10 Reasons To Marry A Man With African Roots

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74893" style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_32971" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74890" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74888" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px;">By Julia Austin</span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74888" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74887" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74886" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <img alt="Pixabay.com" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" height="350" src="http://d22atgph1ebwrd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2014/10/couple-254683_640-620x350.jpg" style="border-style: none; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="620" /><span style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px;"> </span><span class="img-source" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Pixabay.com</span><span style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px;"></span><div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> You might be familiar with common traits of husbands from different countries in Europe, or even different states in the United States. But do you know much about how men with African roots are raised to treat their partners? Family and marital dynamics in African cultures are varied and interesting, and the relationship between a husband and wife is sacred. Here are 10 reasons a man with African roots would make a great husband.</div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> Sources: <a href="http://www.duniamagazine.com/2010/10/5-reasons-why-african-men-make-good-husbands/" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Duniamagazine.com</a>, <a href="http://www.africanmarriage.info/" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Africanmarriage.info</a></div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74886" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74886" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/African_Family.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Wikimedia.org" class="size-full wp-image-74886" height="350" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/African_Family.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="500" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Wikimedia.org</div> </div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He’ll do anything to protect your family</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> In most African tribes and cultures, anything that threaten or offends a man’s family is immediately a threat or offense to him. You’ll never feel alone in your battles—your husband will fight them like they’re his own</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74887" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74887" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/Mixed-couple-e1412808209350.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Wikipedia.org" class="size-full wp-image-74887" height="600" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/Mixed-couple-e1412808209350.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="400" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Wikipedia.org</div> </div> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Your relationship is a building block to him</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> In many African cultures, the marriage between a man and a woman is a crucial building block for a man’s life. After being married, in many African cultures, a man is then able to go after other pursuits. Your relationship won’t just be as something “fun” or seen as an accessory: it will be seen as crucial</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74888" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74888" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/african_american_middle_age_couple_bike_ride.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Sparkpeople.com" class="size-full wp-image-74888" height="254" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/african_american_middle_age_couple_bike_ride.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="390" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Sparkpeople.com</div> </div> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He has a good relationship with his parents</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> In African cultures, men take care of not only their wives and children, but also their parents and even grandparents. If you’re tired of meeting men who don’t have good relationships with their parents, that probably won’t be an issue with an African man</div> <span style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px;"></span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74890" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74889" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74889" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/jamaica-80749_640.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Pixabay.com" class="size-full wp-image-74889" height="480" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/jamaica-80749_640.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="640" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Pixabay.com</div> </div> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You’ll get a big family</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> African families stay very close. An African man feels as obligated to help his third cousin as he does his immediate siblings. When you marry an African man you’ll instantly inherit a large, close-knit and supportive community</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74890" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74890" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/man-319287_640.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="pixabay.com" class="size-full wp-image-74890" height="426" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/man-319287_640.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="640" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> pixabay.com</div> </div> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </h2> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He feels responsible for the well-being of your family</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> In African cultures, the man is the provider of the family. There is no doubt in the mind of an African man that he is directly responsible for the wellbeing and happiness of his family. He’ll think about how all of his decisions affect you, not just himself</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_32971" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_32971" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_32971" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74891" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/8189598644_23ab637fbb_z.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Flickr.com" class="size-full wp-image-74891" height="426" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/8189598644_23ab637fbb_z.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="640" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Flickr.com</div> </div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He is proud to be a husband</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> Whereas in many western cultures, men are taught to see marriage as some sort or prison— something that takes away their freedom — African men see it as a means to new freedom. Others see him as a man now instead of a boy. He is proud to say he has a wife and children, rather than sheepish about it. In African cultures, your success is measured more by how strong and happy your family is than anything else</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_32971" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74892" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74892" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74892" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/man-407083_640.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Pixabay.com" class="size-full wp-image-74892" height="426" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/man-407083_640.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="640" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Pixabay.com</div> </div> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He’ll be shunned if he gets out of line</strong></h2> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> In African cultures, if a man mistreats his wife, the rest of the community tends to shun him and considers him useless. Since one of his most important roles is as husband and father, if he does something bad for the family, his community truly does see him as a failure.</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_32971" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_32971" style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2013/12/117051348.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="ThinkStockPhotos " class="size-full wp-image-32971" height="507" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2013/12/117051348.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="338" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> ThinkStockPhotos</div> </div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He appreciates a home cooked meal</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px;"> Western cultures have learned to appreciate endless pasta cards from chain restaurants, great deals on ready-made chicken from the deli and celebrity-run restaurants. And that has turned the homemade meal into something second rate and boring. But an African man really values a good homemade meal.</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74893" style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74893" style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/PediaPress_Book_Reading_1.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Wikimedia.org" class="size-full wp-image-74893" height="371" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/PediaPress_Book_Reading_1.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="500" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Wikimedia.org</div> </div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He’s open to learning</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> If a man moved directly from Africa to the United States, he already accepts that life will be very different and there will be a lot to become accustomed to, so he will be open to learning from you!</div> <br /> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_74885" style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/couple-254683_640.jpg" style="color: #095009; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Pixabay.com" class="size-full wp-image-74885" height="354" src="http://files.moguldom.net/sites/21/2014/10/couple-254683_640.jpg" style="border-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" width="620" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text" style="color: #666666; font-size: 9px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> Pixabay.com</div> </div> <h2 style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nurturing doesn't look needy</strong></h2> <div> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.7299995422363px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> Many women from the western world have been taught that being nurturing to a man can look needy—like taking care of him when he’s sick or just being particularly affectionate. But African men are very comfortable with being nurtured, and in fact crave it!</div> <br /></div>

10 Reasons To Marry A Man With African Roots

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Nigeria yet to benefit from $3trn AGOA programme– NACCIMA

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has called for a reappraisal of Nigeria’s participation in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), saying the country has not benefited much from the programme.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Agric-date-palm.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Agric-date-palm" class="alignnone wp-image-391952" height="253" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Agric-date-palm.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="407" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">AGOA is a U.S. preferential trade programme established in May 2000 that provides duty-free access to the $3 trillion U.S. market for thousands of products from eligible sub-Saharan African countries.    As of August 2014, 41 sub-Saharan African countries were eligible for AGOA benefits.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2013 AGOA data published by US Trade and Commerce Department, showed that Nigeria exported products worth $5,403,000 compared to South Africa $3,667, 783,000; Lesotho $320,879,000 and Mauritius $199,268,000; Kenya $342,502,000; Angola $66,000,000; Cameroun $21,650,000 and Ghana $34,673,000.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a review of 14 years of AGOA and Nigeria’s performance, NACCIMA Director General, John Isemede, noted: “For 14 years Nigeria has been on it but what has been the take home from AGOA; who has AGOA made millionaire in Nigeria?</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am not saying we should pull out; am not condemning it, however, for Nigeria to continue, we have to assess how did we start; where are we today; are we to go ahead with the old system or there will be some adjustments? That is where experts from the private sector and universities have to come in.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NACCIMA, he said, frowns at a situation whereby America is dictating the price of what they buy from us. “If you are taking produce from Nigeria and we can’t meet your standard, you had better come and investment in Nigeria or bring your own experts to come and teach us the standard.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You asked for ABCD products and you have every right to determine the quality and quantity but you don’t have every right to determine the price for what you don’t produce. What is the essence of determining quality when you have not even worked with our people?”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recall that AGOA  was signed into law by President Clinton in May 2000 with the objective of expanding U.S. trade and investment with sub-Saharan Africa, to stimulate economic growth, to encourage economic integration, and to facilitate sub-Saharan Africa’s integration into the global economy.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One goal of AGOA is to support sub-Saharan African economic development through trade and investment.  The programme offers tangible incentives to sub-Saharan African countries for undertaking difficult political and economic reforms that promote long-term growth and development.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Act establishes the annual U.S.-sub-Saharan Africa Economic Cooperation Forum (known as the AGOA Forum) to promote a high-level dialogue on trade and investment-related issues. At the center of AGOA are substantial trade preferences that, along with those under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), allow virtually all marketable goods produced in AGOA-eligible countries to enter the U.S. market duty-free.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The U.S. Congress requires the President to determine annually whether sub-Saharan African countries are eligible for AGOA benefits based on progress in meeting certain criteria, including progress toward the establishment of a market-based economy, rule of law, economic policies to reduce poverty, protection of internationally recognised worker rights, and efforts to combat corruption.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2013, U.S. goods imports from sub-Saharan African under AGOA and the related GSP programme totaled $26.8 billion, more than three times the amount in 2001, the first full-year of AGOA trade.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While petroleum products accounted for the largest portion of AGOA imports, non-oil AGOA trade was $4.9 billion in 2013.</span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/nigeria-yet-benefit-3trn-agoa-programme-naccima/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_strip_container NA" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/nigeria-yet-benefit-3trn-agoa-programme-naccima/#sthash.gucRobec.dpuf</span></div>

Nigeria yet to benefit from $3trn AGOA programme– NACCIMA

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Greatest Concern and Fear:Could Saudi Arabia Be the Next ISIS Conquest?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: large;">With ISIS on the border, Saudi Arabia is nervous about the terrorist incursion, but remains the source of its greatest support</span></b></span><br /> <div> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></span></div> <div class="article-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ISIS is continuing its blitz-like offensive in Iraq, conquering more and more territory. With its sights set on Baghdad and the Shiite shrine cities, the prospect of the capital falling to the terrorist group is causing international panic. And Iraq’s neighbors, particularly Saudi Arabia, could be the next trophy in ISIS’ expanding cabinet.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The extremist Sunni group wants to reestablish the Islamic caliphate, and has made it abundantly clear that its territorial ambitions are not limited to Syria and Iraq. Maps circulating online over the weekend, allegedly from ISIS but whose provenance could not be established, show large swathes of Africa and Asia, as well as the entire Middle East, draped in black, denoting the group’s alleged geographical ambitions.</span></div> <div class="post-item-type post-item-type-image" id="post-item-91736" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 526px;"> <div class="post-item-type-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a alt="Show sharing options" class="open-share-mobile" href="http://www.vocativ.com/world/iraq-world/saudi-arabia-next-isis-conquest/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain#" style="background-image: url(http://www1.vocativ.com/content/themes/vocativ/images/grid-icon-2x.png); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 35px; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 35px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 13px; position: absolute; right: 10px; text-decoration: none; top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 35px; z-index: 100;"></a><div class="image-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(25, 25, 25); box-sizing: border-box; height: 356.32px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 526px;"> <table class="image-wrapper" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 362px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 524px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <tr style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Saudi ISIS Casualty2" class="vocativ-image-version-top-left-dark vocativ-image-version-top-right-dark vocativ-image-version-bottom-left-dark vocativ-image-version-bottom-right-dark" height="420" src="http://media.vocativ.com/photos/2014/06/Saudi-ISIS-Casualty21081396899.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 354.32px; max-width: 524px; width: auto;" width="620" /></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div class="image-caption-container" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 526px;"> <div class="post-item-type-caption" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This map was shared widely on social media over the weekend, with other variations showing a push further into Europe. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With the Iraqi military fleeing their positions and giving way with relative ease to ISIS forces, the terrorist insurgency has poured south into Iraq and <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-takes-control-rutba-iraqs-western-border-jordan-1608548" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reached </a>as far west as Rutba, a town just 70 miles from Iraq’s borders with Jordan and Saudi Arabia. ISIS now controls most of Iraq’s western territory. Since the capture of Rutba, nerves have started to show in Saudi Arabia. Both worried Saudis and ISIS supporters tweeted a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9?src=hash" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">hashtag</a> translating to #ISISOnSaudiBorder tens of thousands of times within a span of a few hours on Sunday.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since the capture of Rutba, ISIS supporters online have begun circulating maps showing the group’s proximity to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, <a href="https://twitter.com/AbuBakrAl_Janab/status/480971205688954881/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">hinting at its next likely advance into Saudi territory</a>.</span></div> <div class="post-item-type post-item-type-html" id="post-item-91750" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 55px; max-width: 570px; min-width: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 526px;"> <div class="post-item-type-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a alt="Show sharing options" class="open-share-mobile" href="http://www.vocativ.com/world/iraq-world/saudi-arabia-next-isis-conquest/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain#" style="background-image: url(http://www1.vocativ.com/content/themes/vocativ/images/grid-icon-2x.png); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 35px; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; border: 0px; bottom: -45px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 35px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 13px; position: absolute; right: 10px; text-decoration: none; top: auto !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 35px; z-index: 100;"></a><div class="post-item-html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe frameborder="0" height="450" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=206503076099972915830.0004fb81021906110e889&t=m&source=embed&ll=34.452218,42.758789&spn=16.277443,26.323242&z=5&iwloc=0004fc7550de1516189b1&output=embed" style="border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="600"></iframe></span></div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If ISIS were to penetrate the border, the group’s first stop would probably be the Saudi town of Arar, where the Saudi military is stationed. Saudi authorities <a href="http://www.aawsat.net/2010/07/article55249916" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">closed </a>this border crossing during Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait.</span></div> <div class="post-item-type post-item-type-tweets" id="post-item-91717" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 1.2em; max-width: 570px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 528px;"> <div class="post-item-type-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a alt="Show sharing options" class="open-share-mobile" href="http://www.vocativ.com/world/iraq-world/saudi-arabia-next-isis-conquest/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain#" style="background-image: url(http://www1.vocativ.com/content/themes/vocativ/images/grid-icon-2x.png); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 35px; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; border: 0px; bottom: -45px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 35px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 13px; position: absolute; right: 10px; text-decoration: none; top: auto !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 35px; z-index: 100;"></a><h2 class="post-item-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It is only five and a half hours between Rutba and Arar."</span></span></h2> <div class="post-item-tweet" style="border: 3px solid rgb(253, 38, 38); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 55px; min-width: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 528px; z-index: 5;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=999419606" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img class="tweet-avatar" height="48" src="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/479368297087918080/YxGRdfc8_normal.jpeg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="48" /></span></a><div class="tweet-contents" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 65px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <a class="tweet-date" href="https://twitter.com/31_e1/status/480517589706502144" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">06/22/14 01:08 UTC</span></span></a><a class="tweet-username" href="https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=999419606" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">@31_E1<span class="fa fa-twitter" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 5px;"></span></span></a></h4> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">واقترب الوعد الحق مسيرة خمس ساعات ونصف من #الرطبة ل #عرعر #الدولة_الإسلامية_على_حدود_السعودية</span></div> <div class="tweet-actions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: -9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="tweet-reply" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=480517589706502144" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fa fa-reply" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span></a> | <a class="tweet-retweet" href="https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=480517589706502144" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fa fa-retweet" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span></a> | <a class="tweet-favorite" href="https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=480517589706502144" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fa fa-star" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span></a></span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If Saudi Arabia does become the next ISIS target, it may be even easier than the group’s push into Iraq. A groundswell of ideological support combined with wide-reaching corruption could pave the way for ISIS’ penetration into the country. Saudi Arabia, unlike Iraq, is almost 90 percent Sunni. Iraq’s growing resistance to ISIS comes largely via the swelling ranks of a Shiite militia, the Mahdi army, with Shiite fighters returning from Syria to defend their country against the radical Sunni insurgency that is sweeping the nation.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Saudi is also a major source of support for ISIS. Since the latest offensive in Iraq, hashtags translating to #TheAgeOfTheISISConquest and #ABillionMuslimsForTheVictoryOfTheIsis have overwhelming been originating from Saudi Arabia. Almost 95 percent of all mentions of the latter hashtag emanated from Saudi Arabia over the last week, by far eclipsing those from Iraq and Syria, where the ISIS is actually operating at present. The geographic distribution of those mentions covers the entire Saudi Arabian territory.</span></div> <div class="post-item-type post-item-type-image" id="post-item-91728" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 526px;"> <h2 class="post-item-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Distribution of geo-tagged pro-ISIS tweets in Saudi Arabia</span></span></h2> <div class="post-item-type-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a alt="Show sharing options" class="open-share-mobile" href="http://www.vocativ.com/world/iraq-world/saudi-arabia-next-isis-conquest/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain#" style="background-image: url(http://www1.vocativ.com/content/themes/vocativ/images/grid-icon-2x.png); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 35px; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 35px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 13px; position: absolute; right: 10px; text-decoration: none; top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 35px; z-index: 100;"></a><div class="image-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(25, 25, 25); box-sizing: border-box; height: 356.32px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 526px;"> <table class="image-wrapper" style="border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 362px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 524px;"><tbody style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <tr style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="ISIS Tweet distribution Saudi2" class="vocativ-image-version-top-left-light vocativ-image-version-top-right-light vocativ-image-version-bottom-left-light vocativ-image-version-bottom-right-light" height="420" src="http://media.vocativ.com/photos/2014/06/ISIS-Tweet-distribution-Saudi22867363443.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 354.32px; max-width: 524px; width: auto;" width="620" /></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Saudi support for the ISIS traces back to the conflict in Syria. Approximately 1,000 and 2,000 Saudi nationals have been <a href="http://www.vocativ.com/world/syria-world/saudis-fight-syria/?preview_id=54852&post_item=54858#post-item-54858" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">involved in fighting</a> inside Syria, with several hundreds believed to have already returned home. The Saudi government in February issued a <a href="http://www.alriyadh.com/en/article/907177/royal-order-participants-in-hostilities-outside-the-kingdom-receive-3-20-years-in-prison" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">royal decree</a> banning Saudis from fighting in foreign conflicts. Both the Syrian and Iranian governments have drawn attention to purported financial links between ISIS and Saudi Arabia in recent weeks. Syrian state media directly accused Saudi Arabia of funding ISIS in an<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-behind-isis-onslaught-iraq-syrian-state-media" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">editorial on June 12</a>, while the Iranian leader President Hassan Rouhani made a thinly veiled reference to “Muslim countries that support the terrorists with their petrodollars” in remarks on the website of the Iranian state broadcaster in recent days.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to some, ISIS already maintains a presence in the country and even has sympathizers in the Saudi military.</span></div> <div class="post-item-type post-item-type-tweets" id="post-item-91721" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 1.2em; max-width: 570px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 528px;"> <div class="post-item-type-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a alt="Show sharing options" class="open-share-mobile" href="http://www.vocativ.com/world/iraq-world/saudi-arabia-next-isis-conquest/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain#" style="background-image: url(http://www1.vocativ.com/content/themes/vocativ/images/grid-icon-2x.png); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 35px; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; border: 0px; bottom: -45px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 35px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 13px; position: absolute; right: 10px; text-decoration: none; top: auto !important; vertical-align: baseline; width: 35px; z-index: 100;"></a><h2 class="post-item-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We are not on the border. We are here in Saudi and this is our land."</span></span></h2> <div class="post-item-tweet" style="border: 3px solid rgb(253, 38, 38); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 55px; min-width: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 528px; z-index: 5;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=1666568528" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img class="tweet-avatar" height="48" src="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/472056889388199936/GaoSzjTz_normal.jpeg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="48" /></span></a><div class="tweet-contents" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 65px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <a class="tweet-date" href="https://twitter.com/AmtAhd/status/480599898014752768" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">06/22/14 06:35 UTC</span></span></a><a class="tweet-username" href="https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=1666568528" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">@AMTAHD<span class="fa fa-twitter" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 5px;"></span></span></a></h4> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">#الدولة_الإسلامية_على_حدود_السعودية نحن لسنا على الحدود بل نحن هنا في بلاد الحرمين وهذه ارضنا .. <a href="http://t.co/lrKG8VkPGq" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://t.co/lrKG8VkPGq</a></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqtvD44CcAEpjEr.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span><div class="tweet-actions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: -9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="tweet-reply" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=480599898014752768" style="border: 0px; 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width: 528px; z-index: 5;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=2244912001" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><img class="tweet-avatar" height="48" src="http://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/411699475812339712/7Zgi0ZR5_normal.jpeg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="48" /></span></a><div class="tweet-contents" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 65px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <a class="tweet-date" href="https://twitter.com/SAUDI_ARMY_NEWS/status/467856173471789056" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">05/18/14 02:36 UTC</span></span></a><a class="tweet-username" href="https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=2244912001" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">@SAUDI_ARMY_NEWS<span class="fa fa-twitter" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 5px;"></span></span></a></h4> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">في حالة الأشتباه او وجود من ينشر مثل هذه المنشورات,الرجاء التبليغ على هذا الرقم 990 #داعش_توزع_منشورات_بالسعودية -<a href="http://t.co/O6zs4j16RJ" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://t.co/O6zs4j16RJ</a></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bn4otRzIQAE9HJD.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span><div class="tweet-actions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: -9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="tweet-reply" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=467856173471789056" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fa fa-reply" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span></a> | <a class="tweet-retweet" href="https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=467856173471789056" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fa fa-retweet" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span></a> | <a class="tweet-favorite" href="https://twitter.com/intent/favorite?tweet_id=467856173471789056" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fa fa-star" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"></span></a></span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photos circulated on Twitter in March that purported to show Saudi military officers holding up signs of support for ISIS.</span></div> <div class="post-item-type post-item-type-tweets" id="post-item-91725" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 1.2em; max-width: 570px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 528px;"> <div class="no-tweets-title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="post-item-type-content" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a alt="Show sharing options" class="open-share-mobile" href="http://www.vocativ.com/world/iraq-world/saudi-arabia-next-isis-conquest/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain#" style="background-image: url(http://www1.vocativ.com/content/themes/vocativ/images/grid-icon-2x.png); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 35px; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; border: 0px; bottom: -45px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 5px;"></span></span></a></h4> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“@AsawirtiMedia: #الدولة_الإسلامية_تخترق_الجيش_السعودي<a href="http://t.co/bTuzA3budF%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://t.co/bTuzA3budF”</a> #الدولة_الإسلامية_في_العراق_والشام #السعودية #ال_سعود</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bi3qujLCMAEdjtA.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span><div class="tweet-actions" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin: -9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a class="tweet-reply" href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?in_reply_to=445311484986679296" style="border: 0px; 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display: inline-block;"></span></a></span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ISIS supporters have published calls on the organization to continue its advance into the kingdom. The appeal of Saudi Arabia for the terrorist group is clear. 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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: inherit;">The Super Eagles have moved a place up in the latest global rankings released yesterday to remain the third best team in Africa. Nigeria</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: inherit;"> moved a place up to the 33rd place in the Fifa rankings, courtesy of the Super Eagles’ second round finish at the World Cup in Brazil.</span><br /> <div id="entryContainer" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="entry entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Eagles are now the third-ranked African side behind Algeria and Cote d’Ivoire who finished in the 24th and 25th positions.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/nigeria-rise-33rd-fifa-ranking/" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Nigeria rise to 33rd on FIFA ranking"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="BRAZIL, Curitiba : (From top L) Nigeria's team midfielder John Obi Mikel, forward Emmanuel Emenike, defender Kenneth Omeruo, defender Godfrey Oboabona and defender Efe Ambrose (from bottom L) forward Victor Moses, goalkeeper and captain Vincent Enyeama, forward Ahmed Musa, midfielder Ogenyi Onazi, midfielder Ramon Azeez and defender Juwon Oshaniwa pose during a Group F football match between Iran and Nigeria at the Baixada Arena in Curitiba at the 2014 FIFA World Cup on June 16, 2014. AFP PHOTO" class="attachment-slider wp-post-image" height="194" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/EAGLES-260x194.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; width: 250px;" width="260" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reigning world champions Germany remain at the summit of the ranking table with 1736 points while World Cup runners up Argentina remain unmoved in the second position with 1604 points.</span></div> </div> </div> </div>

Nigeria Rises to 33rd Position in FIFA Ranking

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font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></li> </ul> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> China has finished rebuilding the landmark Benguela railway, connecting the African nations of Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The 1344-km railway, which took seven years to rebuild, is the second longest ever to be constructed by China in Africa.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> China Railway Construction, the company, which carried out the project, says that it involved a total investment of $1.83 billion.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> It had been awarded the project in 2006, after its cost-effective bid bested competitors from the US, Brazil, Russia and Portugal.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Benguela railway was first built by the Portuguese in 1929. It suffered extensive damage damaged during the 27-year Angolan civil war, which began in 1975.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The completion of the Benguela railroad will only boost China’s credentials among the African nations. Already, many of them are keen on inviting Chinese companies to help build rail networks.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> In fact, during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Kenya in May this year, the two countries signed a deal for China to build a new railway line between Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya’s second largest city.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The line will be built as per Chinese railway design standards, and is expected to be completed in five years.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Chinese technology and experience in rail networks, particularly with regard to high-speed railways, have also evoked the interest of Latin American buyers.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: Arial, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> During President Xi Jinping’s visit to Latin America last month, China, Brazil and Peru issued a joint statement on building a transcontinental railway project.</div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 0px;"> </div> <div class="clear" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div>

China rebuilds landmark African railway

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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> The decision to donate the vaccine came after the WHO said on Tuesday that it was ethical to offer untested drugs to people infected by the virus.</div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Canadian government will donate between 800 to 1,000 doses of the vaccine, with the final number given dependent on how much Canada holds back for research and clinical trials. The government will also keep a small supply in case it is needed domestically.</span><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Health Minister Rona Ambrose said she offered the vaccine to Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the WHO.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The U.S. is also working on a vaccine and the WHO and governments involved were discussing possible use in Africa, Dr. Greg Taylor, deputy chief public health officer of the Public Health Agency of Canada told Reuters in an interview ahead of the Canadian announcement.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canada only has about 1,500 animal doses of the vaccine, which it invented a few years ago, and would need four to six months to make a large quantity, he said. The government's vaccine is separate from the treatment being developed by Canada's Tekmira<span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/sectors/industries/overview?industryCode=160&lc=int_mb_1001" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;">Pharmaceuticals</a></span> Corp.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We see this as a global resource, something we need to put on the global table to say ... how can we make best use of this asset? "We're looking to do that as fast as we can,” Taylor said, speaking from Ottawa.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Ebola outbreak is the world's largest and deadliest. So far, 1,013 people have died, the vast majority in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Canadian vaccine, which the agency licensed for commercialization to U.S. firm BioProtection Systems, a unit of Newlink Genetics, has proven effective in animals but has never been tested in humans, Taylor said.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last week, Iowa-based NewLink said that BioProtection had a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense for studies to bring the Canadian Ebola vaccine closer to human testing.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We’ve been trying to figure out how we can make a contribution in the fight against this disease and get our vaccine into the clinic,” Brian Wiley, NewLink vice-president of business development, told Reuters on Tuesday. “A large amount of work still needs to be done, but when there is a dire need the powers that be move at a quicker pace."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canada's Taylor did not specify which of several U.S. vaccines in development he was referring to that may be used in Africa along with the Canadian vaccine.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Profectus BioSciences of Tarrytown, New York, has tested its Ebola vaccine in monkeys with good results, its chief science officer John Eldridge said on Tuesday.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still, deciding whether to use an experimental drug on humans is "very difficult," Taylor said.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"You really don't know how safe it is, you don’t know what the side effects are going to be. But in this extraordinary circumstance in Africa right now, we’re trying to do everything we can to assist."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first doses in Africa would likely be available to health care workers, Taylor said.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span id="midArticle_3"></span><span id="midArticle_4"></span><span id="midArticle_5"></span><span id="midArticle_6"></span><span id="midArticle_7"></span><span id="midArticle_8"></span><span id="midArticle_9"></span><span id="midArticle_10"></span><span id="midArticle_11"></span><span id="midArticle_12"></span><span id="midArticle_13"></span><span id="midArticle_14"></span><span id="midArticle_15"></span><span id="midArticle_0"></span></span><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Public Health Agency of Canada was also involved in the development of ZMapp, an experimental Ebola treatment licensed by U.S. firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical that has been used to treat two infected American aid workers. Liberia said on Tuesday it will get Mapp's drug to treat two doctors.</span></div> </div>

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Washington summit, major boost to US-Africa relations

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Omoh Gabriel, Vanguard Newspaper</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The just concluded gathering of business leaders and policy makers from the United States and Africa is being described by as a huge success. According to a report compiled by the Africa Development Bank, after nearly a week of wheeling and dealing in Washington D.C., business leaders and policy makers are calling the first ever U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit an enormous success.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Africa.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s linear, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Africa" class="alignright wp-image-434679 " height="447" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Africa.jpg" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="356" /></a>AfDB report said that the President of the United States Barack Obama was highly impressed by the turn out at the US Africa business meeting.</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The report said “Recognising African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka by name for his role in helping to boost business ties between the U.S. and Africa, Obama said, “We have joined with African governments, the African Development Bank, and the private sector — and I will tell you, the response has exceeded our projections.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Obama went on to say that “projects and negotiations are underway that when completed, will put us nearly 80 per cent of the way toward our goal. On top of the significant resources we have already committed, I’m announcing that the United States will increase our pledge to $300 million a year for this effort.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was all part of a gathering of American and African entrepreneurs, business leaders and remarkably, more than 40 Heads of State interested in harnessing the economic power of Africa, which is home to six of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’ve been to many summits where Africa has been discussed but I found this summit to be a discussion of mutual understanding,” said AfDB President Donald Kaberuka of the economic and development interests forged at the three-day meeting. “I want to commend President Obama for convening this summit, which is business oriented and seeks to look at Africa as a land of opportunity, with residual challenges of course, but a land of opportunity.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The summit highlighted trans-Atlantic dedication to improving Africa’s security, along with human and democratic development through a series of public and private partnerships. The main events of the summit’s final day hit on regional peace and stability, governing for the next generation of Africans and investing in the continent’s future.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When it comes to Africa’s future, Kaberuka said going forward it is important that all sides work hard to ensure the agreements made at the summit are realised. One of the key projects Kaberuka said he has his eye on is the “Power Africa” program.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The African Development Bank plays a big role,” Kaberuka said. “Inside the Power Africa program we have committed close to $3 billion to bring more electricity to African homes and businesses.” With fresh pledges made at the summit to the program, Kaberuka said the bank “will be working with the U.S. institutions to accelerate the programs related to trade and facilitation, logistics, moving goods and nationalise across the boarders inside the African continent because, as the president [Obama] put it very well, trade with the world begins with your neighbour.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Other outcomes include The African Union Commission pledge to redoubling its efforts to advance educational opportunities through the Pan-African University. Benin has set up two business-type incubators and committed to recruiting 15,000 youths in 2015 to fill civil servant positions. Burkina Faso announced a youth investment project involving 46,800 young men and women who will be offered an opportunity to find sustainable jobs in the labor market.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/washington-summit-major-boost-us-africa-relations/#sthash.dIFg1o7c.dpuf</span></div>

Washington summit, major boost to US-Africa relations

By Omoh Gabriel, Vanguard Newspaper The just concluded gathering of business leaders and policy makers from the United States and Afri...

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