Category Archives: Economics

Economic Growth Forecast for African Countries to 2012

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In the World Economic Outlook October 2009, the International Monetary Fund projected the GDP annual percentage growth for most African countries.  In 2010, the fastest growing African economies are projected to be Republic of Congo (12.2%), Angola (9.3%), and Ethiopia (7%).  In 2011, the fastest growing African economies are projected … more

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Chalice looks for cash for Eritrean gold project

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KATE EMERY, The West Australian Chalice Gold Mines is poised to test the appetite of money markets, with the Tim Goyder-headed explorer cleared to start raising funds for its $131 million high-grade gold project after getting the final nod from the Eritrean Government. Chalice hopes to start construction of the … more

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Unfiltered Notes: Blood Gold — Western mining companies enabling tyranny in Eritrea

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With dreams for a better future all but shattered, Eritreans have been fleeing their country in droves giving Eritrea the unenviable distinction of becoming one of the world’s biggest prisons and exporters of refugees (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/17/eritrea-human-rights). The regime’s terrorism against its own people spares no one. Peacefully demonstrating disabled veterans were … more

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Eritrean Drought and “Famine”

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There is widespread fear that there may be hidden famine in Eritrea caused by drought. The question is whether the Eritrean government is hiding information on hunger and starvation because it is embarrassed by its failed agricultural policies? Eritrean intellectuals, professionals and political leaders who met in Addis Ababa earlier … more

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Drought in Eritrea: hunger despite government denials – By Martin Plaut Africa editor, BBC World Service

  The drought and famine that is devastating the Horn of Africa is affecting more than 12 million people.Yet one country in the region, Eritrea, says it has escaped the crisis, reaping a bumper harvest earlier this year.

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ISAIAS ADMITS FAMINE PRESENT IN ERITREA; PROMISES UNICEF ACCESS – 20.11.2009

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NGEx to Commence Drilling at Bada Potash Project in Eritrea

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E.Africa faces famine, Eritrea suffers in silence

  An Eritrean woman with her children in the Mai-aini refugee camp in northern Ethiopia, Friday, July 29, 2011, who has fled her country with her five children out of fear of starvation. Her husband is enlisted in the army but she hasn’t seen or heard from him for years. … more

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Be Informed: Ease of Doing Business in: Eritrea

  This basic information is taken from Doing Business 2011. We encourage you to read the entire 74 page report to get the real picture. 20 years after independence these is the real profile of the Eritrean economic development.

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Christian Aid launches appeal as East Africa faces starvation

By: Amy Shank (AP)Christian Aid has launched an emergency appeal as 10 million people face starvation in the east and Horn of Africa.

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