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Gabon signs $4.5 bln in deals on eve of anniversary
(News/Infrastructure finance)
Tags: [India, Singapore, infrastructure, living standards, diversify economy, oil reserves, La Nationale, timber, palm oil, low cost housing, Ali Bongo, Gabon] ...
Monday, 16 August 2010
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Liberian govt secures huge investment in palm oil production
(News/Trade and Investment)
Tags: [Indonesia, investment, National Investment Commission, Richard Tolbert, government, palm oil, Golden VerOleum, Liberia] ...
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
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Ethiopia to develop biofuels to cut oil imports
(News/Environment)
Tags: [Biofuels, oil, Ephrem Hassen, Castor oil plants, jatropha, palm oil, plants, Ethiopia] ...
Monday, 02 November 2009
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Gabon signs $4.5 bln in deals on eve of anniversary
(News/Infrastructure finance)
... 1,000 km (620 miles) of roads, developing timber and palm oil processing and building 5,000 low cost houses. Among the infrastructure development will be reparations to "La Nationale", the main road ...
Monday, 16 August 2010
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Africa looks to vast forests for carbon credit
(News/Environment)
... houses the world's third biggest forest but is being deforested by palm oil and timber firms, to get $1 billion from Norway in May to revoke those firms' forestry licenses. Deforestation makes up a fifth ...
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
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End of Cameroon-Nigeria boundary dispute in sight
(News/Conflict)
... of preventive diplomacy and a new approach for peaceful settlement of border disputes. Donors are also encouraging both to pursue cross-border cooperation in oil, gas and palm oil production. The African ...
Monday, 18 January 2010
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Liberian govt secures huge investment in palm oil production
(News/Trade and Investment)
The Liberian government has announced that it is in the final stages of securing a $1.6 billion investment in palm oil production. Richard Tolbert, of the National Investment Commission, said the investment ...
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
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Ethiopia to develop biofuels to cut oil imports
(News/Environment)
... oil plants, jatropha and palm oil plants are being developed over 500 000 hectares of arid and barren lands in different parts of the country so as to reduce land-locked Ethiopia's dependency on imported ...
Monday, 02 November 2009
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Sime Darby to create 20,000 jobs in Liberia
(News/Trade and Investment)
... the plantations on which to grow crops, Sime will build downstream processing facilities such as a rubber factory and a palm oil refinery, Tolbert said. Reuters ...
Wednesday, 06 May 2009
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Angola returns attention to agriculture sector
(News/Economy)
... have also said they plan to invest millions of dollars in the war-shattered nation's coffee, sugar, cassava and palm oil industries. "It's a great solution," Afonso Pedro Canga, Angola's agricultural ...
Thursday, 30 April 2009
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Country Profile: Cote d'Ivoire
(Country Profiles/C)
... balance: $265 million (2007 est.) Main economic activity: World's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans and a significant producer and exporter of coffee and palm oil Infrastructure Cellphones: ...
Monday, 23 February 2009
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