State moves to aid textile development

Chinese President Xi Jinping told African leaders on Friday his country would pump $60 billion into development projects, cancel some debt and boost agriculture under a three-year plan that will extend Beijing's influence in the continent.

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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...

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete escorts Ms. Baronese Lindsay Northover, UK's Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development after holding talks with her at the State House Monday March 23, 2015.Behing them is the British High Commissioner to Tanzania Ambassador Diana MelrosePresident Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and Ms. Baronese Lindsay Northover, UK's Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development pose for a souvenir photo taken by the British High...

Businesswoman Loses Textile Shipment Case
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The High Court's Commercial Division has dismissed the case lodged by a Dar es Salaam businesswoman, Ms Sesilia Kabano Kakobe, against Maersk Line, demanding 540,304 US dollars (about 1bn/-) for breach of contract relating to shipment of textile ...

Counterfeit goods flooding the market in Ghana are damaging local creativity and profits.

Over 1, 200 Tanzania China-Friendships Co. Ltd (Urafiki) workers have laid down their tools today demanding salary increments as well as a conducive working environment.

Lesotho's textile industry is the biggest employer in the country, with exports worth $340 million a year.

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