Essential The Africa the Media Doesn't Tell You About

[Poitier]

Hmm.... do you speak it ?

no

 

[Cynic]

no

Oh...... I've been there twice ...the first time was a jarring experience

The second time was more pleasant..... I took pleasure in disrepecting Zim cacs though :wiz:

 

[Poitier]

General Electric says to build 1,200 MW power plant in Ghana
PEDUASE, Ghana Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:14am EST

Jan 27 (Reuters) - General Electric Co (GE) will build a 1,200-megawatt thermal power plant in Ghana to come onstream in the next five years in a bid to address the West African country's power deficit, chief executive Jeff Immelt said on Tuesday.

The U.S. company will also provide emergency power systems in Ghana this year to help offset a current crisis, he said, after a meeting with President John Mahama at a presidential palace outside the capital. (Reporting by Kwasi Kpodo; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)

 

[Premeditated]

AU, China agree big infrastructure deal
Addis Ababa - China and the African Union agreed on Tuesday an ambitious plan to develop road, rail and air transport routes to link capitals across the continent.

African Union chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma praised the proposal at "the most substantive project the AU has ever signed with a partner", although the ambitious project that includes highways and high speed railways is at present just a commitment to develop the infrastructure, and contains few details.

The memorandum of understanding was signed at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, ahead of a summit meeting of the leaders of the 54-nation pan-African bloc on Friday.

At present, the quickest route to travel across from one side of Africa to the other can involve flight connections routed via Europe, although major airport hubs are rapidly growing, including Addis Ababa and Nairobi in the east, Johannesburg in the south and Abuja in west Africa.

"This is the document of the century... the aviation agreement marks a new area for co-operation between the AU and China," said Zhang Ming, Chinese vice minister for foreign affairs, after the signing ceremony.

"Africa is a vast continent where it must be possible to travel without transiting via Paris or London."

China, the continent's largest trading partner, is already involved in a raft of transport infrastructure projects.
- AFP

http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/African-Union-China-agree-big-infrastructure-deal-20150127

Hopefully that means lots of employment

 

[Premeditated]

AU, China to cooperate on infrastructure, industrialization

2015-01-28 10:08 Xinhua Web Editor: Gu Liping
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The African Union (AU) and China have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on major infrastructure networks and industrialization process in Africa.

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the AU Commission, and Zhang Ming, Special Envoy and Vice Foreign Minister of China, have signed the MoU on continental transport, high speed railway, aviation, road highways as well as on industrialization.

The signing ceremony took place on Tuesday at the AU Headquarters in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the 24th AU summit which kicked off on Friday with the 29th session of the AU permanent representatives committee (PRC).

The MoU is within the framework of AU's Agenda 2063 with a view to accelerating continental integration of Africa, according to the AU.

The two sides inked the deal based on and following the discussion between Dlamini-Zuma and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during the Premier's visit to the AU Headquarters last year.

"We discussed that we need to cooperate with People's Republic of China in a number of areas at the continental level, mainly around the infrastructure sector," recalled the chairperson of the AU Commission.

Saying that Africans have a dream of having prosperous, united, and peaceful Africa driven by its citizens, the chairperson hailed the MoU as an important document.

She further revealed that teams and sub-committees have already been set up to deal with detailed issues of the cooperation between the two sides on those areas.

Each sector has a team with a sub-committee to work on details of projects such as starting point, costs, and means of funding among others, according to the chairperson.

Speaking on China-Africa relationship, she said that China and Africa have been enjoying long-standing and historic relations with ever growing cooperation.

"This would be the first continental project that Africa and China will be undertaking in all these areas," she said. "The relationship, particularly the cooperation is taking a different height, a different level, and a different dimension."

This is grand and very ambitious project but it is also a feasible project, said Zhang Ming.

The document signed is the result of the discussion between the Chinese premier and Dlamini-Zuma last year, recalled Zhang Ming, adding it is a combination of development strategies and dreams of China and Africa.

It is cooperation on infrastructure and industrialization sectors to be carried out under the cooperation framework between China and AU, whereby the AU plays a coordinating role in the implementation, according to the special envoy.

He said China has rich experience and mature technologies in the areas of high speed railways, highways, aviation and in industrialization projects.

 

[Premeditated]

Senegal's Digital city


already under construction

 

[Premeditated]

some Angolan manufacturing

@Poitier this is just 2 percent of the manufacturing and industrial park I was talking about last week. I'll try to get some more company buildings

100% Angolan made. It may not be Samsung, but it's a start.

 

[Poitier]

Blueprint for Mogadishu, Somalia as the Capital:

 

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[Lucky_Lefty]

that's very telling......one thing I've noticed here in SA is that there is a reluctance by the old guard to embrace a lot of things that would take the country forward technologically. Specificaly on that energy stat, I'd love to know how that applies to here. They went from projecting rolling blackouts from Jan-Apr now they are guess-timating that it could last at min. 10 years. Companies like BMW have already expressed their reluctance to have to shut down their factories for that and it's a slight chance they may just uproot ops here and move. That would be devastating considering all 3 series are built here and the number of jobs loss could be the start of something very bad...all it takes is one and the rest will follow suit

 

[Poitier]

 

[Poitier]

Billed widely as Ethiopia’s first post-apocalyptic sci-fi film, Crumbs, (directed by Spanish-born, Addis Ababa-based director Miguel Llansó) is the story of Birdy and Candy, survivors of a vaguely referenced "Big War" that leaves the world's population in tatters. From the looks of it, Birdy and Candy lead a sad, strange, and terrifying life: they live in a decrepit bowling alley, a rusted spaceship hangs immobile in the sky above, and Birdy has to face off with what appears to be a Power Ranger on horseback. Oh yeah, and Santa Claus makes an appearance. The Hollywood Reporter, which reviewedCrumbs at the Rotterdam Film Festival, gave it a tentative thumbs up, calling it "outlandish and imaginative." IndiePix just picked up the film for distribution in the US and frankly, I couldn't be more excited

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Anyone check out the WWE match at the S. African state of the nation address. That shyt was an embarrassment

 

[lenfantdelacapitale]

Anyone check out the WWE match at the S. African state of the nation address. That shyt was an embarrassment

I understand the frustration of Malema and other opposition toward Zuma. Zuma is a fukking thief and still hasn't returned the money he spent on his estate. People are frustrated with the establishment in Africa in general just stealing from their own people

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I understand the frustration of Malema and other opposition toward Zuma. Zuma is a fukking thief and still hasn't returned the money he spent on his estate. People are frustrated with the establishment in Africa in general just stealing from their own people

Understand that to but there are better ways at getting your point across. Especially when you talk about the sancitity of the constitutional hall then have something like that occur. Then the bs with the jamming of signals. Makes the entire govt look elementary