomat.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao jets in to South Africa on Tuesday to buttress ties with Beijing's main trading partner on the continent and a key ally in pushing the developing world's agenda.
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The United Nations and the African Union kicked off a high-level meeting on Darfur on Friday in hopes of speeding up deployment of a peacekeeping force and expanding humanitarian aid.