Africa in the news
Sunday, November 8th, 2009The premier of China Wen Jiabao pledged $10 billion in new low interest loans to African nations over three years, at the start of a two-day China-Africa summit in Egypt. He said China would also forgive government debts of the poorest African nations that have relations with Beijing and would build 100 new clean energy projects for the continent. It would also gradually institute a zero-tariff policy on 95 percent of goods from some of the poorest countries. All this would take place over three years.
Read this at Washingtonpost.com
Guinea
West African neighbors of Guinea; Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone are worried that the instability in that country could spill over to their countries. There are fears that the problems in Guinea could descend into civil war. The leaders of these countries who have all just ended bloody civil conflicts themselves often with foreign help recall how civil strife in one country has infected neighbours.
