ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 29, 2014/ — The ONE Campaign ( http://www.one.org) today released a new report and launched Do Agric, It Pays, a campaign calling for African governments to commit to spending at least 10% of national budgets on effective agriculture investments, through transparent and accountable budgets. At the heart of the Do Agric campaign is an effort…
DAR ES SALAAM, 28 JANUARY, 2014 Honourable Eng. Christopher Chiza, (MP), Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Mr. Salum Shamte, Chairman of the Agricultural Council of Tanzania, Distinguished Delegates; Resource Persons, Invited Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen; It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you all to Tanzania and to Dar es Salaam in particular. I hope you have…
BERLIN, Germany. 21 January, 2013 – Today, AGCO, a global leader in farm machinery manufacture, joins the Partners Group of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) ahead of the AGRF in September 2014. AGCO joins with the Alliance for the Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU), African Union (AU), African Development Bank (AfDB),…
*Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 23 January 2014 – *The BRICS countries should not be counted out as dynamic forces in the global economy. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS) have all been hit to varying degrees by fallout from the global financial crisis, but leaders responsible for economic management in these countries predict they will rebound over the…
*The time has come for SADC to seek innovative ways to mobilise and generate resources and thereby lessen dependency in its endeavours to fast track economic regional integration and development, while consolidating the political gains achieved so far over the years”. *These sentiments were expressed by the Minister of External Relations of the Republic of Angola Honourable Dr. George…
*STATEMENT BY HON. DR. MOHAMMED GHARIB BILAL, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA, DURING THE EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR AWARD CEREMONY ON 5TH DECEMBER 2013 AT THE HYATT REGENCY DAR ES SALAAM* *Mr. Almas Maige, Chairperson of Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE),* *Honourable Gaudentia M. Kabaka, (MP), Minister for Labour and Employment,* *Mr. Guy Ryder, the ILO Director…
Jan 29 – 31 – TANESCO, EWURA, Millennium Challenge Corporation, OPIC and IFC to address the future of Tanzania’s power sector EnergyNet’s Powering Africa: Tanzania executive meeting, will be held from 29th-31st January in Dar Es Salaam DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, January 9, 2014/ — “With such a focused group of industry shapers participating at the Powering Africa: Tanzania…
A ‘Marshall Plan’ for Africa’s employment challenge_____ By Tony O. Elumelu : Unemployment, independent of any other factor, threatens to derail the economic promise that Africa deserves. It’s a time bomb with no geographical boundaries: Economists expect Africa to create 54 million new jobs by 2020, but 122 million Africans will enter the labor force during that time frame….