The 2007 AfDB Group Annual Meetings

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China-Africa Economic Cooperation

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AfDB2007 >> Headlines

·Chinese Premier meets Rwandan President [ 10:49 May 16]
·African Development Bank opens annual meetings in Shanghai [ 10:49 May 16]
·African Development Bank grants more loans in 2006 [ 10:49 May 16]
·China to promote financial cooperation between Asia and Africa [ 10:49 May 16]
·Chinese Premier meets Rwandan President [ 10:49 May 16]
·African Development Bank opens annual meetings in Shanghai [ 10:49 May 16]
·African Development Bank grants more loans in 2006 [ 10:49 May 16]
·China to promote financial cooperation between Asia and Africa [ 10:49 May 16]
·African Development Bank forges ahead with reforms [ 10:48 May 15]
·AfDB reports healthy growth in 2006 [ 10:43 May 15]

·China launches communications satellite for Nigeria [ 09:35 May 14]
·Zimbabwe turns to alternative energy sources [ 15:15 May 09]
·Zambia to introduce windfall tax [ 15:15 May 09]
·China to send engineering unit to Darfur [ 15:13 May 09]
·Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia sign pact on waterway project [ 15:09 April 29]
·Cote d'Ivoire has new World Bank country director [ 15:09 April 29]
·Morocco joins World Bank's low-risk countries category [ 15:09 April 29]
·Kenya's poverty rate drops by 10 percentage points [ 15:09 April 29]
·China ratifies extradition treaty with Angola [ 15:08 April 29]
·China ratifies extradition treaty with Namibia [ 15:08 April 29]

·Zambia hopes to strengthen ties with China: president [ 15:08 April 29]
·China to build agro-tech experimenting center for Zimbabwe [ 15:08 April 29]
·Two units of China-built gas turbine power station go into operation [ 15:08 April 29]
·Zimbabwean deputy speaker urges more Chinese investment [ 15:08 April 29]
·Ethiopia, China sign 158 million U.S. dollar telecom expansion agreement [ 15:08 April 29]
·Zheng He, the envoy of peace [ 14:15 April 27]
·Egypt welcomes Chinese investment in various sectors [ 16:51 April 26]
·China to ratify extradition treaty with Namibia [ 16:51 April 26]
·China-Uganda friendship emphasized in meeting of ruling party officials [ 16:50 April 26]
·China, Kenya agree to further all-round cooperation [ 16:50 April 26]

·China, Ghana agree to raise bilateral relations to new level [ 16:50 April 26]

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao addresses the opening ceremony

Notices

Heads of delegations or other officials are kindly requested to advise the Secretariat well in advance of the meetings,of the full composition of their respective delegations,including,if any,members from diplomatic missions and their staff. More>>

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