The Ministers of Tourism of the Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) opened Tuesday in Angola to debate development of tourism.
The three-day conference will focus on the discussion of tourism’s role in consolidating co-operation among the eight countries of CPLP, namely Angola, Brazil, Portugal, Cape-Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and East Timor.
The CPLP ministers meeting will also be used to balance the results of the previous meeting, held in Portugal, which is intended to review points on “common action” among the countries of the community.
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African oil ministers are considering setting up a Pan African oil company to reduce the continent's dependence on imports, an oil industry source said on Saturday.
The source told Reuters the proposal was on the agenda of a meeting of African oil ministers due to take place on Saturday, which was postponed when some ministers failed to arrive due to transport problems.
"Let's say Nigeria, Angola, Algeria and Sudan all contributed parcels (to the new firm), then we could cut down on imports (by the continent)," the source said.
Africa produced 9.3 million barrels per day (bpd) last year, 11.4 percent of world
The Commonwealth Tourism Ministers wrapped up the just-concluded meeting in Abuja, Nigeria and came up with far-reaching decision which include to be holding the conference every other two years instead of annually.
The communiqué issued at the end of the 4-day meet chaired by Nigeria's Tourism Minister Franklin Ogbuewu are the following:
- In giving due recognition to the importance of the tourism industry for the sustenance growth of all member countries, particularly small islands and developing states( SIDs) and African countries, the ministers highlighted the need to give special attention to their vulnerabilities and specifications.
-The ministers agreed to work together
London - With one round of qualifying games left, all of Africa's five World Cup berths remain up for grabs.
Ten teams are in contention going into Saturday's games - Togo, Senegal, Ghana, Congo, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Angola, Nigeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Of those, four are seeking to qualify for the first time - Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast and Angola.
Ghana is in the best shape.
Leading Group 2 by three points, Ghana - led by new Chelsea signing Michael Essien - can lose their game at the Cape Verde Islands and still qualify. Congo must win their final game
Europe should welcome Washington's offer to abolish export subsidies and cut tariffs and break the current deadlock on world trade talks, British finance minister Gordon Brown said yesterday.
In an opinion piece published on the FT.com website just hours after trade ministers failed to make a breakthrough in troubled farm talks in Geneva, Brown noted the Hong Kong World Trade Organisation meeting was only eight weeks away.
"It is time for Europe and the US to negotiate away their differences," wrote Brown, who currently chairs the Ecofin group of EU finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund's main policy
Europe ponders stricter security measures
The aid that poured in to Pakistan after the devastating earthquake last year has been linked to British terror suspects. The Times described it as a potential link between some of the [Islamist] terror suspects, arrested over the alleged plot to destroy [European and American] aircraft using liquid explosives.
Abdul Rauf (52), father of two of the suspects in the terror plot, who runs a bakery business in Birmingham, was detained before boarding an international flight in Islamabad. Mr. Rauf was questioned but not charged.
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Airline passengers throughout Europe are facing tougher
