Transcript issued by Department of Foreign Affairs July 1 2008 From politicsweb.co.za Question: Mr President, we now know that the African Union has called on President Mugabe and the Opposition to talk and move towards this...

The Vice-President of ECOWAS Commission, Mr. Jean de Dieu Somda, said yesterday that the regional body is strategising and working towards attracting a fair share of Chinese aid and investment funds to Africa Somda disclosed this in Abuja at the...

Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama on Tuesday urged African governments to produce a workforce that is disciplined, honest, responsible, innovative and receptive to new ideas “As Ghana is going through its strategic priority of Human Resource...

Cameroon is finally opening its doors to be screened by its African Union peers under the continent's initiative to bring poverty top of its development agenda.African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) delegation is currently in Cameroon to reach an...

The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) has stated that steady progress towards Nigeria is being made at the summit of African Heads of State and government, in Egypt. This was made known by the special adviser on NEPAD, Amb. Tunji...

Yokohama - Following the conclusion of the 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), President Thabo Mbeki on Friday said the outcomes would greatly benefit the African continent "given that you are dealing here with the...

Ghana and Iran have signed a number of Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding at the end of their Third Session of the Permanent Joint Commission of Cooperation in Tehran, Iran The Session was convened to review the state of implementation of the...

The hunger riots arising from soaring food prices are a terrible human drama. The world price of wheat has nearly tripled in three years, and doubled in the last year; the price of rice has increased by more than 50 per cent in three months.The...

SOARING food prices will be under the spotlight at an African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) workshop starting in Pretoria today. Organisers said on Friday that the high level pan-African regional workshop would identify...

African ministers of science and technology and the European Union have jump-started the EU-Africa strategic partnership on science and IT and agreed to coordinate ICT development plans in Africa The E.U. has agreed to fund African science and...

Rwanda is enthusiastic about NEPAD and its development objectives-Charles Gasana, Executive Director NEPAD Rwanda It is four years since the NEPAD Rwanda office was established. Executive Director Charles Gasana discusses Rwanda's...

The Department of Public Enterprises' Broadband Infraco West Coast cable has trumped the Department of Communications' Uhurunet as government's lead undersea initiative, aimed at reducing telecommunications prices. A...

The NEPAD Business Group in Côte d'Ivoire, set up a few months before the March 2007 peace agreement, has been in “constant dialogue” with the government to “set up building blocks for a post-crisis plan,” says its president, Guy M'Bengue The NEPAD...

Most delegates have boycotted the first Europe-Africa Business Summit held in Hamburg, Germany. The summit, hosted by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) Council, is aimed at bringing public and private sector investors together to...

All is now set for Ethiopia and Nigeria to strengthen their trade relationship which has not been good overtime, Daily Trust reported from Abuja quoting the Ethiopian Ambassador to Nigeria, Suleiman Dedefo as having said on Friday Addressing...

The Africa Business Roundtable, NEPAD and ECOWAS have organised a two-day group on trade issues with the support of Biz-Clim and of the European Union in order to find concrete, immediate ways to eliminate those very obstacles to trade that raise...

Information Technology Editor EFFORTS by private companies to set up computer labs in rural schools throughout Africa will fail unless governments play their part by investing to make the projects sustainable. ...

The launch of the Centre for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education in Africa (CEMASTEA) in Nairobi, Kenya in November 2005 as a NEPAD Flagship Project was received with great excitement and enthusiasm by more than 100 teachers, educators and...