China/Africa Trade May Hit $100bn in 2010

Author of China/Africa: the Dragon and Ostrich, Mr Adama Gaye, yesterday said trade level between China and Africa has gradually increased from $10 billion in 2000, to an estimated $55 billion.

Gaye said the Chinese government hopes to hit the $100 billion mark before 2010, making it the most important foreign actor on the continent. Also, Nigeria is among five African countries where China hopes to set up commercial centres that will become the offshore base for its commercial activities on the continent.

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Mr. Claude Marthalir traveled by bicycle across Africa

The nice aspects of African customs and traditions we are familiar with to one degree or another. In fact state media often speak about the good aspects to the point of overdoing it. So my highlights here tend towards the critical aspects.

Smuggling goes everywhere. Fuels are one, for instance. They come in all sorts of containers: Jerry cans, soda bottles. The author describes the phenomenon as "shortage compensated by excesses everywhere. Quality and reason are luxury when these stomach cries." What he meant was that there is fuel in excess in the major cities and towns, with shortages in peripheral areas prompting smuggling.

AFRICAN chief and head of his own travel company John Lawler has come a long way from studying for a degree in environmental engin-eering.

Mr Lawler started his travel business while still at university after having a gap year in Ghana in 1998, where he worked for four months and trekked the west coast for four months.

While there, he also made national headlines when he was made chief of the Shia village in Ghana.

It was this experience that led John to start his own business.

Mr Lawler, 33, who is married and lives in Corbridge, said: “My idea came from when I was at university and the experiences I had in Africa.

SA Airways pushes African travel

South African Airways (SAA) is to continue expanding its route network across Africa and adding capacity to existing routes, while cementing its membership with the Star Alliance, in order to turn itself into the leading airline on the continent, says company CEO Khaya Ngqula.

"Our plans for Africa are to keep with our mandate to be an African carrier with a global reach," he said at the airline's headquarters at OR Tambo International Airport outside Johannesburg on Wednesday.

"We are planning to add capacity so we have more flights and destinations to our African route network criss-crossing the continent."

Two additional flights per week to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were recently launched, while one additional flight per week to Luanda, Angola has been introduced to the schedule.

After violence, Kenya tourism struggles

Hotels are empty up and down the Kenyan coast after ethnic clashes killed more than 1,500 people and forced more than 600,000 to flee their homes in the wake of the disputed Dec. 27 presidential election.

Inland, the elephants, lions, and giraffes have the country's game reserves to themselves as safari companies divert to neighboring Tanzania.

After years of boom, East Africa's dominant economy seems headed for a fall. Tea companies are struggling to get bushes harvested and farm workers are stranded far from their fields.