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  • Kumasi creates website to promote investment

    GHANA, 2013/04/11 A new website has been developed for the city of Kumasi to attract foreign and local direct investment . A prime for a Ghanaian city, the website(www.investinkumasi.com) reflects the city government’s ongoing commitment to fostering a pro-business environment.

  • Former Acting City Mayor, Mary Broh

    LIBERIA, 2013/03/06 At a conference she convened on Tuesday, March 5, to discuss the Omega Village Project, President Ellen Johnson named former Acting City Mayor, Madam Mary T. Broh, to chief the Project Implementation Unit that will manage the project, with the Ministry of Public Works taking the lead.

  • Sanitation and hygiene development in cities

    SENEGAL, 2013/03/04 Team Shinsekai from Senegal are the winners of the Ericsson "Apps for African City Life" Awards for developing an app that aims to support environmental sanitation and hygiene development in cities. Second and third prizes went to two Kenyan teams, Easy Parking for their application aimed at helping motorists locate and pay for available parking areas thus reducing fuel consumption, and Tokelezea for their app which enables individuals to locate events and places around them and share the data with their friends.

  • Governor Ibrahim Shehu

    NIGERIA, 2013/03/03 Since Dr Ibrahim Shehu Shema became governor of Katsina National in northern Nigeria in 2007, his priorities and policies have focused on unearthing its potential – that is the potential of its land and, additional importantly, of its people. The Nigerian state has given much attention to its education sector, and according to its governor, now needs outside investors to help it take full advantage of its agriculture and mining industries.

  • The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Joaquim Sebastião Bento

    ANGOLA, 2013/01/13  The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Joaquim Sebastião Bento defended Saturday in the municipality of Icolo e Bengo that there has to be a study intended to minimize the problem of children outside the schoolling system.

  • The provincial governor of Luanda

    ANGOLA, 2013/01/13 The provincial governor of Luanda, Bento Joaquim Sebastião Francisco Bento, will on Saturday check social works under construction in the districts of Icolo e Bengo and Quissama.

  • Mr. Yemane Abbai. The head of Economic Development of Central Region

    ERITREA, 2013/01/13 Access to potable water has shown a marked increase and that 95% of the inhabitants of the Central Region presently have access to potable water, according to the chief of Economic Development of Central Region, Mr. Yemane Abbai.

  • President opens Festival in the Central region

    ERITREA, 2012/09/13  President Isaias Afwerki today opened the Festival in the Central region which would last until September 2. Speaking at the opening ceremony which was conducted in the presence of Ministers, Regional Administrators, government and PFDJ officials, inclunding invited guests and regional inhabitants, Mr. Kahsai Gebrehiwet, Administrator of the Central region, said that such an event is a basis for depicting national values vis-à-vis the cultural diversity.

  • Forestation activities in Central region making good progress

    ERITREA, 2012/01/13 At an annual assessment conference held on February 7 at the Asmara Municipality Hall, it was disclosed that community-based forestation activities in the Central region are making good evolution.
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