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Opera doubles down on Africa with $100M plan to become a media platform

Opera,theNorwegianbrowser-makerthatwassoldtoaChineseconsortiumlastyear,isdoublingdownontheAfricanmarketafteritannouncedplanstoinvest$100milliontogrowitsbusiness

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Chinese firm sells millions of mobile phones in Africa

ADDIS ABABA, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Tecno Mobile sales reached 25 million devices, including 9 million smartphones in 2015, helping it to sustain the most "popular" brand status in Africa.

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Chinese FM pledges more coordination to prepare for BRICS Summit

China will strengthen coordination with BRICS members including South Africa to prepare for the BRICS leaders' summit.

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Sino-African cooperation contributes to visible development in Africa: Kenyan FM

China-Africa cooperation is contributing to visible development in Africa on a win-win base, Kenya's foreign minster Amina Mohamed said Thursday.

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China pushing to build Internet infrastructure for Belt and Road Initiative countries

Chinese government is actively promoting Internet infrastructure of Belt and Road countries, said officials and company representatives at the third World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang province.

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Innovation, reform key to world economy recovery

​Innovation and structural reform are key to recovery of the global economy, which is a prescription given by China at the 2016 Group of 20 (G20) summit for the world economy that has yet to recover from the global financial crisis in 2008.

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Africa is next center for global economic growth: Ugandan president

​Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called for increased investment in Africa, calling it the next center for the world's economic growth.

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Economists call for removal of unnecessary barriers to intra-African trade

​To achieve intra-African trade, Africa will need governments to adopt strong policies that do not tolerate unnecessary trade barriers, said delegates at the just concluded Global African Investment Summit (TGIAS) in the Rwanda, Capital Kigali.

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Intra-regional trade potential key to boosting African economies

​Despite an average annual growth in exports of 8.5 percent since 2010, intra-regional trade opportunities remain to be tapped in Africa, according to the Africa Economic Outlook Report 2016 released on Wednesday.

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Abe tries again to ram self-serving priorities into agenda of international meeting

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has spared no effort in his diplomatic maneuver to make a use of major international meetings to serve his own political priorities and agendas.

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Investment main driver for China-Africa cooperation

An increasing number of Chinese entrepreneurs are turning their eyes to Africa to seek business opportunities.

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Sub-Saharan Africa remains a fast-growing region in world: report

Sub-Saharan Africa remains a fast-growing region in the world despite a relative slow down, multinational professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY) said on Monday.

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The clean energy megaprojects powering Africa

From an Africa-shaped mega solar plant powering Kigali, Rwanda, to a massive geothermal plant harvesting the power of Kenya's hot springs, renewable energy plants are popping up around the continent.

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African economies reap big from cooperation with China : AU officials

China's economic engagement in Africa has created significant benefits for African economies which is a catalyst for the continent to realize agenda 2063, say top officials at the African Union (AU) in Kigali, capital of Rwanda.

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China helps diversify sources of investment in Africa

The emergence of China as an economic giant has boosted Africa's economies by enabling the continent to diversify its sources of investments, a think tank said here on Tuesday.

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Chinese know-how can help Africa achieve clean, sustainable power

​An environment expert has said Chinese know-how in renewable energy development could help generate clean and sustainable power in Africa, which is home to almost half the global population lacking access to electricity.

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China, Africa vow to carry long-standing, historic relation forward

Officials of China and Africa have underlined the need to further strengthen the Sino-China relation and friendship based on past successes and their longstanding historic ties between the two sides.