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22 Nov 09

allAfrica.com: Africa: Diplomat Expresses Regrets Over UN Food Summit (Page 1 of 1)

  • called for the rules governing international trade to be separated from "the logic of profit viewed as an end in itself."
02 Nov 09

Pambazuka News : Issue 455

  • greater environmental sensitivity in China has had contradictory effects. Domestic environmental activists, working with sympathetic scientists and government officials, have had some impact. Chinese banks have explicitly adopted environmental guidelines. China imposed strict laws banning logging in virgin forests a decade ago, winning praise from environmental groups. But the ban on domestic logging spurred imports linked to excessive logging in Southeast Asia as well as Africa. China thus stands accused of supporting policies abroad that it rejects at home.
  • How does the re-branding of Africa as an entrepreneurial space fit with the persistently negative image of the continent’s people?
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26 Oct 09

Pambazuka - African view: China's new long march

Sixty years of communism in the People's Republic has lulled some people into forgetting just what committed businessmen the Chinese have been for 3,000 years.

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  • Sixty years of communism in the People's Republic has lulled some people into forgetting just what committed businessmen the Chinese have been for 3,000 years.
  • The Chinese are here and everywhere else to make money and let no-one forget that - ever.
18 Oct 09

allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Obama - Nobel War Prize (Page 1 of 1)

  • Though it will probably not be Obama, the time is not far when an American president will come who can cut down Zionism to size, liberate the American spirit, so that American statesmen will work only for the interest of their republic and no one else. When that time comes we will see the American Republic out there fighting wars of liberation, not wars of attrition or occupation.
07 Oct 09

Exxon Said to Pay $4 Billion for Stake in African Field - NYTimes.com

"While major companies like Exxon have focused on developing large oil and gas projects, much of the riskier and more prospective exploration has been undertaken by smaller, independent producers like Anadarko Petroleum, Tullow Oil and Kosmos. "

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27 Sep 09

SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Summit for South-South Cooperation - IPS ipsnews.net

Bolívar said the final declaration will issue a strong call for reforms aimed at democratising the United Nations, and will reiterate the developing South's demands that the nations of the industrialised North assume greater commitments with respect to climate change, fair international trade, the fight against poverty and measures to overcome the global financial crisis that broke out last year in the United States.

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  • Part I of regional integration changes. Part II was official replacement of G7(8) with G20. - pickinjava on 2009-09-27
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