It is rolling out 376 small cells that will cover 1 million people who are currently without a signal and the roll-out is now underway. The cost of the investment is US$10 million. That’s US$10 million to cover 1 million people. Now Rwanda’s a small country and it would cost more to cover a larger geographic area but the potential is clearly enormous if it works.
On May 16, General Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, announced that AFRICOM, the American military mission in AFRICOM, would expand its activities, sending soldiers throughout the continent in a new plan of training, and it would involve a new combat detachment. Now—combat division, I should say. Now joining us to talk about this is Maurice Carney. He's the executive director and cofounder of Friends of the Congo, based in Washington, D.C.
As Côte d’Ivoire's post-electoral crisis continues, Pierre Sané discusses the circumstances leading up to the contested election results and stresses the need for the country to be left to solve its own problems. "Why did the international community not i
Markku Vesikon raportti Pakolaisavun ryhmän vierailusta Liberiassa tammikuun alussa. "Tämänhetkisen valmiussuunnitelman mukaan UNHCR varautuu vastaanottamaan noin 100,000 pakolaisen tarpeet ja on siksi valmistelemassa hätäavustuspyyntöä, johon tarvitaan
- SR:s samlade utrikesnyheter | Sveriges Radio 29.11. " EU måste ändra på både attityd och innehåll i de pågående handelsförhandlingarna med Afrika, om det ska bli något nytt handelsavtal. "EU visar ingen flexibilitet" Det är budskapet från Afrikanska uni
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Shale Gas and its Implications reviews estimates that have been made for shale gas deposits in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, South Africa and the Western Sahara and highlights the challenges to their development. In a foreword to the report, AfDB President Donald Kaberuka, affirms the Bank’s willingness to support these and any other member countries and sub-regions that have shale gas prospects
Finian Cunningham: "Rather tellingly, French President Hollande asserted this week: “France is not here in the Central African Republic out of any self-interest… France has come to defend human dignity.” That assertion sounds suspiciously guilt-ridden. The plain truth is France has intervened in CAR for a neo-imperialist bonanza. But it needs a pretext of humanitarianism and sectarian chaos to cover up its naked criminality. This would explain who is engineering the bloodletting in that unfortunate country; and the blood trail goes all the way to Paris."