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04 WORLD/AFRICA
06 DIPLOMACY
22 INVESTMENT
-- NORTH AMERICA Canada wants more business corporation with Ethiopia -- NORTH AMERICA: Nigeria, Canada target $6billion trade volume in 2015 .. EUROPE France signs deal with Egypt for first export of Rafale jets -- ASIA: India-Africa Trade to increase in 2015
-- Promotion of Computer Literacy at UNIKIN -- President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana vision for ECOWAS
-- Access Infra Africa to Invest $500 Million in Renewable Energy Projects
26 BANKING
-- HIS LEGACY TO AFRICA -- Calitzdorp a tourist destination
-- European Investment Bank’s largest ever private sector lending program in Africa launched with PTA Bank
08 BUSINESS AFRICA -- African Ambassadors Make the Case for U.S. Companies to Do Business in Africa. -- The boom of Nigeria’s Technology Industry -- Leading U.S. Manufacturer of Line Printing Solutions Inks Mega Deal in Africa
06 BILATERAL -- Mission accomplished for US Ebola mission in West Africa?
22 INITITIAVE -- USAID, Western Union Impacting African Startups -- USAID Celebrates Women Leaders in Agribusiness
10 ON THE RADAR -- U.S. Chamber of Commerce
12 FOCUS /ENERGY
05 TRADE AGENDA 05 CURRENCY SNAPSHOT
25 ENERGY
29 TOURISM
-- US Power Africa backs $3.6bn Ethiopian wind program
-- Johannesburg wants U.S tourists
20 LOGISTICS
07 TALK NUMBERS
-- Repercussions of 29 West Coast Port Shut Downs
07 THEY SAID
17-19 AIRLINES BIZ -- Arik Air spreads wings to Abidjan -- Kenya Airways to fly to Hanoi in Vietnam from March 2015 -- Aviation: Nigeria big ambition
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