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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and South African President Jacob Zuma at BRICS summit in Ceara events centre
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BRICS Banks’s First President to be from IndiaNew Development Bank: First Major Triumph of the BRICS Countries
Leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and South
African President Jacob Zuma recently met at the 6th BRICS Summit in Brazil from July 14-16 2014. To inaugurate the second cycle of BRICS Summits, the theme chosen for their discussions was "Inclusive Growth: Sustainable Solutions”, in keeping with the inclusive macroeconomic and social policies carried out by our governments and the imperative to address challenges to humankind posed by the need to simultaneously achieve growth, inclusiveness, protection and preservation.
“BRICS, as well as other EMDCs, continue to face significant financing constraints to address infrastructure gaps and sustainable development needs. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce the signing of the Agreement establishing the New Development Bank (NDB), with the purpose of mobilizing resources for infrastructure and sustainable
development projects in BRICS and other emerging and developing economies. We appreciate the work undertaken by our Finance Ministers. Based on sound banking principles, the NDB will strengthen the cooperation among our countries and will supplement the efforts of multilateral and regional financial institutions for global development, thus contributing to our collective commitments for achieving the goal of strong, sustainable and balanced growth”, the Declaration said.
It further said the Bank shall have an initial authorized capital of US$ 100 billion. The initial subscribed capital shall be of US$ 50 billion, equally shared among founding members. The first chair of the Board of Governors shall be from Russia. The first chair of the Board of Directors shall be from Brazil. The first President of the Bank shall be from India. The headquarters of the Bank shall be located in Shanghai. The New Development Bank Africa Regional Center shall be established in South Africa concurrently with the headquarters. We direct our Finance Ministers
The choices we make now will shape the future
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Guinea to ink cooperation agreement
Wassupafrica02AITEC Participants call for mobile banking regulations in Africa
Zambia and Tanzania commit to future of TAZARA Railways
By Francis L. Sackitey, Accra GhanaThe sixth international AITEC
banking and mobile money conference which took place in Accra, Ghana from the 9th – 10th July 2014 has ended with exhibitors, speakers and participants calling for rules and regulations from central banks within Africa to give mobile money operators more room to operate.
They also called for banks and telecommunications companies to allow customers to be able to use their different networks to transfer money. For instance, a customer on MTN mobile money transfer in Ghana cannot collect money transferred from Airtel Ghana. This according to most speakers does not help the money transfer business in Africa thereby making it difficult to make the cashless mantra in Africa a near impossibility.
The conference which did not only provide a platform for operators, customers and all other stakeholders in the financial sector to update their knowledge with latest international developments in payment technologies, best practices, and latest trends in customer service delivery, also covered broader themes of risk management, governance, regulation and compliance critical in deepening and broadening financial intermediation.
The theme of the conference was “See the future of Banking and Payment in West Africa.”
Ghana’s Finance Minister’s welcome remark which was delivered by Joseph Chognuru, Director, Financial Sector Division (FSD) highlighted the importance of
The Tanzanian and Zambian governments have agreed to inject a further US$80 million in the TAZARA railway line, which is currently also receiving added support from China. The line was constructed some 40 years ago to link Zambia with a reliable rail link to the port of Dar es Salaam. The option through Apartheid South Africa at the time was not viable.
The decision was reportedly reached at a meeting of ministerial delegations, with some US$9 million disbursed immediately to pay for salaries and other operational expenses.
The railway, almost from the start, was dogged with technical issues, poor management, financial losses and a series of never ending labour disputes, but has survived against all odds.
Railway infrastructure developments are high on the agenda of the day in Eastern Afric,a with several projects being undertaken, like the Standard Gauge Railway from Mombasa via Nairobi and Kampala to
Seychelles starts process to give the new Liberty Monument its status as a national monument
The Liberty Monument was unveiled on the occasion of Seychelles 38th Independence anniversary and it represents the country’s powerful symbol of freedom and liberty.
It was Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture, Alain St.Ange, who got the ball rolling for Seychelles National Monument Board to start the process of classifying Liberty Monument as a national monument.
The will eventually mean that the
new Liberty Monument will become the Seychelles 47th classified national monument.
Seychelles National Monument Board said that the Liberty Monument has all “the merits” to be classified as a national monument. Marcel Rosalie, Chairman of Seychelles National Monument Board spoke of the Liberty Monument’s “esthetically seen values and of its historical values’’ which he said weights immensely in the process of its classification as a national monument.
On Thursday 3rd June, Minister St.Ange, Benjamine Rose, the Principal Secretary for Culture met at the Minister's Conference Room at Espace with the chairman and members of National Monument Board to table the motion.
Minister St.Ange said that the Liberty Monument was unveiled at an opportune time, when Seychelles needed to move to the future as a united country.
The Seychelles National Monument Board will now start a documentation process to classify of Liberty Monument as a national monument.
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Ms Lynne Featherstone, Parliamentary Under -Secretary of State for International Development, said mining should change the fortunes of the people for the better.
She said though Africa was endowed with numerous natural resources, the people had not felt the impact in terms of development due to unscrupulous investors and corruption.
Ms Featherstone said numerous reasons such as 'resource curse,' weak government institutions, inconsistent policies, outdated infrastructure, lack of expertise and skilled workers, corruption had been assigned.
'I could add unscrupulous investors with an eye on short-term profits rather than long-term value-addition to that list,' said.
She said should the situation remain unchanged there could be conflict and long-term instability and appealed to governments to see themselves as custodians but not the owners of these resources.
She also called for a long term vision that transcends a political cycle and the individual, and urged investors to maximize job opportunities, strengthen linkages with local markets and supply chains, promote transparency and respect for human rights, in line with global best practice.
Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, said that apart from gold, bauxite, manganese, and limestone, Ghana could boast of other minerals such as iron, steel, solar salt and Chlor-Akali.
He said Ghana needed a major refinery that would serve other gold producing countries in West Africa.
The Minister appealed to investors to consider the venture that would go a long way to add value to gold produced in Ghana and the neighbouring countries.
The Summit created a platform for all stakeholders to chart a path for developing the continent's rich mineral wealth for the benefit of all.
Angola, South Sudan, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Congo, Uganda, and Zambia, among other African countries, participated in the Summit.
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a vibrant financial sector to every nations economic development and explained his government’s efforts in uplifting the country’s financial sector.
“Evidence all over the world indicates that a vibrant financial sector is critical to unleash the economic potentials of an economy and ensure accelerated, inclusive and sustainable growth and development. Government has therefore embarked on various reforms over the years and is working assiduously to bring our financial sector to a higher level that will enable the sector continue to contribute meaningfully to our development process. We therefore find this conference timely and opportune,” he stated.
The Chairman of AITEC, Mr. Seam Moroney in his welcome note stated that “the financial melt-down in the US and Europe over the past five years has demonstrated the folly of a banking hell-bent on short-term profits and bonuses rather than the traditional core role of banks i.e. financing medium and long-term wealth creation through financial facilities and investments in productive activities across all levels.” He therefore stress the need for developing higher standards of customer service, customer education, financial exclusion, driving down cost through innovation and effective security which he said the conference tried to address.
Various companies in the mobile banking industry were at the exhibition stand to display their products. Most of the participants who came from the banking and telecommunication industry were full of praise for the success of the conference. They indicated the conference has helped them to appraise themselves with the new face of mobile banking and will do their best to keep pace with the current trend in the banking industry.
Kigali, LAPSSET from the port of Lamu to Juba and Addis Ababa and plans in Tanzania to rehabilitate the Central Rail-line, with plans also on the table to link the port of Tanga with Musoma on Lake Victoria.
TAZARA links Dar es Salaam with parts of Tanzania otherwise only accessible by air due to the often poor road network, and still forms a key import and export axis for Zambia.
The Chinese government has in recent months made firm commitments to assist in the upgrade and refurbishment of the line and rolling stock, giving hope for rail users, that together with the financial input by the two governments, the railway will in due course return to full operations, cut down on journey time and add much needed capacity.
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Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture, Alain St.Ange
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Presidents Paul Kagame and his visiting Equatorial Guinean counterpart
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo will today witness the signing by their respective foreign affairs ministers of a general cooperation agreement, which will mark the beginning of extensive bilateral ties.
President Obiang arrived in Kigali for a two-day state visit yesterday as the two countries look to boost trade, a major step towards enhancing South-South cooperation, officials say.
The agreement will cover a number of sectors, including economy, investment, security, transport, and mutual support in global affairs, according to foreign affairs minister Louise Mushikiwabo. A key component of the agreement is set to include frequent flights from Rwanda to
Subah Infosolutions Ghana Limited has won an award at the recent AITEC Africa conference for Mobile Money and Banking which was held on Accra, Ghana on July 9-10, 2014. The award
“The Best Exhibition Stand” award was in recognition of Subah’s positive impression it made on the participants as well as the organizers.
According to the organizers even though Subah had a late invitation to the conference, the company nonetheless represented at the conference with professionalism. They noted among other things Subah’s well organized exhibition stand, its exceptional
The Award for The Best Exhibition Stand goes to Subah Infosolutions Ghana
the people, and the Government of Brazil," he said.
He thanked President Zuma for his leadership during South Africa's Chairmanship of BRICS. "We have made significant progress," he said while noting the first BRICS Summit took place in the middle of a global economic crisis. "However, the challenges of economic weakness, and political
turmoil are still with us. The need to address them is urgent," he said. "The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. This is a great responsibility we bear.
"I, thus, commend Brazil for the theme of this Summit –Inclusive Growth: Sustainable Solutions. It captures our responsibility to humanity, and our obligation to future generations. I am confident that this Summit will be a landmark in this mission I extend our best wishes to Brazil as it assumes the BRICS Chair.
"India offers its full support in taking the BRICS agenda forward for the benefit of our countries, and the world at large," Mr. Prime Minister said.
On welcoming the goals set by the World Bank Group to help countries end extreme poverty and to promote shared prosperity, the Declaration said that “we recognize the potential of this new strategy in support of the fulfillment of these ambitious goals by the international community”.
“We support the efforts by the UN, in particular the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), deployed under UN Security Council resolution 2098, and the regional and sub-regional organizations to bring peace and stability to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and we call upon all involved to honor their obligations in order to achieve lasting peace and stability in the DRC”, said the Declaration.
Brazil, India, China and South Africa conveyed their gratefulness to Russia for its offer to host the Seventh BRICS Summit in 2015 in the city of Ufa and extended their full support to that end.
Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea to ink cooperation agreement
to work out the modalities for its operationalization, according to the Declaration.
For the Indian Prime Minister it was his first international multilateral engagement. Mr. Prime Minister Narendra Modi preferred an open, rule-based, international trading regime which is acute for global economic growth and said the BRICS nations should safeguard that the New Development Bank and contingent reserve arrangement should
inaugurate a new example.Addressing the opening
session, he said the new trading regime must address aspirations of developing world and accommodate the need of the most vulnerable sections of society especially in areas such as food security.
Mr. Prime Minister said he was delighted to be at the sixth BRICS Summit. "This is my first Summit and I look forward to benefiting from your wisdom. I convey my profound gratitude to our gracious host, President Dilma Rousseff,
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Equatorial Guinea operated by RwandAir.
In recent years, RwandAir has increased its presence in West African skies, with flights to such destinations as Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria and Republic of Congo.
Working togetherObiang’s visit comes just weeks
after Kagame’s visit to Malabo during which the two leaders agreed to work together more closely to foster bilateral and intra-African ties.
Both Rwanda and Equatorial Guinea are members of the Economic Community of Central African States (Eccas), with the former having rejoined the regional bloc recently.
Minister Mushikiwabo said both countries have mutual benefits in working together both at a bilateral level and on the international scene.
The presidential visit, Minister Mushikiwabo said, is also part of a broader agenda by African leaders to enhance closer ties among their countries, a decision reiterated during last month’s African Union
Summit in Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
In particular, the African leaders agreed to spearhead the integration agenda.
Condemning genocidal pastShortly after his arrival,
President Obiang visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, Gisozi, where he paid tribute to the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and condemned the genocidal regime for slaughtering its own people.
“It is a shame that those who were supposed to protect people turned out to be the ones killing them. What happened in this land was inhuman and should be a lesson to everyone in pursuit to fight impunity. Whoever took part in this should face justice,” he said.
The Equatorial Guinean leader also visited the Kigali Special Economic Zone as a way of better understanding Rwanda’s recovery and development efforts.
The two presidents will address a joint news conference at Village Urugwiro today as President Obiang wraps up his visit.
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The first chair of the Board of Governors shall be from
Russia. The first chair of the Board of Directors shall be
from Brazil. The first President of the Bank shall be from India. The headquarters of the Bank shall be located in Shanghai. The New Development Bank
Africa Regional Center shall be established in South Africa concurrently with the
headquarters.Sixth BRICS Summit – Fortaleza Declaration
Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
customer service which always attracted participants as well as the exhibition of its technology services.
This year’s AITEC conference and Exhibition for Africa saw some new entrants including Subah Infosolutions.
Subah Infosolutions is a leading IT and Telecommunications solution provider in Ghana. Their business strategy seeks to explore a combination of world-class collaboration with leading technology companies for joint execution of projects and knowledge transfer through direct recruitment of skilled professionals.
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THE GAMBIA AT A GLANCE
Country Official Name: Republic of The GambiaHead of the State: His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh President of the Republic of The Gambia and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed ForcesCapital: BanjulIndependence: 18th February 1965Religions: Muslim 90%, Christian 9%, Others 1%Government: Multi-partyTotal Area: 10,698 KM²GDP: 5.6%Inflation Rate: 6.0%Population: 2 MillionLanguages: English (official), Mandinka, Fula, Wolof, Jola, Serere etc.Climate: Sub-TropicalExport Items: Peanuts, Fish, Cotton, Palm Kernels etc.Import Items: Food stuffs, Fuel, Machinery, Transport Equipments etc.Natural Resources: Fish, Clay, Silica Sand, Titanium, Tin, Zircon and possible Oil & Gas.Main Economic Sectors: Agriculture, Fisheries, Tourism and Banking.Time Zone: GMTCurrency: Dalasi
Potential of The GambiaThe Gambia is an investment heaven. This potential and talent is based upon comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic policies, constitutional guarantees against expropriation of investment and for protection of investment.
The Gambia has a liberal, market-based economy branded by traditional subsistence agriculture, a historic reliance on groundnuts (peanuts) for export earnings, a re-export trade built up around its ocean port, low import duties, minimal administrative procedures, a fluctuating exchange rate with no exchange controls, and a significant tourism industry.Agriculture accounts for roughly 30% of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs about 70% of
THE GAMBIA
AgricultureThe nation is mainly an agricultural country with 80 percent of the population of 1.5 million reliant on agriculture for its food and cash income. The farming economy is the single means of income making for the main stream of rural families. This sector contributes 32% of the Gross Domestic product, providing employment and income for 80% of the population, and accounting for 70% of the country's foreign exchange earnings. It remains the prime sector to raise income levels, for investments, to improve food security and reduce levels of poverty. Cash crops such as cotton and groundnuts are grown in
the up-land areas and rice in lowland, riverine areas (rain-fed swamps or under irrigation) for both subsistence and cash. Other principal subsistence cereal crops grown are maize, sorghum and millet.
ManufacturingManufacturing events are restricted to small and medium-scale enterprises producing mainly for the domestic market. There are large deposits of kaolin discovered in one of the provinces (URD), and salt which are currently unexploded. The
call for sanitary wares and quality ceramic tiles are currently met through imports. Investment in a foundry that uses scrap metals for the production of finished-iron and metal plates required in the construction industry and small-scale repair workshops, offers good opportunity. Also, light pharmaceutical industry and light engineering for manufacturing and assembling of electrical and mechanical components for domestic appliances and repair workshops, are reflected to be potential areas of investment. Due to its strategic location and modest prices, manufacturing sector in the Gambia relishes export opportunities to the sub-regional markets.
Service SectorThe expansion of capital market and growth of financial mediators to widen and alleviate access to credit by investors in the productive sectors of the economy will improve the production capacity of these enterprises with the multiplier effects on the growth of the economy. Government is dedicated to establishment of a capital market and other financial intermediaries. Private sector investments in this area are encouraged by the government. Investment opportunities are obtainable in air and sea transport services linking the Gambia and the sub-region to enhance trade as well as simplify supply sources of raw material inputs for the industries. Similarly, investment in river transportation
linking, Banjul and up-country will facilitate movement of goods and people to urban centers. Lastly, the Gambia's open door policy, respect for human rights and rule of law, provides an ideal investment climate.
MiningThe Gambia does not have a large mining industry nor does it own large exposed deposits of valuable minerals or gems, but there are deposits of lower value minerals in certain areas. Successful mining of glass and quartz sand deposits for treasured minerals has been carried out near the coast South of Banjul.
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the labour force. Within agriculture, peanut production accounts for 6.9% of GDP, other crops 8.3%, livestock 5.3%, fishing 1.8%, and forestry 0.5%. Industry accounts for approximately 8% of GDP and services approximately 58%. The limited amount of manufacturing is mainly agricultural-based (e.g., peanut processing, bakeries, a brewery, and a tannery). Other manufacturing activities embrace soap, soft drinks, and clothing.
Why to Invest in Gambia?• A stable and passive country• Easy and speedy investment
approval procedures• Liberal and free market
economy without any ownership constraint or foreign exchange controls
• Functional and effective banking services with foreign currency denominated account facilities to ease international trade
• Free repatriation of capital and profits
• Well-organized port, airport and telecommunications services
• Close proximity to EU and USA markets
• Striking investment incentive packages
• Flexible and modest labour force
• Intellectual property rights• Regional Markets: traditional
gateway to the Ecowas market of 250 million people.
• African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA): exports from the Gambia qualify for preferential, duty free and quota free access to the U.S markets
• English speaking• Friendly and hospitable people• Constitutional guarantees
and safeguards against nationalization and expropriation of investments
• Member of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Member of International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
An Investment Heaven
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Airtel Touching Lives, season three, will share the stories of individuals and groups whose outstanding humanitarian acts make lives a lot easier for the underprivileged.
The 13 week-long series aims to change the lives of people living in trying circumstances by giving them an opportunity to get their lifelong dreams fulfilled - inspiring hope and enhancing people's quality of life.
Airtel Ghana, the reigning CSR Company of the year - Ghana Telecom Awards, has revealed that unlike the previous seasons, #TouchingLives3 will see 24 outstanding personalities and groups being rewarded. By rewarding and supporting them in their philanthropic ventures, Airtel hopes to touch the thousands of lives the recipients touch.
Airtel Ghana believes in empowering people and creating positive impact in communities. By recognizing and rewarding people who have worked selflessly to make an impact in their communities, the company hopes to fulfill its mandate by helping them continue with their efforts to create a better world for themselves and others.
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Barclays named 'Best Bank in Ghana' at 2014 Euromoney AwardsBarclays has been named 'Best Bank in Ghana' by the prestigious global news publication Euromoney. The bank was named
'Best Investment Bank in Africa' and 'Best M&A House in Africa'.
The Euromoney Awards for Excellence are given each year to honour those institutions that have brought the highest levels of service, innovation and expertise to their customers and industries. The awards are widely considered the most prestigious recognition in the financial services industry.
The awards ceremony, held at London's Natural History Museum on Thursday, 10 July, follows recent recognition as 'Best Bank in Cash Management' by Euromoney in 2010 and 'Best Bank in Ghana' by The Banker in 2012.
Barclays Ghana Managing Director Patience Akyianu, who was in attendance to receive the award, said the recognition was testimony of the strides the bank was making towards the goal of becoming the bank of choice by delivering better value banking to the Ghana market.
"This Euromoney Award for Excellence recognises our enhanced value proposition to our customers through the introduction of innovative products and services that provide easy banking solutions," said Ms Akyianu.
Barclays Ghana has operated in Ghana for over 97 years and has
an extensive retail and corporate banking network across the country; comprising 60 branches, three Agencies, 10 Premier Life Centres and two Premier Suites. Barclays also has over 150 ATMs spread across the country.
The awards for 'Best Investment Bank in Africa' and
'Best M&A House in Africa' added to a series of recent accolades confirming Barclays Africa as the leading advisor on debt access and business acquisition on the continent.
'Less than one year after establishing Barclays Africa, these awards symbolise an important milestone in our journey to achieve our ambitions in in Africa,' said Maria Ramos, Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Africa Group.
'This recognition is a testament to the powerful combination of deep local presence and global expertise that only Barclays can provide on the African continent.'
Barclays Africa has been involved in some of the most high-profile transactions on the African continent in the last 12 months. These include acting as Joint Bookrunner on Steinhoff International's Є465m convertible bond, Sole Bookrunner on Metair's ZAR1.5bn ($140m) capital increase and
Sole Bookrunner on the ZAR321m ($30m) accelerated placing of Gold Fields' residual stake in Northam Platinum. Barclays' ECM team also acted as Joint Advisor and Sole Sponsor on Glencore's inward listing on the JSE - the largest listing on the JSE in over ten years.
'We are honoured to be recognised as the best investment bank and best M&A investment house in Africa. This recognition confirms our leadership position as Africa's premier M&A, equity, debt, ratings, project finance, risk solutions and foreign exchange advisor,' said Stephen van Coller, Chief Executive Officer of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB). 'You can expect to see continued innovation and investment in this business over the coming years as we extend our product offering into new markets across Africa.'
He believes that Barclays Africa's unique product capability across financing, risk management advisory, combined with its global integrated investment banking platform, delivers world-class investment banking services to its customers across Africa and played a role in winning the award;
'We are proud that Barclays is one of only a few banks that can provide debt financing locally and internationally, delivering multi-product, bespoke financing and advisory solutions to its clients.'
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Vodafone welcomes the lifting of NCA ban
After the outage that led to the ban, Vodafone instituted various remedial measures to enhance the resilience of its network. The company went through a thorough root cause analysis, which established a power surge as the cause. This in turn caused some boards in the routers to malfunction. These boards have since been replaced.
The company conducted a detailed Technology and Power audit to provide assurance of the reliability of its network. The outcome of the audit was shared with the NCA. Several network performance tests were also undertaken, which showed that the network experience and traffic quickly returned to normal on the very day of the outage once the network had been restored.
Vodafone compensated all of its fixed and mobile customers for the inconvenience caused by the outage at level agreed with the NCA. Full details of customer compensation were published in the media. Whilst welcoming the lifting of the ban, Vodafone Ghana is grateful to its customers for their understanding and loyalty over the years. The company remains committed to providing its customers with the best products and services, and a great network experience. In recent times, Vodafone has invested over US$ 700 million in its network in a commitment to improve network experience, and meet the communication needs of customers. Vodafone will continue this investment in the future to ensure that its customers enjoy the best services.
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In Africa, one person in every four, miss sufficient nutrition for a healthy and vigorous life, and high food prices and scarcity are pushing more people
into poverty and starvation.Food security occurs when all people at all
times have both physical and economic access to adequate food to meet their nutritional needs for a productive and healthy life. Attaining food security necessitates that adequate capacities of suitable foods are consistently available, individuals have adequate proceeds or other resources to buy or barter for food. Food should be appropriately processed and stored and individuals should have sound acquaintance of nutrition and child care that they put to good use, and have access to adequate health and sanitation services.
Presently Africa safeguards food supply by a blend of domestic food production and foreign food imports. West Africa for example hinge on to 40% on imports in safeguarding sufficient rice supply with Thailand as the main rice supplier (FAO, 2010). The total volume of cereal imports in Africa was around 66 million tons in 2010 (FAO, 2013a). This means that for the whole of Africa 30% of all cereals expended were imported. (Cereals exports are negligible: Even if all exports were instead to be used for domestic consumption, 28% of cereals consumed would still be constituted of imports. (FAO, 2013b)) One of the five largest trade flows of wheat in the world is from the US to Nigeria (FAO, 2013a). Despite domestic production and import efforts there were 239 million malnourished people living on the African continent in 2012, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.
During the last two decades the number of undernourished people in Africa has increased by more than 35% (FAO, 2012). This shows that food insecurity already now is of increasingly relevant concern. In meeting the rising food demand caused by the growth in population in Africa, there are three options of how this rising demand can theoretically be covered by sufficient food supply: raise overseas food imports, raise domestic food production, or increase both food production and food imports.
There are numerous explanations heading to the conclusion that safeguarding food supply through augmented overseas food imports will not be a choice which could mollify the snowballing demand for food.
The present world population could so far be affirmed through the paybacks of modern agriculture, which endorses the practice of irrigation systems, chemical fertilizer, farm machinery, and large-scale monoculture farms for augmented efficiency and yields.
The African population is anticipated to double from one to two billion people in the course of the next 40 years. This population growth necessitates a noteworthy increase in food supply. By now there is an increasing number of undernourished people that
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Dr. George Owusu Essegbey, Director of CSIR Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI), has said that the institute is concerned with the application of Science and Technology to address development challenges in Agriculture, Industry and the Environment.
He said the CSIR- STEPRI was focused on demonstrating the practical relevance of research in all its features.
Dr Essegbey made these remarks at a sensitization workshop organised by CSIR/STEPRI, in conjunction with the University of Ghana's Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, for stakeholders on the Development Research Uptake in Sub- Saharan Africa (DRUSSA) Project.
He said Ghana is seeking for innovative ways to solve its socio-economic challenges, as such, the DRUSSA project can demonstrate the out of the box thinking, that enables the country to meet the challenge of effective policy formulation and implementation.
Dr. Essegbey said Ghana needed relevant research and this could be done if there was effective communication and flow of information between research/academia and policy-makers. He said, while policy decisions will always be influenced by factors, other than evidence, including political, economic, cultural and sociological factors, strengthening the use of research evidence is a critical challenge that holds the promise of leading to significant development gains.
Mrs. Justina Onumah, Research Scientist, STEPRI, told the Ghana News Agerncy in an interview that the DRUSSA Project will update the activities of research works in the country, and report back to where it is supposed to be used.
The programme, funded by the Department for International Development, is committed to strengthening research uptake capacity and participation in the international development research system at 24 sub-saharan universities across 12 countries.
Aside its goal of improving the accessibility and utilization of locally relevant research evidence to inform sub-saharan and global development policy and practice, it will also work towards strengthening the capacity of policy-makers in Ghana and Uganda to use research evidence.The programme consists of 'Policy symposia for senior officials on key debates in the sciences', 'Professional development courses on handling science and evidence for junior and mid-level policy advisors, and 'Early career policy fellowship scheme'.
suggest the increasing significance of safeguarding food security.
Africa as a continent is presently partially dependent on food imports yet an adequate increase in food imports is dubious to occur. This is due to globally stirring population growth and due to progressively challenged modern agricultural systems with their high dependence on non-renewable resources.
The mounting global population will cause national governments to cut food exports in order to meet national food demand. Deteriorating non-renewable resources on which the agricultural sector is depended will cause an upsurge in food prices and a decrease in harvests, both contributing to compromised global food production and reduced opportunities for food imports to Africa.
Rather than growing the dependence on food imports, which would pose an increasingly large risk in the future as the 2008 rice crisis has already showed, the African nations must stress on increasing domestic production sufficiently. This objective will however also be severely challenged due to the less favorable growing conditions in many African regions and will be further impaired by the ongoing climate change.
How should the African nations answer to these challenges? Highest instant urgency should be given to developmental efforts that upsurge agricultural competence such as the prevalent implementation of drip irrigation schemes to offset the negative effects of climate change while still increasing production.
Cognizance has to be created about the effects of climate change on food security and suitable adaptive capacity should be created. Changes in diet
and a lower dependence on meat based food might
have to be promoted. Finally, an answer
to the ongoing unsustainable
population growth needs
to be originated.
In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
Africa has the greatest challenge of food security today but Africa also has the potential not only to feed itself but also the world tomorrow, which is why the United States’ campaign for addressing extreme hunger and poverty in Africa is the way for the future.
IS DEMAND EquAL To SuPPLy?
Cognizance has to be created about the effects of climate change on food security and suitable adaptive capacity should be created
CSIR to address challenges in food security and environmental management
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If you are looking for a great African adventure, look no farther than Tanzania. The country pours with wildlife, it hosts
fine safaris, and, of course, it owns an ornament in Mount Kilimanjaro.
The Kilimanjaro National Park tops the list of Tanzania’s astounding sites; there are also the Tarangire and Lake Manyara national parks, the latter of which firms the Tanzania Great Rift Valley; the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, acknowledged a World Heritage Site in 1978, and the Serengeti National Park, which brags the greatest concentration of wildlife, as more than 3 million large animals migrate to the area each year.
Tanzania also features a stunning shoreline. This country is a must whether you are of the adventurous type or just want to indulge in leisurely activities.
Tanzania is a land of contrasts and magnificence, Africa at its most wild and undiscovered. There is the snow-capped summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the sun-kissed beaches of Zanzibar, the vast herds of game grazing on the Serengeti plains and the slow volcanic eruption of Ol Donyo Lengai. With so much natural affluence, it’s no surprise that Tanzania has something fascinating for everyone.
BEST DESTINATIONS TO VISIT1. The Serengeti
The Serengeti National Park extends the complete classic African safari setting. The migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra starts here. The vast expanse of grasslands make the Serengeti bizarre for spotting lion kills because you can see the whole
TanzaniaLooking for a Great African Adventure?
it’s time to explore
sight clearly. The best time to go is between December and June, but you can't actually go wrong anytime of year. A hot-air balloon ride at dawn is a truly splendid experience.
2. Mount KilimanjaroAfrica is recognized as one of the best
destinations for adventure travel, and what can be more adventurous than climbing up the world's tallest free-standing mountain? Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, stands at 19,340 feet (5896m) and will take you 6 days to conquer. The exhilarating thing about this mountain is that anyone who is fit and firm can make it up. No special climbing equipment or know-how is required.
3. ZanzibarZanzibar is one of Tanzania's topmost
destinations because of its enthralling past and its implausible beaches. Zanzibar's location in the Indian Ocean has made it a natural trading center throughout its history. Well-known for its spices, Zanzibar also became a significant slave trading post under its Arab rulers. Stone Town, Zanzibar's capital, is a World Heritage site and brags beautiful traditional houses, narrow alleyways, a Sultan's palace, and many mosques.
4. Ngorongoro Conservation AreaThe Ngorongoro Crater is where you'll see
some of the densest population of wildlife in the world and it's a truly incredible place for photographers. The Maasai still live within the conservation area, and it's also home to Oldupai where some of man's earliest remains have been found. There are numerous lodges and campsites in the Conservation area.
What to do in tanzania?
Canoeing MountainBiking
spa treatments
Diving and snorkeling
Horse riding
Hot-Air Balloon ride
Blue safaris Golf
Paragliding microlight flights
Whale Watching
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SPCOMIt is organized by the Indian Institute of Science. The conference will cover areas like Wireless Communications, Source Coding and Data Compression, Cooperative Communications, Detection and Estimation, MIMO and Space-Time Signal Processing, Adaptive and Array Signal Processing, Cognitive Radio, Compressive Sensing & Applications, Network Coding, Signal Processing for Communications, Information Theory, Machine learning/AI for Signal Processing, Coding for Data Communications and Storage, Audio & Speech Processing, Ad-hoc and Sensor Network, Image & Video Signal Processing and Optical Communications and Networks.
Date: 22-25 Jul 2014
Venue: JN Tata Auditorium, Bangalore, India
Summit on Brand Promotion and ProtectionIt is organized by the Assocham, The Associated Chambers Of Commerce and Industry. The conference will cover areas like to promote brands in terms of global outreach and recognition, to discuss changing marketing trends and evolving consumer behaviors vis a vis brands, leveraging the opportunities of social media along with traditional media for brand promotion while maintaining control over brands, and also regarding leveraging the latest brand protection technologies.
Date: 23 Jul 2014
Venue: Hotel Shangri-La, New Delhi
International Conference on Emerging Research Areas: Magnetics Machines and DrivesIt is organized by the Amal Jyothi College of Engineering. The conference will cover areas like exploring the gamut of relationships between Magnetics, Machines and Drives and many more related topics.
Date: 24-26 Jul 2014
Venue: Amal Jyothi College of Engineering, Kottayam, India
Skyscrapers and Prefab India SummitIt is organized by the Fleming Gulf. The conference will cover areas like Requisites of Urban Planning for Skyscrapers, Impact of Globalization on Real Estate Industry, Understanding Seismology & High Winds affecting Skyscrapers. Some prominent speakers include Mr. lalit Kumar Jain, Dr. Ken Yeang, Mr. Qutub Mandviwala, Mr. Sriniwas Anchuri.
Date: 24-25 Jul 2014
Venue: The Leela Kempinski Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Annual India Enterprise Mobility SummitIt is organized by the Frost & Sullivan. The conference will cover areas like Exploring value propositions for the diverse participants in the mobility ecosystem, Understanding the platforms and partnerships in the device ecosystem.
Date: 24 Jul 2014
Venue: Hotel Sofitel Mumbai in Mumbai, India
UPCOMING
Your life will never make sense until God is in it. Accept him as your personal savior and you will have the strength to be content in all you go through.
tHougHt oFtHe WeeK
Chakchouka (Shakshouka)
African Cuisine
Handy French
2. Stir in the onion, bell peppers, and garlic; cook and stir until the vegetables have softened and the onion has turned translucent, about 5 minutes.
3. Combine the tomatoes, cumin, paprika, salt, and chile pepper into a bowl and mix briefly. Pour the tomato mixture into the skillet, and stir to combine.
4. Simmer, uncovered, until the tomato juices have cooked off, about 10 minutes. Make four indentations in the tomato mixture for the eggs. Crack the eggs into the indentations.
5. Cover the skillet and let the eggs cook until they're firm but not dry, about 5 minutes.
1. What is the time? Quelle henre est – il?
2. How are you? Comment allez – vous?
3. i am so hungry. J’ai très faim.
4. Can i make a call? Puis – je faire un appel?
5. Your nails are so pretty. Vos ongles sont très belles.
piCTuRE oF THE WEEK
The Minister of Water of Tanzania, Prof. Jumanne A. Maghembe calls on the Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Sushri Uma Bharati, in New Delhi on July 16, 2014
HEALTH TIPS» Don’t take medicine with
cold water
» Don’t eat heavy meals after 5pm
» Best sleeping time is 10pm-4am
» Answer phone calls from Left ear
» Don’t lie down immediately after taking meal
Eight of Conservation International’s 34 biodiversity hotspots are in Africa.
How Well Do You Know Africa?You can see mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and what other country? Uganda. You can track gorillas at the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park.
What country is Timbuktu in? Timbuktu is in Mali, West Africa.
Which commonly seen bird in Southern Africa has a head shaped like a hammer? The Hammerkop.
Where can you see the treasures found in Tutankhamen's Tomb? The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt.
South Africa is the worlds largest producer of ? Copper
The population of South Africa is around? 400 Million
1. What 5-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
2. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?3. Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I?4. What jam can't you eat?5. What are the two strongest days?6. What bet can never be won?7. What building has the most stories?8. Imagine you are in a dark room. How do you get out?9. You can hold it without using your hands or arms. What is it?
Brain Teasers
ANSWERS1. SHORTER
2. SILENCE OR A PROMISE
3. AN ONION
4. A TRAFFIC JAM
5. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. THE REST ARE WEEK DAYS
6. ALPHABET
7. LIBRARY
8. STOP IMAGINING
9. BREATHE
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1. So, mr. Jehu mulobo what’s your story?
Jehu Mulobo is a young Congolese citizen born in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo. I did classical music in one of the best
Scheduled to take place at the Teraza Joanne (King George V Dock, Woolwich Manor Way) in London, the event will the appropriate platform where great musical performances will meet outstanding beauty, as ten (10) beautiful ladies of Ghanaian descent battle it out for the most coveted crown, Miss Tourism Ghana UK 2014.
A crack group of Ghanaian and UK based artists have been confirmed to perform on the night with UK's finest Afrobeat musician, Mista Silva, leading the UK group of artists. Performers from Ghana will include Nino, who will for the first time be performing Nessun Dorma in the UK, and the dancehall sensation, Luther.
Attendants on the night are assured of a smooth show with Vox Africa's Kwaku Owuraku Frimpong
and Nana Churcher of the Nana Churcher Show as host and hostess with the current wonder boy, Afro B and DJ Invisible behind the turn tables. You can expect nothing but the best of entertainment on the night!
Commenting on this year's event, Ms. Maria Lovell, the Chief Executive Officer of the Miss Tourism Ghana UK Organisation said 'this year's event promises
to be bigger and better with a few add-ons to make this year's edition more exciting with the competition amongst the contestants getting keener. It's going to be a night where the true Ghanaian culture will be on display'.
The Miss Tourism Ghana UK Pageant is a brand dedicated to promoting Ghana and its various tourist sights to the rest of the world as well as giving the contestants the opportunity to know more about their culture and build their capacities for their future endeavors. The pageant is endorsed by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Ghana, the Ghana High Commission To United Kingdom and Ireland, Ghana Tourism Authority, Ghana tourism federation and Miss Tourism Ghana.
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Miss Tourism Ghana UK 2014 is here!!!
Fashion Icon Awards Organizers Appoints Supermodel Victoria Michaels As Ambassador
institute of arts (I.N.A) in D.R. Congo and in 2010 I travelled to India to study communication and multimedia. I am in India since 2010.
2. How would you describe your music for the public audience if they have
never seen you before? I regularly captivate audiences as a lead
guitarist and vocalist all over the world, my music demonstrate a range of shades and temperaments. The sound builds down to acoustic simplicity, which draws influences from an electric range of genres from soukousse, blues, Afrobeat and Reggae.
3. Tell us about a project, concert or accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career?
The project that is currently in my mind is to make some exchange between Africa and India by art and culture, and that is why I created the music band by the name of “Solo Indien” which is playing blues, soucousse, afrobeat and reggae.
4. What are your fondest musical memories? When I was invited to participate in a music festival in the desert of Kanu/dunes in India inNovember 2012 for the first time, the festival named Ragasthan. I discovered a lot of things there.
5. Have you attended any of the music festivals in india? if yes, then how was it different from Africa?
Yes, I have participated in some of festivals in India as well-known Ragasthan, Holiguns Fest, Duplay After Hours... It was my pleasure to deeply associate with all these festivals and to learn how to organize them in a better way.
6. You’re in india for a quite a long now. Tell us about the musicians in india you have collaborated or worked with?
Well, there are many amazing musicians and bands that I’ve worked with in India like: The Reggae Rajahs, Tritha, Stefan Kaye, Gautam Gosh, Nikhil Vasudevan and much more … It was such a wonderful collaboration for me to understand a lot of things from them and it’s always a pleasure for me to collaborat with different musicians.
7. During your performances, you must have visited various places in india, which city or state you loved the most and why?
Over here, I have played a various concerts in different cities or states in India, but Delhi is the city I love the most, there is some reason behind, it’s a place that I have started my music career as an independent artist and I find right people who supported my music to grow up with another perspective and these days I’m working on my upcoming album “One Love”. Stay tuned for more updates!!
8. What advice you would like to give to the beginners?
Actually, the process of learning to play music is much like learning to drive or swing a golf club. Like these other skills, you require practice to master and love your talent. Be cool and natural….
The supermodel, whose face has been on major ads campaigns for local and international brands and have also walked on most of the biggest runway show in Ghana and international, would henceforth be seen on the face of all promotional materials for this year's event.
Fashion Icon Awards promises to be the biggest event in Ghana's fashion industry calendar, a unique and glamorous celebration to recognize and reward stakeholders in the fashion industry.
A star-studded line-up is expected at the glitzy night on September 6 at Lapalm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra, with great performances from some of the finest artistes in Ghana and mini glamorous fashion parade by some selected designers.
Victoria Michaels was recently honoured at All Africa Media Networks awards as Potential
Supermodel of the year. She has walked on runway of Ghana @ 50 Gold show, BBC African Fashion Week, Dubai Fashion Week, FIMA Show, Dark & Lovely Hair Fashion Show, Glitz Africa Fashion week, and also Special feature in Vogue Italia, Canoe Magazine, Oh! Yes Magazine, Print ads for Agricultural Development Bank, Woodin Campaigns, Cover for Ghana's 2006 Presidential diary, TV commercials for MTN, Billboard for Bel-Aqua natural mineral water, Nescafe, Social media campaign for Vodafone with Dbanj and Sarkodie, brand Ambassador of Ariels Haven, and also, was the House Model for Artdress by the late Fashion legend Kofi Ansah.
The event is organized by Global Dreams Management and powered by West Coast Entertainment Ghana Limited.
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Jehu Mulobo
Supermodel Victoria Michaels
MONDAY | JUlY 21, 2014
sPorts2WatCh 11FIFA slams government's commission of enquiry into Black Stars World Cup fiasco
My players have potential – Police coach
Tour of Rwanda will be better–Ferwacy
Rising Stars: Meet Ghana's team to challenge the world athletics glory
The newly appointed Police FC head coach Andre Cassa Mbungo has said his focus will be on winning honours with the law enforcers.
“It will take time but I will achieve my mission.
I am very optimistic because this is a long term plan. I believe players have the potential to do better on the field and perform at high level,” Mbungo told Times Sport.
He added that he is now focused on building a solid
Ghana's representatives of Susie Acolatse (100m,200m),Emmanuel Dasor (200m) and Ibrahim Yakubu (110m hurdles) represent a significant decrease from the 12 competitors Ghana sent to the last championships in Barcelona.
Just entering her 16th year,U.S born Acolatse will finally make her international debut for Ghana after disagreements over who would be
FIFA has questioned the composition of a Commission of Enquiry
to look into the performance of the Black Stars at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The world football governing body says: 'The composition and competences of commission are unclear' and wants the Ghana Football Association to furnish them with details.
It looks like FIFA deems the three-member body announced by Sports Minister Mahama Ayariga as interference which could attract an indefinite ban.
Ghana President John Mahama through constitutional instrument 82 announced the commission with the powers of the high court to probe all activities surrounding the
Rwanda Cycling Federation (Ferwacy) is planning to make this year’s Tour of Rwanda, the best ever cycling competition in Africa ever since the event became recognised on the UCI Africa Tour six years ago.
The 17th Tour du Rwanda scheduled for November 16 to 23, will for the first time be watched by residents of Ngoma and Nyanza districts.
Aimable Bayingana, the president of local cycling federation (Ferwacy), said that their main objective this year is to raise the level of riders and the level of the competition.
The long-week competition will cost Rwf400m compared to last year’s Rwf372 million.
“Preparations are underway. We want to make this year’s edition even better with hope of having our riders registering better performances this year,” added Bayingana.
This year’s edition will cover seven stages including the new routes of Kigali Amahoro Stadium to Ngoma District (94 kilometers) and Rubavu to Nyanza district, the most grueling route which covers 173km.
Ferwacy has included new routes on the tour following the introduction of Kirehe District route last year which has since been replaced, meaning that the Tour of Rwanda’s total distance has risen to 911.6km compared to last year’s 805km.
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squad not for the upcoming Cecafa Kagame Cup but for the future.
“We will meet different obstacles along the way but with patience and trust, we will have a strong side to challenge for any title,” added Mbungo.
Mbungo’s maiden task is next month’s Cecafa Kagame Cup where Police is placed in Group C alongside defending champions Vital’O of Burundi, Sudan’s El Merreikh and Benadir of Somalia
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country's participation at the World Cup including the management of the senior national team.
Leading lawyers in the country have expressed fears that the use of the CoE instead of the committee violates FIFA statutes which could lead to a ban on the country.
The Ghana FA says it will welcome a government inquisition but must be within the confines of FIFA laws to avoid further embarrassment for the country.
Ghana got ridiculed during the tournament after government airlifted US$ 3 million to settle the appearance fees of striking Black Stars players.
Below are details of the FIFA letter addressed to the Ghana
Football Association President Kwesi Nyantakyi.
Dear PresidentWe have learnt from different
media reports that the Presidency of the Republic of Ghana had appointed a commission of enquiry and investigation into the Black Stars' participation to the 2014 FIFA Word Cup in Brazil. The composition and the competences of the said committee are unclear.
Provided the reports are true, we deem it is important to clarify from the beginning the procedures and to ensure that the Ghana Football Association can operate without interferences as required by the FIFA Statutes.
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her chaperone kept her away from an international meet last year.
A powerful sprinter,the Mission Hills High school student has ran a personal best of 11.59sec in the 100m and 23.97sec in the 200m this season and should be a strong contender to make at least a semi final.
Dasor won athletics reality show "Ghana's Fastest Human" last year
and is now a student at Western Kentucky University in the U.S.A.
The former T.I Amadiyya alum's best event is the 200m in which he has run a personal best of 21.07 this season,a time that needs improvement if he expects to beat a talented bunch of challengers headed by Japanese teenage sensation Yoshide Kiryu.
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Andre Cassa Mbungo
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Excellency, you have held several positions, proudly representing India in the past years. How is your experience on being appointed as the Indian High Commissioner to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania?
On hearing about my appointment as the Indian High Commissioner to Tanzania at Dar es Salaam in early 2012, I was both excited and apprehensive. I was excited because this would mean elevation to an Indian Diplomatic Mission which was of much larger size than the one I headed then in Baku, Azerbaijan, and also because I was aware of India’s close ties with Tanzania. However, I was apprehensive because I had never served on a posting in Africa till then.
To me the appointment to Tanzania entailed learning from scratch. However, very soon, after settling into my job in Dar es Salaam, I realized that the environment in Tanzania is quite conducive and welcoming for an Indian diplomat. I had no problem in finding my feet on the ground in this very friendly and hospitable nation.
Could you please bring into limelight the Indian corporates which are making a strong foothold in Tanzania and in which sectors?
Some of the well-known Indian corporate with a physical presence in
Tanzania are the Tata group, Airtel and NMDC. Tatas are involved in trading and retail marketing, including automobiles, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Bharti Airtel entered Tanzania by taking over the existing assets of a local mobile telecom operator from its previous Kuwait-based owners, and have since invested a lot more to upgrade and improve a wide range of service in this sector.
NMDC is the only Indian entity with exploration and mining license for gold, which it hopes to produce in the coming months.
Several major Indian brands are also well known in Tanzania with local distribution and service facilities such as Bajaj and TVS two and three wheelers (as a matter of fact the three wheeler auto is locally known as ‘Bajaji’); Escorts-made tractors; Swaraj tractors; Sonalika tractors; Eicher buses; Ashok Leyland trucks and buses; Kirloskar diesel engines; Godrej security products, etc. Indian IT services are widely used, including in the banking and insurance sectors. Engineering design, consultancy and supervision services are being used for several infrastructure projects.
Many people residing in Tanzania are of Indian origin. What kind of assistance is the Indian High Commission giving to Indian nationals planning to start their operations in
Tanzania?
The Indian High Commission in Dar es Salaam and the Consulate General in Zanzibar provide a wide range of services for both Indian nationals and the local community. Visa and Consular services are provided on a time-bound basis so as to assist business and other interaction between the two countries. A large number of Tanzanians are travelling to India for medical facilities, which is assisted through our visa facilities. The same goes for about 700 student visas issued annually. The High Commission’s Economic and Commercial Section helps Indian business persons and investors to connect up locally with investment promotion bodies, regulators, business associations and even individual businesses. In case of commercial or labour disputes, the High Commission intervenes to try and settle the matter amicably.
In late 2012, the High Commission took the initiative to organize Indian business and professional interests in Tanzania to come together under one umbrella, called the Indian Business Forum (IBF) which was formally launched in September 2013 in the presence of the visiting Hon’ble Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Dr. D. Purandeswari. The High Commission’s website provides information to Tanzanian businesses interested in
trading with India, and a weekly news letter is circulated electronically to all such registered users. The Mission has worked closely with CII, FICCI and several export promotion councils and associations from India in hosting road shows and B2B meetings for Indian business delegations.
What provisions have been taken to ease the registration process for a foreign company in Tanzania?
Tanzania has now instituted a relatively transparent process for registration of a foreign company. There is a one-stop shop styled as ‘Tanzania Investment Centre’ (TIC) which is the most important destination for the first time investor and business person. It helps such persons to register their companies, to acquire land/premises, to register with the tax authorities, and even to obtain necessary work permits.
Those investors interested in exporting their finished products are directed to the Tanzanian EPZ Authority (EPZA) which functions similarly as the TIC, in respect of entities who would be producing mainly for export purposes. Indian investments in the two decades upto 2012, as per data provided by TIC and EPZA, are in excess of US$ 2 billion, supporting over 50,000 direct local jobs and an even larger number of indirect jobs and self-employment opportunities.
Tanzania and India have traditionally relished close, open and co-operative relations. The true example of this strong bond is the establishment of the High Commission of India in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In an exclusive interview to INDO AFRICA TIMES, the Indian High Commissioner to Tanzania, H.E. Mr. Debnath Shaw talked about the framework of cooperation between the two countries.
H.E. Mr. Debnath shawHigh Commissioner of India, Dar es Salaam
"Tanzanians are travelling to India for medical facilities"
MONDAY | JUlY 21, 2014