Aid for Africa focus of migrant summit

>Rising violence from brutal Islamist groups in Africa will be a key issue at an Africa summit US President Barack Obama is hosting in Washington this week.

EU leaders are to hold an emergency summit on ways to stem the number of migrants risking the perilous journey across the Mediterranean.

>US and African political leaders and corporate chiefs will get down to business Tuesday as Washington hopes an historic summit will trigger a surge in trade and investment between the two sides.

A special edition of BBC World Service’s global radio programme, BBC Africa Debate, will be coming from the British Museum in London. Presented by the BBC’s Alex Jakana and Zeinab Badawi and recorded in front of an invited audience, it will ask if Africa has outgrown development aid.
Ten years ago the British Museum hosted the launch of the UK-government-led ‘Commission for Africa’. This was the time of a popular global movement to Make Poverty History in Africa, a revival of Live Aid...

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akisalimiana na baadhi ya maafisa waliofika kumpokea wakati akiwasili katika Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Dulles tayari kwa Mkutano wa Viongozi wa Wakuu wa Nchi na Serikali wa Amerika na Africa (US-Africa Leaders summit) uliondaliwa na Rais Barack Obama wa unaotaraji kuanza Agosti 4-hadi 6, 2014, ambao utatanguliwa na mikutano mingine ya maendeleo ya sekta mbalimbali na uwekezaji (2-3 Agosti, 2014) jijini Washington DC. Kushoto ni Balozi wa Tanzania nchini...

Rais Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete na Mama Salma Kikwete wakiwasili katika Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Dulles tayari kwa Mkutano wa Viongozi wa Wakuu wa Nchi na Serikali wa Amerika na Africa (US-Africa Leaders summit) uliondaliwa na Rais Barak Obama unaoanza Agosti 4-hadi 6, 2014, ambao utatanguliwa na mikutano mingine ya maendeleo ya sekta mbalimbali na uwekezaji  (2-3 Agosti, 2014)  jijini Washington… ...

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