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East Africa’s Tallest Building? China Plans To Build It

The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia has signed an agreement with the China State Construction Engineering Corporation to build a 198-meter (649.6 feet) building for the bank’s headquarters in Ethiopia, expected.

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Ethiopians In the Diaspora Lead Investments Back Home

Escaping an authoritarian military regime in the 80’s thousands of Ethiopian found themselves in the US, but several decades later they are slowly returning to invest in the a country.

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Is Food Security Prompting A New Scramble For Africa?

Rising food security concerns are driving developed countries to negotiate alarmingly large land purchases across the global south. While Western Europe led the colonization of Africa in the 19th century,.

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Missing Oil Billions – Nigeria President Orders Release of Report

By Jaiyeola Andrews Abuja — Following the threat by President-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) to investigate further into the $20bn allegedly missing from the account of the Nigeria National.

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U.S. Embassy Statement on Nigerian Gubernatorial and State Assembly Elections

The United States Embassy in Nigeria congratulates the people of Nigeria and the Independent National Electoral Commission for an electoral process on April 11, 2015 that generally went well across.

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Obama Advisory Council On Business In Africa Wants U.S – Africa Infrastructure Center

 President Obama’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa meets for first time President Obama’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa met for the first time in Washington, D.C..

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Nigeria abductions: Chibok girls remembered one year on

Ceremonies are to be staged around the world to mark one year since more than 200 girls were abducted by Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram. A procession will be.

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Connected East Africa: Kenya Leads In Public Service Automation

Connected East Africa is perhaps testament to the level of frenetic tech activity in Nairobi, Kenya, that once each year the entirety of the city’s tech stakeholders decamps to the.

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Video: President Zuma And Robert Mugabe Talk Future Cooperation

President Jacob Zuma, and his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe, addressed a business forum in Pretoria hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry as part of the two-day state visit.

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President Obama to Kenya for Entrepreneurship Summit

US President Barack Obama is set to visit Nairobi in July for the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. He is expected to hold bilateral meetings with President Uhuru Kenyatta and participate.

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