KUWAIT, March 30 (NNN-KUNA) — Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has held official talks with Djibouti Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita at the Bayan Palace here. The two sides discussed bilateral relations and ways to bolster them at various levels. The talks Monday were attended by Kuwait’s Finance Minister Mustafa Al-Shimali, Commerce .
ABUJA, March 30 (NNN-NAN) — The Nigerian federal government and the World Bank are collaborating to reposition the country’s solid minerals sector through manpower capacity building. Already, 50 gemstone miners have been trained as part of the government’s resolve to raise professionalism in the sector and boost local production of minerals, says Dr Linus Adie, .
ADDIS ABABA, March 30 (NNN-ENA) — The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says the expansion of best practices strategy across Ethiopia is paying off. In a press statement received by ENA here Monday, the ministry said a total of 190 million quintals of agricultural output was estimated to be harvested from 12.8 million hectares .
ADDIS ABABA, March 30 (NNN-ENA) — Ethiopian Airlines has entered into a code share agreement with Scandinavian Airlines, one of the founding members of Star Alliance, Ethiopian said in a statement here Monday According to the Ethiopia Airlines public relations office, the agreement will provide its travellers with better connectivity and a broad range of .
ACCRA, March 30 (NNN-GNA) — Ghana risks losing its international investors to neighbours Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Mali and Burkina Faso among others if the current tariff structure in the country is not changed, according to research carried out by the Food and Beverages Association of Ghana (FABAG). “Currently there are six different taxes and levies .
By Kemantha Govender DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, March 30 (NNN-BUANEWS) — In an effort to combat HIV/AIDS, the Department of Health of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province and traditional medicine practitioners have met to discuss new and innovative ways to combat the disease, The forum also discussed ways of improving working relations between government and traditional practitioners, .
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Visiting Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica said that Brazil should take the lead in Latin America’s ascent in the world political arena. Energy-rich Brazil should speak for Latin America when the world is being reorganised into big blocs, Mujica said following meeting with Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da .
SANTIAGO, March 30 (NNN-XINHUA) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera announced a housing plan involving US$2.543 billion for families affected by the Feb. 27 earthquake. The plan will subsidise two phases of reconstruction with an average fund of US$7,700 per house. The first batch of the subsidy will cover 62 percent of the damaged houses while .
COCHABAMBA, March 30 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) -This new millennium must see the defense of the rights of Mother Earth, Bolivian President Evo Morales said. “If Copenhagen was a failure for capitalism, Cochabamba’s forthcoming summit cannot be a failure for the peoples, so I am requesting from you a significant contribution for all the peoples of the .
HAVANA, March 30 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – A growth in Cuban tourism after March, is predicted although in other nations of the region the industry had substantial declines, tourism sources said. A Tourist Ministry report said this month the sector will be noticed and will take advantage of its infinitive reserves. According to the report, despite .
