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[Premeditated]

Cote d’Ivoire signs $1.5 Billion deal for a metro in Abidjan


Cote d’Ivoire has struck a $1.5 billion deal with a unit of Bouygues SA for an urban railway to be built in the country’s largest city, Abidjan.

Named Metro d’Abidjan, the railway is expected to ease traffic congestion in the city whoe population goes beyond 4 million people.

The project is funded by France as part of a package of mainly concessional loans.

While the construction works begun in 2017, no formal accord had been signed until now.

Cote d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara said in 2018 that a high-level committee with finance ministers from both countries would be formed to remove obstacles to the disbursement of funds.

The train will be expected to carry 530,000 passengers daily, according to a statement from the office of the Cote d’Ivoire Prime Minister.

According to World Bank statistics, travelling costs in Abidjan are the third-biggest expense for commuters.

hate to say it, but alot of Francophone West African cities are more advance than we think. There's a reason why Dakar and now Abidjan have rail lines. The cities are much more organize. Even though Dakar has alot of dusty streets, it's well planned city with underrated architect. Abidjan is also well planned with street address everywhere. It's a city of waterways with decent infrastructure. These are great social economic projects.
Ethiopia has a light rail, but they're not technically trams. they can't be embedded onto road

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Another powerful Israeli commits crimes in Africa — and again his government does nothing

July 18, 2019

FILE PHOTO: Brigadier-General Yisrael Ziv, commander of Israeli forces in Gaza, speaks at a news conference in Gaza September 3, 2002. REUTERS/Tsafrir Abayov/File Photo



Link:
Another powerful Israeli commits crimes in Africa — and again his government does nothing – Mondoweiss

And they gave Israel observer status in the AU?

 

[Bawon Samedi]

hate to say it, but alot of Francophone West African cities are more advance than we think. There's a reason why Dakar and now Abidjan have rail lines. The cities are much more organize. Even though Dakar has alot of dusty streets, it's well planned city with underrated architect. Abidjan is also well planned with street address everywhere. It's a city of waterways with decent infrastructure. These are great social economic projects.
Ethiopia has a light rail, but they're not technically trams. they can't be embedded onto road

Why do you "hate to say it"?

And they gave Israel observer status in the AU?

This was been known breh.

 

[Premeditated]

Why do you "hate to say it"?

This was been known breh.

aren't the frenchies the boogeyman on here?

 

[Bawon Samedi]

aren't the frenchies the boogeyman on here?

What do Blacks from French speaking African countries gotta do with the Frenchies besides the Frenchies influencing them?

Them developing fast should be seen as a good then since some ppl stereotype French speaking Africans as LESS industrious than their English speaking counterparts. I wanna see this for the DRC.

 

[Premeditated]

What do Blacks from French speaking African countries gotta do with the Frenchies besides the Frenchies influencing them?

Them developing fast should be seen as a good then since some ppl stereotype French speaking Africans as LESS industrious than their English speaking counterparts. I wanna see this for the DRC.

I agree
Even Mali is well organized than people think. Bamako is well planned. But too many foreign aided violent groups.
I don't consider DRC part of french west african influence though. weren't they mostly under Belgium? Man, DRC was just fukked from the get go after their first president got assassinated. Atleast french west african countries were striving for a little bet after their independence.
it's been said tha alot of their gdp figures we see haven't been rebased for a decade because of the french currency. but their actual gdp are alot higher.

 

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hate to say it, but alot of Francophone West African cities are more advance than we think. There's a reason why Dakar and now Abidjan have rail lines. The cities are much more organize. Even though Dakar has alot of dusty streets, it's well planned city with underrated architect. Abidjan is also well planned with street address everywhere. It's a city of waterways with decent infrastructure. These are great social economic projects.
Ethiopia has a light rail, but they're not technically trams. they can't be embedded onto road

Way too much. Shouldnt have cost them that much

 

[phcitywarrior]

Nigerian painting fetches £1.1 million after Google search[/B]

By AFP
15 October 2019 | 8:21 pm

This undated handout picture released by Sotheby’s auction house in London on October 15, 2019, shows a painting entitle “Christine” by Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu, that sold for £1.1 million (1.3 million euros, $1.4 million), after being originally valued at £100,000-150,000. – A painting by the Nigerian artist responsible for the “African Mona Lisa” sold at auction in London on October 15, 2019, for £1.1 million after the family who owned it googled the signature and realised its importance. The painting fetched over seven times the pre-auction estimate, finally going under the hammer for £1.1 million (1.3 million euros, $1.4 million). “Christine”, by 20th century master of African modernism Ben Enwonwu, had been in the sitter’s family home ever since it was painted in Lagos in 1971. (Photo by Handout / SOTHEBY’S / AFP)

A painting by the Nigerian artist responsible for the “African Mona Lisa” sold at auction in London on Tuesday for £1.1 million after the family who owned it googled the signature and realised its importance.

“Christine”, by 20th century master of African modernism Ben Enwonwu, had been in the sitter’s family home ever since it was painted in Lagos in 1971.

“The family were unaware of the significance of the painting or the importance of the artist, until a chance “googling” of the signature led them to Sotheby’s free Online Estimate Platform,” said the London auction house.

The painting fetched over seven times the pre-auction estimate, finally going under the hammer for £1.1 million (1.3 million euros, $1.4 million).

The work precedes the artist’s 1974 painting of Ife royal princess Adetutu “Tutu” Ademiluyi, which recently turned up in a London flat after not being seen in decades.

The portrait is a national icon in Nigeria, with Booker Prize-winning novelist Ben Okri telling AFP that it was thought of as “the African Mona Lisa”.

Enwonwu, who died in 1994, is considered the father of Nigerian modernism.

He made three paintings of “Tutu”, the locations of all of which had been a mystery until the recent discovery.

The works became symbols of peace following the clash of ethnic groups in the Nigerian–Biafran conflict of the late 1960s.

This should be in a national museum. Masterpieces going for pennies on the dollar.

 

[Premeditated]

I could have sworn Kenya is a middle income country

the reast of the world projection growth seem to be going down. Nigeria, South Africa and Angola is holding africa back in projection while everyone else is growing or slightly growing.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

I could have sworn Kenya is a middle income country

the reast of the world projection growth seem to be going down. Nigeria, South Africa and Angola is holding africa back in projection while everyone else is growing or slightly growing.

What do you mean?

 

[Apollo Creed]

I could have sworn Kenya is a middle income country

the reast of the world projection growth seem to be going down. Nigeria, South Africa and Angola is holding africa back in projection while everyone else is growing or slightly growing.

Kenya probably just has a ton of people where even with them having millions in the middle class there are millions that are poor as hell, i.e. India.

 

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17 October 2019

Russia-Africa Summit: The Roadmap to Africa, Shift in Geopolitical Relations
By Kester Kenn Klomegah


Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent warm greetings to African leaders, business people and participants early October, signaling that everything is set for the first Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, southern coastal city of Russia.

The message reads, in part:

“Today, the countries of Africa are well on their way towards social, economic, scientific and technological development, and are playing a significant role in international affairs. They are strengthening mutually beneficial integration processes within the African Union and other regional and sub regional organizations across the continent.”

In recent years, the traditionally friendly ties of partnership between Russia and Africa have gained new momentum, both at a bilateral level and in various multilateral formats. In addition to preserving past experience of successful cooperation, have also managed to make significant new steps forward.

Trade and investment are growing dynamically, and new joint projects are under way in extractive industries, agriculture, healthcare, and education. Russian companies are ready to offer their scientific and technological developments to their African partners, and share their experience of upgrading energy, transport and communications infrastructures, according to President Putin.

It is, broadly, expected that the Summit will help identify new areas and forms of cooperation, put forward promote collaboration between Russia and Africa to a qualitatively new level and further contribute enormously to the development of bilateral relations between Russia and Africa.

According to the Organizing Committee, some 50 African heads of state have already confirmed their participation. It will feature more than 200 CEOs, ministers of key industries, and representatives of the expert community from Russia and Africa. The events will be attended by more than 3,000 representatives of African businesses.

The main event are the plenary session “Russia-Africa: Uncovering the Potential for Cooperation” during which the Presidents of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, are expected to speak. A final declaration of the Summit titled “For Peace, Security, and Development” has been prepared and it includes items on the global and regional agendas that are important for Russia as well as comprehensive proposals on diverse ways to develop the full scope of future Russian-African relations.

In addition, at least 23 intergovernmental and interagency agreements and other agreements between African and Russian companies will be signed on the sidelines.

Under the theme “Russia and Africa: Uncovering the Potential for Cooperation” here are the key areas the Summit will discuss:

The Role of Media in Russian-African Relations

The African continent is becoming ever more important in today’s international order. Russian-African relations are adding an additional dimension to developments, especially with the boost provided by rapidly expanding links across a vast range of areas.

The media can, and indeed must be a decisive factor in building effective ties. Africa is frequently portrayed in the media as suffering from numerous intergovernmental, religious, and ethnic conflicts; political and economic instability; and an array of demographic and social problems. Knowledge of today’s Russia and the steps being taken by its political leaders to tackle global challenges is also given little space in the continent’s media landscape.

Link:

Russia-Africa Summit: The Roadmap to Africa, Shift in Geopolitical Relations - Global Research


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