Essential The Africa the Media Doesn't Tell You About
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The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
A part of the problem is that the Root has perhaps a dozen dedicated posters. Expanding numbers would help increase traffic and materials.
This + The Root needs to move from simply reposting to heavy analysis. Most of these articles aren't that interesting on their own, since most of it is hypotheticals.
Tanzania signs $154 million contract with Chinese firm to expand main port
Sat Jun 10, 2017 | 12:35pm EDT
Tanzania's government signed a $154 million contract on Saturday with the state-run China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to expand the main port in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
Tanzania is seeking financing for infrastructure projects as part of its plans to transform the country into a regional transport and trade hub.
Under the contract funded by a World Bank loan, CHEC, a subsidiary of the state-run China Communications Construction Co Ltd, will build a roll-on, roll-off (ro-ro) terminal and deepen and strengthen seven berths at Dar es Salaam port.
Tanzania hopes expansion of the port will increase container throughput to 28 million tonnes a year by 2020 from around 20 million tonnes currently.
"Deepening and strengthening of the berths will allow big container ships to dock in Dar es Salaam. All these efforts are being done in order to increase competitiveness of the port," works, transport and communications minister Makame Mbarawa said at the signing of the contract.
East Africa's second-biggest economy wants to profit from its long coastline and upgrade its rickety railways and roads to serve the growing economies in the land-locked heart of Africa.
Big gas finds in Tanzania and oil discoveries in Kenya and Uganda have turned East Africa into an exploration hotspot for oil firms, but transport infrastructure in those countries has suffered from decades of under-investment.
Tanzania said in January it will receive a $305 million loan from the World Bank to expand its main port, where congestion and inefficiencies are hampering service delivery.
The port, whose main rival is the bigger but also congested port of Mombasa in Kenya, acts as a trade gateway for landlocked African states such as Zambia, Rwanda, Malawi, Burundi and Uganda, as well as the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The World Bank said in a 2014 report that inefficiencies at Dar es Salaam port were costing Tanzania and its neighbors up to $2.6 billion a year.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans to plow $60 billion into African development projects at a summit in Johannesburg in 2015, saying it would boost agriculture, build roads, ports and railways and cancel some debt.
(Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Editing by George Obulutsa and Andrew Bolton)
Tanzania signs $154 million contract with Chinese firm to expand main port
Sat Jun 10, 2017 | 12:35pm EDT
Tanzania's government signed a $154 million contract on Saturday with the state-run China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to expand the main port in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
Tanzania is seeking financing for infrastructure projects as part of its plans to transform the country into a regional transport and trade hub.
Under the contract funded by a World Bank loan, CHEC, a subsidiary of the state-run China Communications Construction Co Ltd, will build a roll-on, roll-off (ro-ro) terminal and deepen and strengthen seven berths at Dar es Salaam port.
Tanzania hopes expansion of the port will increase container throughput to 28 million tonnes a year by 2020 from around 20 million tonnes currently.
"Deepening and strengthening of the berths will allow big container ships to dock in Dar es Salaam. All these efforts are being done in order to increase competitiveness of the port," works, transport and communications minister Makame Mbarawa said at the signing of the contract.
East Africa's second-biggest economy wants to profit from its long coastline and upgrade its rickety railways and roads to serve the growing economies in the land-locked heart of Africa.
Big gas finds in Tanzania and oil discoveries in Kenya and Uganda have turned East Africa into an exploration hotspot for oil firms, but transport infrastructure in those countries has suffered from decades of under-investment.
Tanzania said in January it will receive a $305 million loan from the World Bank to expand its main port, where congestion and inefficiencies are hampering service delivery.
The port, whose main rival is the bigger but also congested port of Mombasa in Kenya, acts as a trade gateway for landlocked African states such as Zambia, Rwanda, Malawi, Burundi and Uganda, as well as the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The World Bank said in a 2014 report that inefficiencies at Dar es Salaam port were costing Tanzania and its neighbors up to $2.6 billion a year.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced plans to plow $60 billion into African development projects at a summit in Johannesburg in 2015, saying it would boost agriculture, build roads, ports and railways and cancel some debt.
(Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Editing by George Obulutsa and Andrew Bolton)
Tanzania signs $154 million contract with Chinese firm to expand main port
THIS! Some of these posters just post these article threads with NONE of their opinions in it or these long ass freaking videos that no one will watch out of some type of charity for the Root.
Not to be my bragging uppity negro self but threads like this need to be made.
Lets Talk African History: The Moors. Who Were They?
^^^Cited quotes, HOWEVER your own personal thoughts paraphrasing the quotes. Especially the bolded parts you like.
Threads like that and threads like your black essentials for economic liberation one. I'm thinking about making a new rule that if you post an article then you have to post the key part that you liked and the subject you wanna talk about the article. This inspired from another forum.
I gotta a companion piece and a sort of bridge between Ancient Egypt and The Moors coming about Africa and the Crusades
staticshock
Veteran
Folks have been saying this forever..I dont think it's the case. I think ISIS and other radical groups will cause isolated fights here and there, but nothing major. For the most part, every country seems to want peace and is doing everything to maintain that.
The only regional conflict I can see turning into a world wide event is the China & Japan issue over the islands and oil in the East China Sea, and all the Asian countries disputing over boundaries in the South China Sea
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
[DMX voice]Here we go again[/DMX voice]
WATCH: Heavily armed Zim riot cops evict white farmer in 'fresh land grabs'
WATCH: Heavily armed Zim riot cops evict white farmer in 'fresh land grabs'
WATCH: Heavily armed Zim riot cops evict white farmer in 'fresh land grabs'
WATCH: Heavily armed Zim riot cops evict white farmer in 'fresh land grabs'
Red Shield
Global Domination
Meh those whites in Zimbabwe.. hell all of southern Africa are gonna lose all of their stuff eventually
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Meh those whites in Zimbabwe.. hell all of southern Africa are gonna lose all of their stuff eventually
Probably. They're talking of taking their land in Namibia. The ANC also wants to push forward land reclamation policies to stave off greater EFF political success, too.
Red Shield
Global Domination
Ain't no probably about it.
Only question is if it's going to be peaceful or not. Which it probably won't be
Meh those whites in Zimbabwe.. hell all of southern Africa are gonna lose all of their stuff eventually
Southern Africa(MAYBE outside of Botswana) is done. And it is such a pretty stable region(more so than North Africa) in Africa...
Red Shield
Global Domination
The Odum of Ala Igbo
Hail Biafra!
Feature: Chinese companies powering Ethiopia's ambition to become Africa's manufacturing hub - Xinhua | English.news.cn
Feature: Chinese companies powering Ethiopia's ambition to become Africa's manufacturing hub
Source: Xinhua | 2017-06-20 19:07:14 | Editor: huaxia
Workers go about their work at a construction site in Hawassa, Ethiopia, Feb. 3, 2016. The Hawassa Industrial Park is being built by China Civil Engineering Corporation (CCECC) with a focus on garment manufacture and agro-industry.The park is located 280 km south of the Ethiopian Capital Addis Ababa at the out skirts of the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNP) capital Hawassa. (Xinhua /Michael Tewelde)
ADDIS ABABA, June 20 (Xinhua) -- As part of its vision to become the manufacturing hub of Africa, Ethiopia is set to inaugurate the first phase of its flagship Chinese-built Hawassa Industrial Park.
The industrial park is said to be the first Sustainable Textile and Apparel Industrial park in the African continent with state-of-the-art infrastructural capacity.
It is one of the many projects in Ethiopia commissioned by Chinese companies that are engaged in various activities ranging from building industrial parks, setting up factories, constructing railway and other infrastructures.
Built by China Civil Engineering Corporation (CCECC), the Hawassa industrial park located in Hawassa city some 275 km south of the capital Addis Ababa was initially completed in a record time of nine months back in July 2016.
Arkebe Oqubay, Special Advisor to the Ethiopian Prime Minster, speaking in connection with the inaugural ceremony to be held on Tuesday, said that the park would be considered as a model for other industrial parks under construction in the east African country.
He said that the development of sustainable, world class specialized, export-driven and competitive industrial parks is the major target of Ethiopia so as to realize its vision towards economic development and become the manufacturing hub of the African continent.
In addition to the Hawassa industrial park, the east African country has further embarked on the development of similar other industrial zones in Kombolcha, Mekele, Kilinto, Bole Lemmi II, Dire Dawa and Adama among others, of which Mekele and Kombolcha industrial parks to be inaugurated soon.
The Ethiopian government has planned to construct 10 industrial parks across the country aiming at enhancing job opportunities, earning revenue and promoting technology transfer, while majority of the parks are under construction or constructed by Chinese companies.
CCECC, in addition to the Hawassa Industrial Park, is already constructing another industrial park in Adama city, the capital of Oromia regional state, located 99 km southeast of Addis Ababa.
The company has also recently signed a contract agreement to build industrial park in the resort city of Bahir Dar, some 552 km north of Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, at a cost of 60 million dollars.
A construction worker is seen at the Arerti Industrial Park, Ethiopia, March 23, 2017. The industrial park is being built by the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC). (Xinhua/Michael Tewelde)
Li Wuliang, general manager of CCECC Ethiopia, during the signing ceremony this month, affirmed that the company will strive to finish the 75-hectare Bahir Dar industrial park, which is expected to host eight factory sheds and basic infrastructure utilities, within the agreed nine-month period.
Designed and being built by another Chinese company, China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), Arerti Industrial Park located some 140 km east of the capital city Addis Ababa, is another hope of Ethiopia in its quest to become Africa's manufacturing sector excellence.
Woody Lau, Business Manager at CCCC, has recently told Xinhua that Arerti Industrial Park is expected to employ about 400 persons when the first phase incorporating a ceramic plant is finished at a cost of tens of millions of U.S. dollars.
CCCC is not new to building projects that have had strategic changes to Ethiopia, with its trademark Addis Ababa-Adama expressway, Ethiopia's first toll road, inaugurated in April 2014.
Africa's second most populous nation, with a mostly young population of about 100 million, is presently betting on investments in industrial parks to meet the demands of job market and keep the nation stable and prosperous, while the contribution from Chinese companies is massive and highly visible across the country.