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  • Food Aid, Development Issues Figure Prominently in G8 Summit 3 Jul 2008 20:51 GMT
    ... critical meetings with the leaders of seven African nations on the opening day of their ... of Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Senegal. The African leaders are meeting ... continue promoting the importance of advanced farming technologies, including biotechnology, to help nations grow food ...

  • Health care under the microscope 3 Jul 2008 20:31 GMT
    ... 2008 1:46PM GMT The information age: Medical technology can now show breathing lungs, and more ... right. In the medical technology and equipment business, vital signs matter, just as much as ... million (Dh2.2 billion) in its Eastern and African markets to double to $1.2bn by 2010, ...

  • South'South industrial centre opens in Egypt 3 Jul 2008 18:57 GMT
    ... opened a US$10 million centre for transferring technology and promoting innovation-based industrial development among African ... technology and promoting innovation-based industrial development among African countries. The South–South Industrial Cooperation Centre (SICC) ... — Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Tunisia — have joined. The network ...

  • Alcatel-Lucent and Securicom Align to Deliver Managed Firewall Services 3 Jul 2008 18:32 GMT
    ... Deliver Managed Firewall Services Securicom, a South Africa-based IT security consulting and management company has ... services to Alcatel-Lucent’s reseller network in the East Africa region. With the help of its ... Companies can now get state-of-the-art Alcatel-Lucent firewall technology, coupled with access to security experts from ...

  • Wrestling for influence 3 Jul 2008 18:27 GMT
    ... countries: Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa. Yet this handshake between those who did ... seen. Globalisation’s increasingly unfettered flow of information, technology, capital, goods, services and people has helped ... of oil and minerals means that the Sudans and the Congos can take the bank’s ...

  • My Day At the UN To Discuss the Darfur Crisis and Global Warming 3 Jul 2008 16:32 GMT
    ... number killed at 500,000. Over the years, the world has witnessed terrible turmoil in Africa - Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Liberia, Chad, Uganda, Kenya and the list goes on. As the world watches, the genocide in Darfur goes ...

  • Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 Finals Showcase Tomorrow's Technology Leaders 3 Jul 2008 15:29 GMT
    ... Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 Finals Showcase Tomorrow's Technology Leaders Notizia pubblicata in rete il 03/07/2008 ... BT, Dassault Systemes, HP, Novotel, Paramount Pictures Corp and Quiksilver Inc. About Microsoft Founded in ... About Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Microsoft has operated in EMEA since 1982. ...

  • Kenya's CFC Stanbic to raise expansion capital 3 Jul 2008 14:37 GMT
    ... NAIROBI, July 3 (Reuters) - Kenya's CFC Stanbic Bank will raise 2-3 billion ... on Thursday. Fourth biggest by revenues in east Africa's largest economy, the month-old bank is the ...

  • KLM opts for IBS' Crew Management Solution 3 Jul 2008 14:36 GMT
    ... the global Travel, Transportation and Logistics (TTL) industry, has signed an agreement to provide AvientCrew, ... and tour operators world-wide. IBS services include technology consulting, testing, usability engineering, business intelligence & data ... Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. More information about IBS is available at ...

  • Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 19 June'3 July 3 Jul 2008 14:28 GMT
    ... Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 19 June–3 July Kenyan and Nigerian researchers will bioengineer improved cassava ... The bill gives the country's science and technology ministry the power to protect astronomical research ...

  • Danone Deploys BMC Software Solution to Unify European I.T. 3 Jul 2008 13:59 GMT
    ... BMC’s operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, added, “BMC Software delivers the solutions IT ... increase business value through better management of technology and IT processes. Our industry-leading BSM solutions help reduce cost, lower risk ...

  • Background Notes : Sudan (07/08) 3 Jul 2008 13:20 GMT
    ... (967,500 sq. mi.); the largest country in Africa and almost the size of continental U.S. ... Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, and surrounding East African nations. Fiscal year: January 1-December 31. PEOPLE ... August 1998, in the wake of the East Africa embassy bombings, the U.S. launched cruise missile ...

  • Giant Techs Join AST to Obtain Cost-effective Patent Licenses 3 Jul 2008 13:18 GMT
    ... Obtain Cost-effective Patent Licenses AMMAN - Several high-tech companies such as Motorola and Ericsson have confirmed ... Senior Manager of Strategic Public Relations and Industry Analyst Relations, in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region Rob Elston revealed “Ericsson is ...

  • New dawn beckons for tech investment in Africa 3 Jul 2008 12:33 GMT
    ... of merely flirting with business opportunity in Africa but failing to close the deal in ... regions such as Botswana, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo. ... completed and continue to roll out many hi-tech infrastructure installations. In most cases, these markets ...

  • Consumer sentiment dampened on economic woes: survey 3 Jul 2008 12:31 GMT
    ... region, including Vietnam, the Middle East and Africa, cited the economy as their major concern ... of Vietnamese respondents spend on new high technology, which makes Vietnamese the top spenders on tech in Asia Pacific, followed by China with ...

  • IPS, Gasco and ENPPI in Egyptian automation JV 3 Jul 2008 12:31 GMT
    ... in the modernisation of the Egyptian petroleum industry, helping Egypt increase refinery utilization, maximise productivity ... benefit substantially, not only in the field technology transfer, but in job creation and local manufacturing,' ... export engineering products throughout the Middle East, Africa and North Africa markets. This joint venture ...

  • Ex-Telkom boss buys UniNet 3 Jul 2008 11:53 GMT
    ... UniNet. Former Telkom CEO Papi Molotsane's Synglo Technologies has bought a 65% stake in value-added ... has made the town the first in Africa to be wirelessly connected. Molotsane was ejected from Telkom ... of the board after he signed the East African Submarine Cable System (Eassy) construction agreement ...

  • Africa: 'Agriculture Needs Green Growth' 3 Jul 2008 11:53 GMT
    ... Caution needs to be exercised in developing African food production to avoid long-term social and environmental ... we have barriers, so why should a Kenyan farmer not be protected from imported maize?" ... International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). The IAASTD is linked ...

  • 'Agriculture Needs Green Growth' 3 Jul 2008 11:35 GMT
    ... Caution needs to be exercised in developing African food production to avoid long-term social and environmental ... we have barriers, so why should a Kenyan farmer not be protected from imported maize?" ... International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD). The IAASTD is linked ...

  • ¡Ò1¡ÓThe transcript of the meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and representatives of Japanese media companies. 3 Jul 2008 11:19 GMT
    ... here -- I happen to believe battery technologies are coming soon. And the Japanese are, ... I'll talk about our HIV/AID initiative in Africa and how it's been effective, and the ... examples such as Zanzibar, a part of Tanzania, where the infection rate for young babies ...

  • SAFC expands Halal raw materials for flavours 3 Jul 2008 09:37 GMT
    ... for sales on a global basis. The company, which is a division of fine chemical ... amongst customers in the Middle East and Africa. Phan said that globalization is a key ... religious tradition, the Halal qualification provides food technology and flavor organizations with an additional degree ...

  • Government position on natural gas use 3 Jul 2008 09:34 GMT
    ... discovery of plentiful natural gas supplies in Tanzania, and how these can ease the burden ... its Purchase Sharing Agreement (PSA) partner, Pan African Energy, floated international tenders for introduction of ... few public corporations were conversant with the technology of executing the project. TPDC officials therefore ...

  • Learning from China Inspires African Decisionmakers 3 Jul 2008 09:32 GMT
    ... can pave the way for shared learning. Sino-African trade has exploded from $2 billion in 1999 ... said Keizire Boaz, an agricultural economist from Uganda who works on implementing the Comprehensive Africa ... development impact of roads, power, and communications technology left an impression with Boaz, who addressed ...

  • Aiding Poverty 3 Jul 2008 09:28 GMT
    ... sprawling in a hostile area of northeastern Kenya, is home to around 200,000 refugees. The ... if not decades, of economic progress,'' the Africa Progress Panel said last week, prompting its Chairman ... in London, where he specializes in trade, technology and intellectual property. Caroline Boin runs IPN's ...

  • Growth can spare people en masse from poverty 3 Jul 2008 07:54 GMT
    ... ``no single recipe`` for developing countries, including Tanzania to achieve fast, sustained growth, according to ... the global economy to gain access to technology, knowledge and financial markets, the Commission argues; ... and constraints`` for some specific regions. In Africa, the Commission found that industrialised countries should ...


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