Ambasciata d’Italia ad Addis Abeba SERVIZIO NEWS 07.08.2014 1 Contents ETHIOPIA Fiera Ethio – Con.2014 (11˚ Salone Internazionale Delle Costruzioni) ........................................3 PM Hailemariam Meets Us Secretary Of State John Kerry.............................................................4 Middle East Compa nies Run Over $1bn Worth Projects In Ethiopia .............................................5 Ethiopia : New A ir Transport Policy For Ethiopia In The Near Future ............................................6 Ethiopia : A astu To Enroll Students In Footwear Engineering........................................................7 Ethiopia Se cured U.S $ 245 Million From Horticulture Export .......................................................8 Ethiopia : Berwaqo To Export Camel Milk ........................................................................................9 Ethiopia : A mb Berhane - A gricultural Policies Propelling Green Development ......................... 10 SOUTH SUDA N South Suda n: Iga d Mediators Urge Rebels To Rejoin Ne gotiating Table................................... 12 DJIBOUTI Djibouti, Unicef Officials Meet To Discuss Child A nd Maternal Health Strategies ..................... 13 A FRICA World Bank Pledges $5bln To Six A frican Countries ................................................................... 14 Jobs, Education, Security Top For Africans: Poll.......................................................................... 15 Vertice Usa-A frica: Il Ritorno Di Washington Nel Contine nte?................................................... 17 2 FIERA ETHIO – CON.2014 (11˚ SALONE INTER NAZIONALE DELLE COSTRUZIONI) 3 PM HAILEMARIAM MEETS US SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERR Y Prime Minister Hailemariam He United inv est in Ethiopia and tak e Desalegn met US States had committed some adv antage of its peace and Secretary of John US$800 million to assist in such stability , Kerry on the sidelines of areas economic inv estment to tak e place in the the dev elopment, education, region, and the adv antages US with State A frica Leaders Summit, on Tuesday. noted that the as capacity building, health, and a prerequisite for Ethiopia had to offer. other sectors. (06.08.2014 – WIC) The The also emphasized that Ethiopia was Secretary Kerry welcomed the described the relationship as work ing on continental and Prime Minister whom, he said, “strong and productiv e”, and global issues lik e the climate had said the US was “v ery , v ery change issues. “enormously of Minister State been Secretary Prime engaged with us on many grateful for different issues” as a most of all at a difficult time in and regional leader. [its] leadership some difficult places.” and food security He noted that the impact of climate change on the He referred to Ethiopia’s v ery The Prime Minister said he continent and specifically on important help to try to mov e believ ed the Horn of Africa was an issue the process in between Sudan and South Sudan forward and said the relationship Ethiopia and the on which “we hav e to United States was deepening. cooperate.” bringing countries together to He said Ethiopia was work ing He noted Ethiopia was work ing try effect a ceasefire and mov e v ery hard to pacify the region v ery hard to fight terrorism and the parties into negotiations. as peace and security were the extremism, an important issue basis for all engagements and for ev erybody , and he thank ed He also said Ethiopia had been economic dev elopment and the Secretary a k ey factor for the US in pillars of cooperation. leadership in all these areas, Ethiopia had been a leader in respect to the transition tak ing Kerry for his underlining that Ethiopia was place in Somalia, for which the He also noted both the US and k een US was v ery grateful. Ethiopia were work ing hard to closely with the US on these encourage issues. (MoFA) US inv estors to to continue to work 4 ETHIOPIA MIDDLE EAST COMPANIES RUN OVER $1BN WORTH PROJECTS IN ETHIOPIA Middle East compa nies are which hav e 29 and 23 projects major running 179 respectiv ely . upper reaches of the Nile Riv er, projects worth billion in investment over Ethiopia, Ethiopia n $1 dam project on which represents the According to Negash, Ethiopia, primary water source. Investment giv en its geographical location, Ethiopia has necessary A gency said Tuesday. (06.08.2014 – WIC) alway s had economic, say s the for its the Egypt's dam is national cultural and commercial ties to dev elopment plans. It insists the Middle East. the project won't impact Egy pt's traditional share of Nile In statements Anadolu He said that African countries water, which has long been communication as Sudan, Egy pt, South Africa determined by a colonial-era director Getahun Negash said and Nigeria hav e inv estments water-sharing treaty that Addis the projects are being carried in Ethiopia. Ababa out "The Agency , in to different fields as Sudanese hav e the has nev er acknowledged. manufacturing, agriculture, real largest inv estment in Ethiopia Negash said that Ethiopia has estate and machinery . compared strong cultural ties with Arab "Some 80 of the total projects countries," he said. countries. are in the manufacturing sector Cultural ties "Ethiopia is one of the African as the gov ernment giv es prime Negash attention changes to other drastic countries, which hav e close Egy ptian cultures with the Arab world Negash said. inv estments in Ethiopia due to and this can be mentioned as "Second to manufacturing is tension two part of the factors that attract the agriculture sector, which countries ov er a controv ersial inv estors from Arab countries," supplies Ethiopian dam on the Nile. he said. to the inputs sector," to the denied African any in between the manufacturing sector. Some 35 "Cheap labor and incentiv es of the total projects are in the "We do not mix politics with are agriculture sector," he said. inv estment. We treat Egy ptian prev ailing peace and stability , inv estors the same way we geographical location, bilateral giv e serv ice to others," he said. cooperation Negash said Saudi Arabia has the lion's share of the Middle also motiv ational. signed The with different countries as well as Eastern inv estment projects in In recent y ears, tension has the existing sound inv estment Ethiopia marred policy helped the country to with 86 projects, followed by Yemen and Egy pt, relations between Ethiopia and Egypt ov er the attract former's said. construction of a more inv estors," he 5 ETHIOPIA: NEW AIR TRANSPORT POLICY FOR ETHIOPIA IN THE NEAR FUTURE Ethiopia n Civil A viation The Director He furthered, his Authority has the licensed three companies to Av iation empower the competitiv eness noted, it will in the near future International make Organization’s decision, there and activ ities being tak en in order av iation industry . The Authority to set the African Civ il Av iation has also issued license to eight Professionals Association Office existing in Addis Ababa. operators. General, Colonel Weseny eleh The Association will enhance In the just ended fiscal y ear Hunegnaw, noted the Ethiopia’s new A ir Transport Policy. (06.08.2014 – WIC) The Authority ’s line also A uthority (ECAA) disclosed official in General with Civ il effectiv eness local and the new production ECAA managed to earn 148 the av iation Million Birr from ov er flight and av iation industry as well coordinate the nav igation prov ide av iation Director General said. also for sk illed Ethiopia and foreign of manpower security the Director policy is going to help the ensure of academies of the efficient and up to standard air African continent, Weseny eleh transport. said. serv ices, the 6 ETHIOPIA: AASTU TO ENROLL STUDENTS IN FOOTWEAR ENGINEER ING A ddis A baba Science and in Technology institutions. based on the experiences of (AA STU) is going to start The program is going to be a Indian Univ ersities. offering new fiv e y ears program out of program, which the two y ears will be Graduates of the program will Footwear Engineering, spent on theoretical studies be equipped with the sk ills to beginning from and practical manufacture finished and v alue 2014/2015 academic year. training. On the first round the added leather products, such The Institute is going to accept 25 as shoes, glov es and garment students. products. University a undergraduate the curriculum is developed by the Leather Industries the higher rest learning on Development Institute (LIDI). (06.08.2014 – 2Merkato) According other to Fortune Addis Dev elopment Institute (FDDI) Currently the Institute has 32 Howev er, Wondu noted, “fter masters and six PhD holders in we see the results, we will footwear engineering. reduce the theoretical period to According to the Corporation one Communication Director at the y ear and mak e the practical lessons four y ears”. Institute, Ababa Univ ersity Institute of “We will also AASTU Technology capacity ,” he added. (AAIT) currently approv ed the curriculum three week s ago. The in The program is going to tak e place training will hav e a big impact program includes tanning and in the premises of LIDI using on the sector, prov iding more crusting raw leather. the equipment at the Institute. experts in the manufacturing Wondu processing. Legesse, part Serjabo, has an undergraduate program leather practice increase our B erihanu of the Director Wondu commented, “The industry ”. General of LIDI, noted the new LIDI prepared the curriculum in Wondu program to be launched by collaboration wrapped up preparations to AASTU is going to be an experts from Central Leather addition to the field and there Research institute (CLRI) and will be more courses to follow Footwear with Design Indian initiate furthered, LIDI a similar has course. & 7 ETHIOPIA SECURED U.S $ 245 MILLION FROM HORTICULTURE EXPORT Ethiopia n Horticulture Development A gency while v egetables and fruits tak e mark ets of Saudi Arabia, Japan a share of U.S $ 40 Million and and the United States. U.S $ 6 Million respectiv ely . disclosed Ethiopia secured He U.S $ 245 Million during the Alem past budget year from the performance of the just ended export fiscal y ear has exceeded the of flowers, vegetables and fruits. furthered the y ear before it by 6.4 percent. furthered importers of Ethiopia’s fruits and v egetables are Somalia and Djibouti. According to the Director General, at present v ast land is (05.08.2014 – 2Merkato) Ethiopia’s export flowers main cov ered by destination the further noted foreign inv estors General noted. He are inv esting in the sector, out added major consumers of the of which majority of them are General of the Agency , Alem flowers from Israel, India, Belgium and Woldegerima, out of the total Germany , Belgium and Norway . rev enue U.S $ 199.74 Million Other than was generated from flowers Ethiopia’s flowers also hit the Director According to the Director is are Europe, Netherlands, horticulture. He Kuwait. these countries, 8 ETHIOPIA: BERWAQO TO EXPORT CAMEL MILK Berwaqo Milk Plc, a one Processing month old furthered. He added the requirements, the company will company has secured a quality secure a U.S $ 354,000 grant. compa ny, is preparing to certificate Amir export camel milk and its State byproducts to other East Health Care Bureau and is demand, A frican nations. hoping to acquire the same consumed daily certificate from the Federal extent”. “Fortunately , the milk office. we collect from farmers is (05.08.2014 – 2Merkato) from Food, the Somali Medicine and commented, pretty “We are sure about the huge camels’ milk is to a large organic. This will help us to Currently the company Commenting on this he said, compete with other companies processes 700 liters of milk “The officials will come here in the region.” ev ery day . Yet it intends to and v isit or factory . Hopefully , In ev entually increase this number we will receiv e the certificate byproducts, to 10,000 liters per day . within the coming three day s”. planning to produce cosmetics According USAID has decided to support from camels’ milk , Amir noted. Manager and Owner of the the He furthered, “Hopefully , we company , Muk tar, mark et for dairy producers and will start mak ing Berwaqo is planning to export collectors as part of its Pastoral within the next three monts”. 40 percent of its total products Resiliency According to Capital, a liter of to Mark et Expansion Project. camel milk is sold for 12 Birr in Somaliland. As to the rest of According to Capital, after it the local mark et. the product, it intends to sell it has been check ed for qualify ing at Dire Dawa, Harar, Somali in to Djibouti, the Amir General Hargessa and company in creating Improv ement and addition to milk and Berwaqo is cosmetics env ironmental compliance and Addis Ababa, Amir 9 ETHIOPIA: AMB BERHANE - AGRICULTURAL POLICIES PROPELLING GREE N DEVELOPMENT State Minister for Foreign continued commitment to the commitment to implementation A ffairs, fight against pov erty at first and hand. conserv ation and other green A mbassador Berhane Gebre-Christos said on Tuesday that the Ambassador right mix agricultural of Ethiopia 's policies and Berhane operation of water noted dev elopment projects, assured that the Tigray region had them that the Gov ernment is prev iously experienced fully agreed with mak ing green strategies can bring about frequent droughts a better future of green desertification which development in Ethiopia. escalated sev erity the and dev elopment a cornerstone of had the nation's national renewal of and renaissance. pov erty in the region. (06.08.2014 – A llA frica) Now, howev er, the Comprehensiv e dev elopment of of the region, link ing env ironment told ecological and env ironmental and dev elopment, helped the Ethiopia's Ambassadors, on a protection projects as well as people v isit to the Abraha Atsibeha green economic dev elopment themselv es k ebele in Tigray Regional State, combined proactiv e underdev elopment, that the green dev elopment participation local and desertification. agenda underlined the v alue of communities liv ing in harmony with the agricultural has between the local leadership ecology and the importance of enabled the region to build a and v arious communities was restructuring ecosy stems at the better route to the realization transforming local lev el. of sustainable dev elopment. liv elihoods of rural communities Representativ es through commitment Ambassador Berhane The Ambassadors, who are to nexus with of in modern practices of local the region out of pov erty , drought deepening the lift dialogue liv es harnessing and new holding their annual briefing communities briefed session in Mek ele this y ear, Ambassadors and Consul Ambassador Berhane stressed were k ebele's Generals on the tangible results the need to sustain the positiv e Project, achiev ed so far through water progress and conserv ation mechanisms and successes to redouble efforts to other new technologies. create Water v isiting the Conserv ation near Mek ele. the The of They hav e been able to witness agricultural technologies. conditions prosperous, the integrated promotion of Ambassador Berhane, green dev elopment and the welcomed the who build stable on for the a and renewed Ethiopia. people's 10 The Ambassadors and Consul- progress made at the Sheba Messobo Generals v isited a number of Shoe Factory . United Metal Plc. and Lemlem historic sites in the region, Cement Factory , Food Complex Factory , and including the Abraha Atsibha Earlier, on Monday , they v isited participated in the International Monastery and the Al Najashi a number of other industrial Diaspora Festiv al being held in Mosque, and also dev elopments, Mek ele. saw the including the 11 SOUTH SUDA N SOUTH S UDAN: IGAD MEDIATORS UR GE R EBELS TO REJOIN NEGOTIATING TABLE Khartoum — IGA D other stak eholders would continue on 6 August 2014," mediators have called on participate in a consultativ e said the statement. the SPLM in Opposition to manner it In an interv iew with Sudan rejoin inclusive pea ce talks comes to the negotiations on Tribune last July , the former which resumed on Monday formation v ice-president and rebel leader after rebels boycotted the gov ernment of national unity . particularly of a when transitional negotiations, saying talks Riek Machar said the warring parties only hav e the right to should be confined to the In a statement released on fix the rules of the talk s and its warring parties. Tuesday agendas not the mediation. ev ening, the mediators said the SPLM in (05.08.2014 – A llA frica) Opposition failed to attend the "The driv ing force should not talk s despite prev ious be the IGAD. IGAD should be commitment to the "inclusiv e, the moderator. They bring us Tuesday walk ed out from the multi-stak eholder roundtable together since we are willing to talk s when stak eholders from peace and come the opposition parties, SPLM modalities for comprehensiv e auspices of IGAD, the parties former talk s". should driv e the process," he The rebels delegation detainees and on civ il their process the society groups, were seated to involv e in the direct negotiations. together under the explained. "The mediation renews its call to the SPLM/A (In Opposition) Last to honour its commitment to expressed hopes to reach an Speak ing at the fifth session of resolv e agreement allowing to end the peace talk s, the rebel acting mediation expects the SPLM/A conflict chief negotiator, Dhieu Mathok (In Opposition) to immediately transitional Diing, called for restriction of return to and fully participate in implement the negotiations to the two the constitutional reforms in the warring parties, stressing that negotiations, the crisis. The multi-stak eholder which will week , and the to mediators form gov ernment political a to and new nation. 12 DJIBOUTI DJIBOUTI, UNICEF OFFICIALS MEET TO DISCUSS CHILD AND MATER NAL HEALTH STRATEGIES Top officials from Djibouti's (06.08.2014 – A llA frica) Ministry of Health met with representatives These numbers hav e since the The communication initiativ es dropped to 55 infant and 85 United Nations Children's aim to curb traditional practices under-fiv e deaths per 1,000 Fund (UNICEF) on Monday that are harmful to women and liv e births, but remain high. (A ugust discuss young children. The initiativ es Djibouti's communication aim to reduce maternal, infant rate is one of the highest in efforts to improve child and and child mortality across the Africa, maternal country . 100,000 liv e births. 4th) strategic Djiboutian from Djibouti, according to UNICEF. to health, the Information A gency reported. at maternal 546 mortality deaths per In 2006, there were 67 infant deaths and 94 under-fiv e deaths per 1,000 liv e births in 13 AFRICA WORLD BANK PLEDGES $5BLN TO SIX AFRICA N COUNTRIES The World committed Bank five has billion financing, inv estment guarantees, and adv isory Mak htar Diop, the World Bank ’s v ice president for Africa, dollars for energy projects serv ices for project preparation explained that the inv estment in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, in into energy has to go beyond Liberia, partner countries.” Nigeria, and Power Africa's six initial building power stations and Tanzania. grids. Kim (06.08.2014 – WIC) added gov ernment that the US will also be “Bey ond building power work ing with the World Bank to generators, The commitment is a part of meet the target of generating connected to the mark et, which United States president Barack 10,000 calls for regional cooperation to Obama’s Power Africa initiativ e, power in sub-Saharan Africa. megawatts of new in sub-Saharan must be build the transmission network . which aims to double access to electricity they up We are work ing with African comes leaders and their dev elopment Africa, as well as target and during the US-Africa Summit partners to create power pools allev iate pathway s to pov erty . currently in Africa’s East, West, Central, “We think that the US Power Washington, with a number of and Africa initiativ e will play an African heads of state such as said Diop. extremely Tanzania’s “Those countries with geothermal, gas, important role in The announcement underway president in Jak ay a Southern achiev ing the goal of prov iding Kik wete and Ghana's president abundant electricity John hydro, for Africa,” World Dramani Bank Group president Jim Yong attendance. Kim said in a statement. According Mahama in solar, sub-regions,” and wind resources can feed their excess Bank power supply into a common figures, roughly 24 per cent of pool, while neighbouring states “So today I'm v ery pleased to sub-Saharan Africa’s population with announce that the World Bank has access to electricity , v ersus generation capacity can benefit Group, 40 per from this integrated approach following President Obama's lead, will partner with Power Africa by committing 5 billion dollars in to World cent in income countries. other low less energy and to deliv ering electricity to their people.” direct 14 JOBS, EDUCATION, SECURITY TOP FOR AFRICA NS: POLL A fricans see jobs, community , they think the When it came to Obama's education and se curity as world's richest nation has been support, their slow coming to the party of an respondents in Benin were not economically rising Africa. sure, as were 38 per cent in biggest areas of concern, a ccording to a poll conducted by ONE, the 55 per cent of Ghana, 41 per cent in Rwanda, anti-poverty campaign co- The poll was conducted ov er a 47 per cent in South Africa and founded by Bono and Bob fiv e-day period at the end of 48 per cent in Tunisia. A large Geldof. July surv ey ing 500 people in chunk of respondents, some 42 each country , with the av erage per cent, in Nigeria believ ed age of respondent about 26. Obama (05.08.2014 – WIC) had been "v ery " supportiv e and 49 per cent in The poll comes on the ev e of 4 The margin of error is plus or Tunisia thought he had been to minus somewhat supportiv e. 6 August 2014 African 5. nAs summit of nearly 50 African prepares leaders hosted by US President interest in Africa at the summit, The poll measured attitudes Barack Obama in Washington most respondents believ e the towards where deals worth billions of United States has had "some found dollars are expected impact" on their country and believ e their gov ernment had community although not sure best addressed security issues, how supportiv e Obama had followed The poll offers a snapshot of been. respondents corruption. In Keny a, Nigeria priorities for Africans and their surv ey ed said the United States and Tunisia, security was the attitudes towards the United had "some impact" on their biggest priority . In Rwanda it States from nine countries from country and community . was trade and jobs followed to be announced. to Washington Most showcase its Benin and Rwanda to larger and gov ernments and that a v ast majority by education and closely by education, security more populous nations In Rwanda, howev er, 62 per and health. To respondents in including Nigeria, South Africa, cent of respondents said the South Africa, education and Keny a, United jobs Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, and Tunisia. While most of the 4,500 respondents believ e that the States had a "big were k ey areas of impact" on their country , as did concern. In Benin, 36 per cent 31 per cent in Tanzania, and of the people surv ey ed thought 37 per cent in Uganda. their gov ernment had best agricultural and United States has had some addressed impact on their country and corruption issues. Some 43 per 15 cent of respondents in Keny a, in Rwanda listed security as the respondents felt their 28 per cent in Tanzania, 34 per area where their gov ernment gov ernments needed to invest cent in Nigeria, and 81 per cent had done a good job. All a lot more in agriculture. 16 VERTICE USA-AFRICA: IL RITOR NO DI WASHINGTON NEL CONTINENTE? “Come Stati Uniti, noi non dell’esecutiv o e L’ombra del successo cinese in guardiamo rappresentanti importanti Africa dell’ultimo decennio ha esclusivame nte per le sue aziende internazionali –per tre fatto da sfondo a tutti i lav ori risorse noi giorni si è parlato delle enormi del riconosciamo l’A frica stessa possibilità e opportunità offerte nominando mai Pechino, a più come una risorsa, con i suoi dal continente africano. riprese abitanti, i loro talenti e il Possibilità e opportunità che, riferimento ad alcuni dei lati loro potenziale. Noi per negativ i associati all’attiv ismo all’A frica naturali, vogliamo non se mplice mente estrarre i minerali terreno per la dal nostra stessa di Obama ha non fatto Il v ertice di questi giorni segna, ora, v ertice, almeno dal punto di v ista delle recuperare intenzioni, il ritorno in grande dopo questo stile degli USA in Africa. Un creino posti di lavoro e ritorno legato alla necessità di i Promettendo più inv estimenti, contenere nostri concittadini e che più missioni commerciali, più ma anche legato alla necessità diano alla sforzi di cooperazione, Obama di trov are nuov i sbocchi alle prossima era della crescita ha sottolineato come finora gli proprie in A frica”: a dirlo è sta to il scambi bilaterali tra Stati Uniti quello che si v a delineando presidente degli Stati Uniti, e Paesi dell’Africa siano stati come il nuovo mercato dei Barack Obama, in uno degli ampiamente al di sotto del loro consumi interventi tenuti durante il potenziale: foss’altro primo commercio con l’intera Africa è rimasto. Summit conclusosi ieri a pari L'imprenditore Washington. abbiamo con il Brasile, con un Michael Bloomberg. Uno degli solo Paese. Di tutte i beni che organizzatori esportiamo Forum il via tutti pur a v edere e a cogliere, ma che rapidamente. per e cinese in Africa. partnership opportunità v ertice Obama, gli USA hanno tardato intendono che di ammissione crescita; voglia mo costruire genuine statunitense libera US-A frica leader (07.08.2014 – A frica e A ffari) agli “Tutto scambi in giro il nostro che per noi il l’attiv ismo merci del e cinese, presidiare futuro. perchè Non l’ultimo americano del Business mondo, solo l’1% v a in Africa L’imprenditore sub-sahariana: questo significa Michael Bloomberg. Uno degli Di fronte ai 5400 delegati che che abbiamo molto lavoro da organizzatori hanno preso parte ai lav ori del fare. E dobbiamo farlo meglio, Forum v ertice molto meglio”. Con un repentino cambio di – tra esponenti gov ernativ i dei Paesi dell’Africa, americano del Business retorica e dialettica, infatti, 17 Washington per tre giorni ha agenzie istituzioni sottolineato con enfasi il ritorno acceso le luci sui progressi del gov ernativ e statunitensi, dalla degli USA in Africa come una continente, annunciando una Ex-Im Bank per sostenere le grande possibilità da cogliere nuov a partnership e un cambio esportazioni delle aziende USA per il continente. di marcia che passa da una in Africa o quelli per sostenere narrativ a di aiuti a una di il General Da un lato infatti il ritorno di commercio e scambi alla pari. Electric di v endere locomotiv e e Washington consentirà ai paesi Ecco, quindi, che al termine del altro rotabile alla africani di strappare condizioni Business Forum tenuto durante società ferrov iaria sudafricana migliori anche nelle trattativ e il v ertice sono arriv ati impegni Transnet. Non mancano poi i con i cinesi e dall’altro i gov erni per gruppi (dalla africani si Challenge aziende USA inv estimenti e accordi e progetto della materiale finanziari aspettano commerciali per un importo Millennium complessiv o superiore ai 33 Corporation che ha annunciato inv estimento div erso da quello miliardi di dollari. il prossimo sv olgimento della di Pechino, un inv estimento in In questo totale c’è di tutto: dai sua grado finanziamenti per un v alore di 7 d’inv estimento in Africa con un posti di lav oro. miliardi della tour che dovrebbe recarsi in Se USA almeno del sostanziale gruppo energetica di campagna ‘Doing dollari gov ernativ a Business (DBIA), il in cui Africa’ obiettiv o è prima 13 missione Paesi continente) o il finanziario Carly le (2,5 un dalle tipo di di generare maggiori lo ‘shale gas’ e la autosufficienza degli renderanno Stati la Uniti presenza promuov ere le esportazioni e miliardi), e neanche i grandi ‘politica’ di Washington meno gli marchi ingombrante inv estimenti statunitensi mercato dei rispetto passato, miliardi) delle bev ande Coca-Cola alla africano v eniv a definito “una stretti dalle circa 200 aziende catena di distribuzione Wal- questione priv ate che hanno partecipato Mart. nazionale”, saranno soprattutto agli incontri, ai fondi di Banca Insomma infrastrutture i dati economici e commerciali Mondiale cinesi, ma anche agli APE/EPA dei prossimi anni che potranno europei, rappresentare fav ore e 14 della Sv ezia dell’iniziativ a a ‘Power alle gli USA sembrano quando di la petrolio sicurezza cartina di Africa’, inaugurata lo scorso intenzionati a rispondere con tornasole anno lo un massiccio posizionamento concreta del v ertice appena infrastrutture sui mercati africani per i loro concluso. sv iluppo per promuov ere delle energetiche nel continente e beni e serv izi. fav orire In attesa di leggere commenti l’accesso univ ersale all’elettricità. e dichiarazioni da parte di Ma in questo canestro di fondi leader e opinionisti africani che ci sono anche quelli messi a compariranno disposizione giorni, dalle div erse nei qualcuno della il al consumi dalla multinazionale (circa Africa, del agli accordi in priv ati ricaduta prossimi ha già 18