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World Bank President to Tour Three African Countries
The World Bank President, Robert B. Zoellick, will tour three African countries from Tuesday that include Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire and Ethiopia, where he intends to take part in the African Union summit scheduled to be held in Addis Ababa. On this...
World Bank Provides $2.8 Million to Liberia for Road Rehabilitation
The World Bank has provided $2.8 million for the Liberian government through the Urban and Rural Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project for reconstruction of the highway connecting Pleebo in Maryland County and Barclayville in Grand Kru County in south-eastern...
Camera Traps Capture First-time Film of Rare Tigress And Cubs
Camera traps deep in the Sumatran jungle have captured first-time images of a rare female tiger and her cubs, giving researchers unique insight into the elusive tiger’s behavior.
Social Welfare Reform Almost Complete in Cameroon
Minister of Labor and Social Security, Robert Nkili has said that reform of social security is almost completed in Cameroon. Speaking to APA, he disclosed that the review of the reference texts that will be tabled before the National Assembly was underway. “This...
Fourteenth African Union Summit Starts in Addis Ababa on 25 January
The 14th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) will be held from 25 January to 2 February 2010 in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) at its headquarters on the theme ’’New Information and Communication Technologies in Africa : Challenges and Opportunities...
World Bank Donates Equipment And Funding to Nigerian Research Institute
The World Bank has donated a generating plant and a standard laboratory to the Nigeria National Research Institute for Chemical Technology (NARICT) in Zaria, Kaduna State, in Northern Nigeria to boost the institute’s bio-diesel and renewable fuel research...
Mines Minister Says an Aerial Survey has Revealed More Minerals Deposits in Nigeria
Nigeria’s Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, says the recently completed geophysical airborne survey of Nigeria has shown new mineral deposits. Alison-Madueke told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the minerals...
UK Freezes ‘education’ Aid to Kenya Over ‘alleged’ Fraud
Britain has frozen £10 million education aid for Kenya’s schools over alleged looting of £800,000 from earlier funding, official sources revealed Wednesday. An audit investigation of education spending established that several hundreds of thousands...
