Infinix launches its new X1 smart TV in Africa

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmahPJhw3IlrsGeuzZ9rJVlHIB1dbJ6xbZgpzSknGovKVPKbNTosBQtlMLJpFMhcfdMici6hEnahblUSsc-gMKFkQRqChwzX767IdmvI9AYf89htXt8HgBJLKCeRtreiQkQBw8fjjhN_Yi/s504/infinix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="504" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmahPJhw3IlrsGeuzZ9rJVlHIB1dbJ6xbZgpzSknGovKVPKbNTosBQtlMLJpFMhcfdMici6hEnahblUSsc-gMKFkQRqChwzX767IdmvI9AYf89htXt8HgBJLKCeRtreiQkQBw8fjjhN_Yi/w400-h133/infinix.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UWD-iWuM4nkP4fno9IGOqF4K26BN1bnOg9x90VlkVP4bovn8SbOXtyss17trkVORLS9hxosXza3PYsRFEommwl64ElJFFt61yuEINQVSLcFYr1qgPNYrcSdRiew3e4dZq9Qvt6erz93u3fBvPRI6cpSLW5GjoRmmvwQc2L3mPKW2TnzHSXL8KuQ5nlDXSDcp&c=QfC7I_vwC07OxDLAPhJvIAwFKxp-oNq06XHM7xIN2RgIXBPGA_XUKw==&ch=2u2UM9UKlC09txsnryUiXPB3t0wd4akeddCs7lLP1cJN8LEf7KXbRg==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Infinix</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, a global leader in consumer electronics market, launched its new X1 smart TV in September 7 with their flagship phone ZERO 8. With Android TV™, the high-quality viewing experience, and the AIoT technology, the new smart TV will develop the new business line for the company and take the entertainment of local customers to a new level.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The Infinix X1 will retail at a relatively affordable price of KES 31,990(43-inch)/KES 19,490(32-inch) and will be covered by a guarantee policy of up to 24 months.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Infinix is always committed to providing a great user experience for customers. The new product was launched to reinforce the company's "smart device + mobile connectivity" strategy, as it is determined to drive changes in the industry and offer high-quality smart TVs with the best value-for-money for customers around the world. Based on AIoT, Infinix is set to create an ecosystem of "smartphones + mobile connectivity service + home appliances + digital accessories", and Infinix is launching smart TVs to drive AIoT and help customers live a future smart life today starting from integrating multiple smart devices together.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Infinix always has a strong presence in Africa. S1, the company's first smart TV, was well-received by local customers and media alike, and became one of the best-selling smart TV products in Nigeria immediately after it was launched in the country. For years, Infinix has been working with various market players to develop new technologies and refine the existing ones in Africa. Thanks to its advantage of designing products locally as well as its powerful sales and service networks, Infinix has become a leading brand in Africa's consumer electronics market.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Android TV helps to create a home entertainment center</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The Infinix X1 Android TV makes it easier to get more from your TV. Access 400,000+ movies and shows, play music and games, cast from any device onto your TV, and add the apps you use most - all with Android TV.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Infinix has a precise insight into African users' love for music, so X1 is preloaded with Boomplay Music, the most popular music app in Africa. While enjoying a massive library of music, they can also project the music videos of their idols on the big screen of X1 to turn their living room into the scene of a live show.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">X1 will become the center for the reunions of families and friends, as they will have many topics to talk about from the hot TV series Game of Thrones to Africa's top dating show Hello Mr. Right as well as the best hip-hop songs in the world.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Enjoy an immersive experience with your frameless HD home theater</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Infinix adopts a frameless design, which represents a global trend for high-end TVs in 2020, for the X1 smart TV. A frameless design substantially increases the screen-to-body ratio. A larger screen provides better visual enjoyment for viewers and delivers a bigger visual impact for them. Meanwhile, the frameless design of X1 enables it to be perfected integrated into home design. As the back panel of X1 is made of metal, the TV looks not just thinner and slimmer, but also more beautiful and more rugged.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">To create an immersive home theater experience, X1 also comes with the 24W high-quality speakers (for 43-inch), and supports Dolby Audio and AAC sound effects. Combined with Boomplay, based on big data of music to conduct professional voice calibration, allowing you to lie down on the couch and watch your favorite movie in the most comfortable manner immersed in a home theater created by X1. You can also invite some friends to watch a movie together. Yes, you may enjoy popcorn, beer and soda, but X1 will definitely play the leading role at the party.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>With AIoT, the future is now</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition to the massive content and the frameless home theater experience, the Infinix X1 smart TV also comes with an AIoT-based feature for screen projection, so that you can project interesting stuff like YouTube videos from your smartphone or PC to the TV screen and share them with others. This feature will turn the TV screen of X1 into an extended display of your smartphone or PC with the Infinix Life app based on protocols such as DLNA, AirPlay, and Chromecast, so that you can interact with and switch between different screens seamlessly for a better experience of working, gaming or entertainment.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The release of X1 will help to create an AIoT ecosystem and improve the user experience for African customers. In this sense, X1 is not just a new product, but also an upgraded lifestyle for local customers. It will enable them to live a future smart life today, as the future is really now.</div></span></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: New;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><em style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UWD-iWuM4nkP4fno9IGOqF4K26BN1bnOg9x90VlkVP4bovn8SbOXt4b9m6aq8PVVEldLsbMOaVN6oYLATV7C-UPBAOlx3n2J2zMHJRpKbqnQOs3uPchHk7Db8w0po9DuRz3bgmvKPTyidBa9p6rC6reosLrSmPk1SJg6f5EW7NbGG-C2VnAupbt5-Na-qyqz&c=QfC7I_vwC07OxDLAPhJvIAwFKxp-oNq06XHM7xIN2RgIXBPGA_XUKw==&ch=2u2UM9UKlC09txsnryUiXPB3t0wd4akeddCs7lLP1cJN8LEf7KXbRg==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">African Media Agency (AMA)</a> on behalf of Infinix.</span></em></div></span>

Infinix launches its new X1 smart TV in Africa

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African Private Sector Upbeat About The Future But Demands Fairer And More Transparent Global Trading System

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTPcpdGaDlkthxEwt7q8bZASjLqhgctBI176tJURGu0S2ytPnidXOdPsfjSGYqw0f5E4V5bz_VXhqhyphenhyphenQaKAFoxQinzaEq5CbfP56J5uNJp_wmXFFCQ-5oIpmhAE1X1PNvLZu-a79qkYhTy/s1191/pan+african.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="1191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTPcpdGaDlkthxEwt7q8bZASjLqhgctBI176tJURGu0S2ytPnidXOdPsfjSGYqw0f5E4V5bz_VXhqhyphenhyphenQaKAFoxQinzaEq5CbfP56J5uNJp_wmXFFCQ-5oIpmhAE1X1PNvLZu-a79qkYhTy/s320/pan+african.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A survey commissioned by the Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC) to gauge the private sector view around trade has highlighted the private sector's desire for considerable reforms to make the global trade rules system fairer and more transparent.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Two hundred CEOs were surveyed around issues concerning the WTO and trade in general. It was done in light of the next phase of ongoing consultations to select the institution's next Director General. Three of the eight candidates are African: Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Kenya's Amina Mohamed and Egypt's Abdel-Hamid Mamdouh.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The survey covered a number of areas which revealed a general consensus that the current rules penalise the African continent and its private sector. 86.6% of the respondents understand the role of the WTO in global trade. However, a majority believe the WTO is not effective in fulfilling its role. As much as infrastructure, logistics and human capital were cited as two major constraints to growth in Africa, the CEOs also stressed the skewed international trade regime as another key constraint.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of Afreximbank said "As the pan-African trade finance bank, Afreximbank has been mandated to host the PAFTRAC secretariat. Any reform needs to support a burgeoning African private sector and an increasingly integrated Africa. We have seen, over the past quarter of a century since the WTO was formed, the emergence of a robust and dynamic African private sector, and more recently significant steps to integrate Africa under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). The WTO and its new leadership will need to recognise the imperative of African integration and put development at the centre of any trade agenda."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Interestingly, if the majority of CEOs believed that the global trading system was unfair, most also see the multilateral system strengthening in the coming years. They outlined a set of reforms that should be undertaken for a fairer and more transparent trading system, including in the areas of voice and participation, tariffs and non-tariff barriers, agriculture and subsidies.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The CEOs were also optimistic about the future outlook: over 50% of CEOs believe global trade will increase over the next 12 months; and over 70% of CEOs believe intra-africa trade will increase over the next 12 months.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Pat Utomi, Chair of PAFTRAC, stressed that unless reform was forthcoming the current global crisis may penalise the African private sector even further: "We have seen during this pandemic companies in the industrialised world have received massive bailouts, tax incentives, not to mention government contracts and fiscal stimuli. Companies in Africa were not so fortunate and will have to deal with a world where trade will be depressed because of the post-covid environment. As such, a fairer global trade environment and trading system is more urgent today than ever."</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The survey as well as a debate around a communiqué to be sent to all candidates who are in the race for the directorship of the WTO will be presented at a webinar taking place this afternoon, and hosted by the Afreximbank.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Distributed by <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UFXtx77Zn1upuyF9pCIUqDEENr54wJv-icyyMOxdXlmmtVt9qlkC9WvtjDERHm3SJXiPQxuvod8dHNTjiw_RhHgCP8VgSDq2gvzSCxxFgGJnSruWj8eHD2LVW0Wa1JrDJ4By8RCEcT7HpwisWWD8jvwOwI8dCpScEF6CE9hSOy_JiWdtoHW89KJAyRvYIw3e&c=e-dk1sQ8rPdLL8kP9dqK4PBg-irAbV8ENi-kRkw2CCRJyohnTQo9Iw==&ch=N3B57_tMXmHOsbnvTR_yMOWh89Qur763vONrr1sVNZ4iLDLbFOHveA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">African Media Agency (AMA)</a> on behalf of PAFTRAC.</em></div></em></span>

African Private Sector Upbeat About The Future But Demands Fairer And More Transparent Global Trading System

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Africa’s Energy Transition

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0O-Yx2oCZfjlAT98JYLOivIChLbXEiM_nhj_OK5qmpLvuw7eI-R7wN684cHeDnvTIjOW-UsxhLIdiLYS8gPb9I4rZxCYah0M_k1TiBGLe-YL6Rp2pgxGG6_z4wyKZ5UCeyQQ9834CTvk0/s250/africa+ene.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="123" data-original-width="250" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0O-Yx2oCZfjlAT98JYLOivIChLbXEiM_nhj_OK5qmpLvuw7eI-R7wN684cHeDnvTIjOW-UsxhLIdiLYS8gPb9I4rZxCYah0M_k1TiBGLe-YL6Rp2pgxGG6_z4wyKZ5UCeyQQ9834CTvk0/w313-h154/africa+ene.png" width="313" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Is natural gas or renewable energy the better option for navigating Africa through the energy transition? A growing population coupled with economic growth and industrialisation mean energy demand on the continent is forecast to grow rapidly in the coming years. With massive gas projects underway in countries including Egypt and Mozambique, and costs of key renewable technologies falling, policymakers are now faced with a range of options to secure Africa’s energy future.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Senior industry leaders, hand-chosen for the breadth and depth of their expertise on both sides of the argument, will be going head-to-head at</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><a href="https://www.africa-oilweek.com/Page/aow-virtual" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">AOW Virtual</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> to debate these points and share their views on the energy transition, both in Africa and globally. The live audience will be invited to engage with the debaters directly using Q&A and polling technology. Speakers taking to the stage are:</span></div><p></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Steven Winberg, Assistant Secretary of Fossil Energy, <strong>U.S. Department of Energy</strong></span></span></li><li class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Omar Mithá,<strong> Special Economic Advisor to H.E. Filipe Nyusi, President of Mozambique</strong></span></span></li><li class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tony Attah, MD & CEO, <strong>Nigeria LNG</strong></span></span></li><li class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Andrew M. Herscowitz, Chief Development Officer, <strong>International Development Finance Corporation</strong></span></span></li><li class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Luc Koechlin, MD, Head of Southern Africa, <strong>EDF</strong></span></span></li><li class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Liv Hovem, CEO, <strong>DNV GL</strong></span></span></li><li class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Senior Representative, <strong>BP</strong></span></span></li></ul><p class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">What is AOW Virtual? Brought to you by Africa Oil Week (AOW), AOW Virtual (7-8 October 2020) is a free to attend online conference aimed at reigniting African oil, gas and energy. True to AOW’s roots, the conference will be packed full of strategic outlooks, debates, and a much-anticipated government bidding round. It will offer AOW’s global oil and gas audience a platform to discuss insights, challenges and opportunities post COVID-19.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;">100s of C-level executives from across the value chain are expected to attend, as well as government representatives from countries including Somalia, Namibia, South Africa and the USA. Plus, AOW Virtual is CPD certified, so attending sessions will count towards your continuing professional development. <a href="https://www.africa-oilweek.com/Page/aow-virtual" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank"><strong>Register now for free</strong></a> .</div></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv5650722562MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africa Oil Week.</span></span></i></p></div>

Africa’s Energy Transition

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PAFTRAC challenges WTO to hear Africa's voice

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwv-qEqpe4OojKXlv7D9PZEe361rtI2E7J_tS13R8yEXQfgzZdRxU49R8XUtx8sTFOUGrZxuab75XUYEreN8wsv_MmPNDofHJhnpSKetevlP49ZXSl2KwK86LZy5UqLZYvt3kcs82K-thN/s1191/pan+african.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="1191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwv-qEqpe4OojKXlv7D9PZEe361rtI2E7J_tS13R8yEXQfgzZdRxU49R8XUtx8sTFOUGrZxuab75XUYEreN8wsv_MmPNDofHJhnpSKetevlP49ZXSl2KwK86LZy5UqLZYvt3kcs82K-thN/s320/pan+african.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The  <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following a meeting convened by the Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC) and hosted by the Afreximbank, a communiqué addressed to members of the WTO and the eight candidates who have been shortlisted as the institution's next Director General was released yesterday calling for a wide range of reforms.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The communiqué was formulated following numerous consultations with PAFTRAC members, its institutional partners, and through a comprehensive survey of the African private sector. Within it, the Committee have highlighted a number of recommendations to ensure the institution is more effective in growing global trade but doing so in a manner that is fair to all.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The communiqué stated that "ignoring the voice of Africa and other emerging economies will have dramatic consequences for and undermine the relevance of the WTO and the rules-based system at a time when multilateralism is already under threat."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the opening remarks at the meeting, the President of the Afreximbank stated that "Africa has played an important but largely under-valued role in the global economy." He cited that Africa's global share of trade has fallen from 4.4% in 1970 to 2.5% today, whilst the share of Asia has risen from 7.7% to 20% over that same period. "Whilst this is the result of numerous factors, including fragmented markets and persistent supply-side constraints," he said, "tariff escalations and stringent standards on final goods in developed economies have limited Africa's potential to move up value chains."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The communiqué called for the WTO to ensure "that development issues are front and centre of its reform agenda." They specifically called for African countries to be afforded Special and Differential Treatment that will allow flexibilities and sufficient policy space to support local industries and advance development. The African private sector also emphasised the importance of addressing subsidises and state-aid in developed economies which continue to confine Africa to the bottom of global value chains.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">With the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) coming into effect in 2021, they also requested that African integration under the AfCFTA and the establishment of an African Common Market is not undermined by multilateral negotiations.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The organisers called for the voice of the African private sector be "heard and considered under the multilateral framework," so that the private sector can not only compete fairly but also grow.  Trade, they said, is vital to generate the volume and quality of jobs required to absorb over 17 million young Africans who are entering the labour market every year.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>Distributed by <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001vhqs4H1VX8VPKXgtTeQuEeaFC--CUl3KYck8HYHkrk-LP575BUBCQmX9bHId-dKUwe7h7HZ7zsuon11v-71wQZUCX-xEC_5erc5xQ89jtOeoQO7nO5WtbQ2S8-RD1Msq6vb4Dh21VpdLzyxwo4U3inGV_hIELf3VU7wCHSU_2c4ygNNA4FOAbjWxwsMQTJ1S&c=x1kvDBtcr-zKRvbcXXlFVhBdpjCBCbiJvPDxqGYAq9rco5TCekbXYw==&ch=tuL6xeiLm2Tv4Ia6emh_pFot_-c500EZngJE5r0w6jhdhDa05QaNsw==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">African Media Agency (AMA)</a> on behalf of PAFTRAC.</em></div></em></span>

PAFTRAC challenges WTO to hear Africa's voice

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvwWLq964DzhCeMPjZzAc5dSRaRtow0LcURcxtYhUYP3g_YXXJfEgMPIMqL-U79jlQZpmrkfaqOAKTOHVz9QhoC9q9DCztQLed6SggYXo9UwkeheiVTVEYpK4YUoFDtnm1EEgwFUyQcdrz/s250/no.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="26" data-original-width="250" height="31" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvwWLq964DzhCeMPjZzAc5dSRaRtow0LcURcxtYhUYP3g_YXXJfEgMPIMqL-U79jlQZpmrkfaqOAKTOHVz9QhoC9q9DCztQLed6SggYXo9UwkeheiVTVEYpK4YUoFDtnm1EEgwFUyQcdrz/w313-h31/no.jpg" width="313" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Investment in data and AI will be a key tool driving African health system improvements during and after the COVID-19 pandemic; African countries could be the fastest adopters due to lack of legacy systems, but have the most to lose if governments don’t invest now; a third of the adult population of Rwanda is already using a digital health consulting service, while an AI-enabled diagnostic mobile app first rolled out in Tanzania now has 800,000 downloads; t</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">he report uses current AI best practices to draw a roadmap that can help all countries advance towards AI maturity in health.</em></span><p></p><p class="yiv8669369659MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Low- and middle-income countries could soon leapfrog high-income countries in their adoption of new AI-enabled technologies in health, suggests a report led by the Novartis Foundation an</span><a href="www.NovartisFoundation.org" style="font-size: x-large;">d Microsoft</a><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Technologies such as mobile phone trading platforms, e-banking, e-commerce, and even blockchain applications have often been adopted faster and more comprehensively in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. Adoption of health technologies is likely to follow the same trend, with digital transformation accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the report “<a href="https://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/working-groups/AIinHealth_Report.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Reimagining Global Health through Artificial Intelligence: The Roadmap to AI Maturity</a>” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="background: yellow; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Reduced contact between patients and health providers due to social distancing has led to major growth in technologies such as AI-enabled diagnostics.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Millions more people have sought digital health care solutions – presenting a tremendous opportunity for countries to integrate data and AI into their health systems. For example, Rwanda is now arguably the most digitally connected health system in Africa, with its virtual consulting service surging past two million users – one-third of the adult population – in May 2020. [1]</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Many countries are ill-prepared to address a new emerging disease such as COVID-19 in addition to the existing burden of infectious diseases and the ever-increasing tide of chronic diseases. Digital technology and AI are essential enablers to re-engineer health systems from being reactive to proactive, predictive, and even preventive,” said Dr. Ann Aerts, head of the Novartis Foundation and co-chair of the Broadband Commission Working Group on Digital and AI in Health, which crafted the report. The Commission was established in 2010 by the International Telecommunication Union and UNESCO to expand broadband access as to accelerate progress towards national and international development targets.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“We have to develop a sustainable ecosystem for AI in health in the countries where it is most desperately needed,” Dr. Aerts said. “This has to happen while ensuring fairness and access for all. As health systems build back after the pandemic, technological innovation has to be a core part of the agenda.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Sub-Saharan Africa currently represents 12% of the global population but faces 25% of the world’s disease burden, while housing only 3% of the world’s health workers.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">A worldwide shortage of healthcare workers, which is particularly serious in many African countries, is predicted to reach 18 million by 2030. This boosts the case for investment in supportive AI tools, which can help nurses and community health workers diagnose and treat illnesses traditionally seen by doctors.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Sub-Saharan Africa has led the world in technology uptake before. “Here in Kenya, we have been a world leader in adoption of mobile banking, which has been picked up across Africa – there is no reason why this should not happen with health tech as well,” said Racey Muchilwa, Head of Novartis Sub-Saharan Africa. “As examples in the report make clear, Africa could do more to build access to medical expertise by rolling out AI-based support tools alongside healthcare programs.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">AI is boosting access and improving outcomes while also cutting costs by identifying potential health problems before they actually occur. “AI can have a big impact not just in lower-income countries, but across all health systems,” said Paul Mitchell of Microsoft, who co-chaired the Working Group. “It’s clear COVID-19 is driving massive change in the use of technology in health - we are seeing in a few months what I would have expected normally to take years, if not decades.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">AI is already changing the way health systems in developing countries work. In rural areas of Rwanda, one doctor may serve as many as 60,000 people. The government is working with a private sector partner, Babylon Health, to give every person aged over 12 access to digital health consultations. More than 30 percent of Rwanda’s adult population has signed up. The new partnership will also see the introduction of an AI-powered triage and symptom checker platform.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In India, hospitals are using AI to predict accurately a patient’s risk of a heart attack seven years before it might happen. Resources and medicine can then specifically target people at highest risk. In Malaysia, Brazil, and the Philippines, AI is being used to tackle multiple mosquito-borne diseases including dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. The program continuously pulls multidimensional data from over 90 public databases and adjusts for 276 variables that influence the spread of disease to predict when outbreaks are likely.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">UNICEF has developed an AI program to reduce the social and economic burden of outbreaks through targeted population health measures. Its Magic Box program both predicts when outbreaks are likely, and allows health systems to reorganize their resources, alert health workers and launch public health campaigns, so they can respond better and faster to emergencies.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Governments should identify and test innovative ways to finance AI in health solutions, the report says. To ensure financial accessibility in the long run for everyone, national reimbursement of digital and AI-enabled health services is key. Secure and privacy-preserving data governance needs to be part of ensuring a sustainable infrastructure.</div></span></span><p></p><div class="yiv8669369659MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><hr size="1" style="text-align: center;" width="100%" /></span></span></div><p class="yiv8669369659MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">References</span></strong></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">1. </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3h6xCHX" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3h6xCHX</a></div></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv8669369659MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Novartis.</span></span></i></p></div>

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Pato la Taifa latarajiwa kukuwa kwa asilimia 7-8% mwaka 2020.

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi701FIw6TihDt3X_kzsJOaSKPEtf7nagt1eZbfq2SIZq0sHoEu28gPv8S6iEliiqPtKc2-_VHBBNbNzXY9EhznxdZYkhGB_UhlKMZ_3ffyAa7y-EuoZiX21inrdRcRdd4fkIRZ60VfhQLm/s2000/012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi701FIw6TihDt3X_kzsJOaSKPEtf7nagt1eZbfq2SIZq0sHoEu28gPv8S6iEliiqPtKc2-_VHBBNbNzXY9EhznxdZYkhGB_UhlKMZ_3ffyAa7y-EuoZiX21inrdRcRdd4fkIRZ60VfhQLm/w400-h266/012.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "New serif";">Wakati Zanzibar na Tanzania kwa ujumla ikiwa tayari imeshaingia ndani ya Uchumi wa Kati mapema Mwaka huu hivi sasa inaendelea kuchanja mbuga katika kuimarisha Miradi ya Kiuchumi, Biashara na Maendeleo ili kuvuka salama katika Daraja hilo la Kiuchumi ndani ya miaka michache ijayo.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ujenzi wa miundombinu katika Sekta ya Kiuchumi hasa Miradi ya Biashara uliopamba moto katika pembe zote za Visiwa vya Unguja na Pemba ni ushahidi wa mabadiliko hayo yanayozidi kustawisha Maisha ya Wananchi kutokana na Pato la Taifa kutarajiwa kukuwa kwa kasi ya asilimia 7-8% mwaka 2020.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mtaa wa Michenzani uliosheheni Majengo ya Kisasa ya Biashara { Maarufu Michenzani Mall na Thabit Kombo Mall} yanayomalizika Ujenzi wake ndani ya Wiki mbili hizi yameanza kubadilisha haiba ya Mji wa Zanzibar unaoanza kufananishwa na baadhi ya Miji Maarufu Ulimwenguni.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi alishawishika kufanya ziara maalum ya kuangalia maendeleo ya ujenzi wa Majengo pacha hayo ya Biashara Michenzani  yanayotarajiwa kukamilika rasmi si Zaidi ya siku Kumi na Nne kuanzia sasa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akimtembeza Balozi Seif na Ujumbe wake katika maeneo mbali mbali ya Majengo hayo pacha Meneja Uwekezaji na Utafiti wa Mfuko wa Hifadhi ya Jamii Zanzibar {ZSSF} Nd. Abdulaziz Ibrahim Iddi alisema jengo kubwa la Michenzani lenye Ghorofa Tisa limesheheni huduma zote zinazostahiki kupatikana katika maeneo ya Biashara.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nd. Abdulaziz alizitaja huduma hizo kuwa ni pamoja na eneo la Maduka, Mkahawa, huduma za Kibenki, sehemu ya kuchezea Watoto, mazoezi, Sinema, Ukumbi wa Mikutano pamoja na Ofisi zitakazokodishwa kwa Wateja na Taasisi tofauti zitakazohitaji.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akizungumzia Jengo la Thabit Kombo Mall Meneja huyo wa Uwekezaji na Utafiti wa Mfuko wa Hifadhi ya Jamii Zanzibar alisema ZSSF imeshirikiana na Maskani ya Kisonge katika kuona Jengo hilo linakamilika kwa lengo la kutoa huduma za Kibiashara.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alisema eneo la Chini ya Jengo hilo watakabidhiwa Uongozi wa Kisonge kufuatia makubaliano yaliyofikiwa kwa vile Maskan hiyo ilikubali kutoa Jengo lake kwa kuridhia kupisha ujenzi wa Jengo hilo la Biashara, wakati sehemu nyengine za Biashara na Ofisi zitakodishwa kwa mujibu wa maombi ya Wafanyabiashara.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akitoa shukrani zake baada ya kuridhika na ujenzi wa majengo hayo mapya na ya kisasa, Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi alielezea faraja yake kutokana na mabadiliko makubwa ya Kisonge  yanayokwenda kwa kasi kubwa ya Maendeleo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Seif alisema Zanzibar kadri ya siku zinavyopotea inazidi kubadilika Kimaendeleo kutokana na harakati kubwa ya uimarikaji wa Miundombinu ya Kiuchumi inayobeba mfumo mmoja wa upatikanaji wa huduma  bila ya kujali maeneo ya Mijini au Vijijini.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar aliupongeza Uongozi na Watendaji wote wa Mfuko wa Hifadhi ya Jamii Zanzibar {ZSSF} kwa uamuzi wake wa kuendelea kushirikiana na Serikali Kuu katika kuimarisha Miradi ya Kiuchumi, Biashara na Maendeleo ya Ustawi wa Wananchi.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Seif  aliunasihi Uongozi utakaopewa jukumu la kusimamia Uendeshaji wa Majengo hayo ya Biashara Michenzani kuzingatia upangaji wa bei zitakazokidhi mahitaji ya wale watakaoonyesha nia ya kutaka kutoa huduma za Biashara katika eneo hilo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mapema Waziri wa Fedha na Mipango wa Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar Balozi Mohamed Ramia alisema hakuna ahadi iliyowekwa kwa Wafanyabiashara wa Makontena waliokuwa wakifanya Biashara eneo hilo lakini maombi yao yatazingatiwa na kupewa nafasi ya pekee.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hata hivyo Balozi Ramia alitanabahisha wazi kwamba Maduka mapya yaliyojengwa katika mfumo wa huduma za Kimataifa za Kisasa yatazingatia Zaidi muombaji atakayekidhi kiwango na kukubali kutimiza kanuni na taratibu zitakazowekwa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Waziri wa Fedha na Mipango alifahamisha kwamba eneo la Michenzani limeingizwa katika Mradi Maalum uliokusudiwa kuendelezwa na Serikali Kuu kwa kubadilisha umbo la Mji wa Zanzibar mradi unaokusudiwa kuanzia Mtaa wa Kariaboo kupitia Michenzani hadi Mtaa wa Mkunazini unaounganisha eneo la Mji Mkongwe uliomo ndani ya Hifadhi ya Uridhi wa Kimataifa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ujenzi wa Majengo pacha ya Kisasa ya Michenzani Kisonge { Michenzani Mall na Thabiti Kombo Mall chini ya usimamizi wa Wahandisi wa Kampuni ya Kimataifa ya China {CRJE} umeanza mnamo Mwezi Oktoba Mwaka 2018 na unatarajiwa kukamilika na kukabidhiwa Serikalini ndani ya Wiki Mbili zijazo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Othman Khamis Ame</span></span></p><p class="yiv6736597186MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="www.DjembeConsultants.com"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Djembe Consultants</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, the award-winning African-focused communications consultancy, has partnered with <a href="www.AfriLabs.com">AfriLabs</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="www.AfriLabs.com">,</a>  the largest pan-Africa network of 225 technology and innovation centres across 47 countries in Africa, to develop a report on the future of African innovation amidst a backdrop of a global pandemic. The Report is themed ‘Building a Resilient Innovative Africa’ in line with the focus of the 5</span><sup style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">th</sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">AfriLabs Virtual Annual Gathering from October 12 to 14, 2020, where highlights from the Report will be unveiled.</span></span></p><p class="yiv1966441350MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Report will cover trends and opportunities in technology and enterprise, the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the framing of a regional policy discussion around African innovation – crucial dialogues in the quest towards realizing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the region wide socio-economic objectives set out in the African Union Agenda 2063 in the post-COVID economy. The three report themes are Scaling Homegrown Innovations Beyond Borders; Driving Innovation Inclusivity – Women, Youth, and Informal Markets; and Strengthening Policy Development to Encourage R&D and Innovation. The Report will bring together powerful perspectives on what it takes to build innovation resilience in Africa across sectors such as agriculture, energy, health, ICT, and manufacturing, as well as other equally fundamental sectors such as education, finance, and services.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><strong style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Djembe Consultants, CEO, Mitchell Prather</strong> said, “Djembe Consultants is pleased to partner with Africa’s largest network of technology and innovation hubs to elevate the dialogue around strengthening African innovation resilience in these unprecedented times. As Official Communications Partner of the AfriLabs annual gathering this year, Djembe looks forward to unveiling important insights based on the real-world opinions, experiences, and attitudes of African innovation stakeholders from across the continent. The Insights Report will provide a range of stakeholders, from investors to policymakers, with a uniquely relevant and timely understanding of the opportunities and challenges that African innovators face as we learn to move forward in the new normal of a COVID world.”</div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Leveraging the innovation DNA of both organizations, the Building a Resilient Innovative Africa Report will feature the perspectives of young African startups and innovators alongside valuable insights from leading public and private sector stakeholders from the continent and beyond including Afreximbank, Honoris United Universities, Mastercard Foundation, Mozilla and the UN Women, amongst others. If you’re an African startup, innovator or entrepreneur, share your perspectives on what it takes to build resilience in the African Innovation Ecosystem by <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7BRG9BY" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">participating in the survey here</a>.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Commenting on the report, <strong>Nekesa Were, Director of Strategy, AfriLabs</strong> “AfriLabs is excited to have Africa’s leading communications consultancy, Djembe Consultants, on board as a partner for this year’s AfriLabs Virtual Annual Gathering. This year’s Annual Gathering will see a robust dialogue on how to build a resilient innovative Africa.  Given COVID-19’s economic impact on our network members, the dialogue around strengthening the innovation ecosystem is so critical for when Africa emerges from this global pandemic.”</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Previously held in several cities across Africa, this year’s edition of the <a href="https://bit.ly/AfriLabsAG2020" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2020</a> will be virtual with conversations centred around building a resilient innovative Africa by leveraging collaborations, communities and Africa’s innate ability to build. The roles of innovators, corporates, governments and other stakeholders will be examined with discussions on the need to disrupt the status quo, and force innovations to evolve and adapt to the new realities of an Africa in a recovering world. The 3-day Gathering will feature sessions and activities with focused panel discussions on thematic topics, keynote addresses, presentation sessions, multiple parallel workshops, local ecosystem tours/exhibitions, and networking sessions. <a href="https://bit.ly/AfriLabsAG2020" rel="nofollow" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Registration</a>  is currently ongoing.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">As part of the ongoing partnership, Djembe Consultants will be conducting customised training workshops for AfriLabs community members and partner hubs across the continent. Follow Djembe Consultants on social media for further updates.</div></span></span><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv1966441350MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Djembe Consultants.</span></span></i></p></div>

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Transform your Canon camera into a high-quality webcam with EOS Webcam Utility Software

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsAHaLm8JxzLaWcZXWqTBHV9QDMvbyVjta4pASISvIsAaZv8K5iyUinqTcHmDaMQPCHkL8oLRsh0oz0yMPiXu-KsPVAefu7Dt4DQZP8AydGT5SrNMACDYw-XpZgCuTXCBuF6HZnarmBM3h/s250/canon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="132" data-original-width="250" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsAHaLm8JxzLaWcZXWqTBHV9QDMvbyVjta4pASISvIsAaZv8K5iyUinqTcHmDaMQPCHkL8oLRsh0oz0yMPiXu-KsPVAefu7Dt4DQZP8AydGT5SrNMACDYw-XpZgCuTXCBuF6HZnarmBM3h/w313-h165/canon.png" width="313" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Canon Central and North Africa (<a href="www.Canon-CNA.com">CCNA</a>) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> announces the launch of EOS Webcam Utility, a free to download software that allows users to connect their compatible Canon DSLR and PowerShot camera to a Mac or PC computer, where it will be recognised as a USB webcam. Eliminating the need for additional equipment, the EOS Web Utility Software will enable users to replace their existing webcam and experience high-quality virtual meetings and video conferencing through their Canon camera.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">With businesses seeking new ways to improve their employees video conferencing experience, Canon’s EOS Webcam Utility solution addresses the soaring demand for web cameras during lockdown, with just a USB connection and a compatible Canon camera [1]. This simple to use, free software can be downloaded from the Canon website and configured in minutes with a video conferencing application. The software, currently supported by Windows, will also be compatible with MacOS operating system [2] catering to a broad range of workflows.</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Leading the way, this software brings Canon’s heritage for optical excellence and innovation to users, helping them achieve high-quality image quality during important video conferencing for the most professional set-up. With the impeccable sensor technology across Canon’s EOS and PowerShot line-up, users will notice an immediate improvement to the low-light performance, colour and depth-of-field, compared with traditional web cameras. The EOS Webcam Utility software will ensure work colleagues are viewed in crisp and true to life colour. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Amine Djouahra, Sales and Marketing Director at Canon Central and North Africa</strong> says, <em>“We have a commitment to our customers around the world to provide the best in technical excellence and innovations, though our cameras, lenses, accessories and software. During these unprecedented times, Canon is harnessing the power of EOS technology to bring people together and provide a high-performance solution our customers can trust.”</em></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Key features:</strong></div></strong></span><p></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Free software</span></span></li><li class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Compatible and full support with Windows, with MacOS support to follow</span></span></li><li class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Improves image quality for virtual calls</span></span></li><li class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Better low-light performance, improved colour and depth-of-field</span></span></li></ul><p class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Bundle kits available to purchase from Canon’s E-commerce store:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III Compact Video Conferencing Kit</span></span></li><li class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Canon EOS M50 Interchangeable Lens Video Conferencing Kit</span></span></li><li class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Canon EOS M6 Mark II Interchangeable Video Conferencing Kit</span></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-top: 11.25pt;"><p class="yiv2089053334MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Canon Central and North Africa (CCNA).</span></span></i></p></div>

Transform your Canon camera into a high-quality webcam with EOS Webcam Utility Software

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Basra Textile Milles yamwagiwa sifa kede kede

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkD1jB2bezSspssHV6nxs0Or0cm9A6g12IxJk5Y2JeSmY0LddVMgTaXxIoOi-Y2xF_JWvbUitqr1hQ1wPH8DS55x8w1Wqxjq60Brp7UujtZcM9w0NWkMTAZz-ucSDGurmuMg8GYm2VWoI3/s2000/285.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkD1jB2bezSspssHV6nxs0Or0cm9A6g12IxJk5Y2JeSmY0LddVMgTaXxIoOi-Y2xF_JWvbUitqr1hQ1wPH8DS55x8w1Wqxjq60Brp7UujtZcM9w0NWkMTAZz-ucSDGurmuMg8GYm2VWoI3/w400-h266/285.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "New serif";">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi ameipongeza Kampuni ya Uwekezaji ya Basra Textile Milles kwa kazi kubwa ya kukifufua upya Kiwanda cha nguo cha Cotex kilichopo Mtaa wa Chumbuni inayokweda sambamba na azma ya Serikali ya kuimaisha Sekta ya Viwanda Nchini.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akifanya ziara fupi ya kukagua maendeleo ya uimarishaji wa miundombinu ya Kiwanda hicho inayotarajiwa kukamilika mwezi Oktoba mwaka huu kwa Awamu ya kwanza Balozi Seif alisema hiyo ni kazi nzuri ambayo faida itakayopatikana itasaidia  sio kwa wawekezaji bali kwa Taifa na Vijana katika suala la ajira.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alisema kiwanda cha Cotex kwa miaka mingi kimekuwa eneo la magofu lililokuwa likilalamikiwa na Wananchi kwa kutoendelezwa licha ya Serikali Kuu Kiwanda hicho kumpa Muwekezaji aliyeshindwa kukiendeleza kwa Zaidi ya Miaka 25 iliyopita nyuma.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Seif alisema nia thabiti ya Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar ni kuwashawishi Wawekezaji wa ndani na nje ya Nchi kuanzisha miradi ya Kiuchumi itakayosaidia kutoa ajira kwa kundi kubwa la Vijana sambamba na kuongeza Mapato ya Taifa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Aliushauri Uongozi huo wa Kampuni ya Uwekezeaji wa Basra Textile Milles kujitahidi kuzalisha bidhaa zenye kukidhi viwango vya masoko ya Kitaifa na Kimataifa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar aliuhakikishia Uongozi huo kwamba Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar iko tayari kuendelea kutoa msukumo ili kuona malengo ya kuanzishwa Mradi huo kwa vile yanawagusa Wananchi moja kwa moja yaweze kufanikiwa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mapema akimtembeza Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi katika maeneo mbali mbali ya Kiwanda hicho Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Kiwanda hicho Bwana Ahmed Osman Osman alisema harakati zinazoendelea hivi sasa ni ufungwaji wa mashine ili kukamilisha Awamu ya Kwanza.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bwana Osman alisema majaribio ya kwanza wa uzalishaji wa Kiwanda hicho unatarajiwa kuanza rasmi Mwezi Oktoba mwaka huu kwa hatua za uzalishaji wa Vitenge, Vitambaa vya sare za Skuli, Mashuka ya Vitanda vya Majumbani na hata Mahotelini.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alisema hatua hiyo ya awamu ya kwanza itawezesha bidhaa zitakazozalishwa mbali ya kutumika Nchini lakini pia mpango umeshatayarishwa wa nyengine kuuzwa katika Mataifa ya Magharibi mwa Bara la Afrika.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Naye kwa upande wake Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Basra Textile Milles Bwana Said Hassan alimueleza Balozi Seif kwamba Awamu ya kwanza iliyochukuwa gharama za Dola za Kimarekani Milioni 21.3 itawezesha kutoa ajira 454 za Wafanyakazina  Awamu ya Pili Wafanyakazi 1,200.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bwana Said Hassan alisema Awamu ya Tatu itakayotoa ajira 1,600 itakwenda sambamba na ununuzi wa zao la Pamba kutoka Tanzania bara ili kuimarisha uwezo wa Wakulima Wazalendo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alifahamisha kwamba yapomatumaini makubwa ya ubora wa mashine zilizopo kuzalisha bidhaa za kiwango cha juu kwa asilimia 90% kitakachosafirishwa katika masoko ya Nchi za Umoja wa Ulaya na Marekani.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akitoa shukrani katika ziara hiyo Waziri wa Fedha na Mipango wa Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar Balozi Mohamed Ramia aliuhakikishia Uongozi wa Kiwanda hicho kwamba Serikali kupitia Wizara hiyo inazingatia kuzipatia ufumbuzi changamoto ndogo ndogo zilizojitokeza wakati wa harakati za uimarishaji wa Kiwanda hicho.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Ramia alisema Kiwandi hicho kilichoanza kuwa tegemeo kubwa la ajira kwa kundi la Vijana ni eneo muhimu litaloleta faida kwa Wananchi wa Visiwa vya Zanzibar.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Waziri wa Fedha alielezea matumaini yake kwamba wale wafanyakazi Wahandisi waliomo ndani ya Taasisi za Serikali wakati umefika wa kutumia Taaluma yao katika Sekta ya Viwanda inayozidi kuimarishwa hapa Nchini.</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Khamis Ame</span></span></p><p class="yiv8429871942MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></span></p>

Basra Textile Milles yamwagiwa sifa kede kede

  Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi ameipongeza Kampuni ya Uwekezaji ya Basra Textile Milles kwa kazi kubwa ya kukifuf...

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SMZ yapania kuleta mabadiliko katika ujenzi wa nyumba za kisasa

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMD23bx_KILJBHcyCCbUCXENrsZTMWUPSXrXIeaY2oiaD9A_F3xWHaVZBD4vvdHPzyvTHUyK_XIeddTxDthQSGU0xPOFsHdADOfiw229X-RhsLOnCGTlaRNOJ3wf70iz5xpeHolbwYnCdY/s2000/569.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMD23bx_KILJBHcyCCbUCXENrsZTMWUPSXrXIeaY2oiaD9A_F3xWHaVZBD4vvdHPzyvTHUyK_XIeddTxDthQSGU0xPOFsHdADOfiw229X-RhsLOnCGTlaRNOJ3wf70iz5xpeHolbwYnCdY/w400-h266/569.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "New serif";">Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar imejizatiti kuimarisha Makaazi bora ya Wananchi wake kwa ujenzi wa Nyumba za Kisasa ili kwenda sambamba na Falsafa ya Chama cha Afro Shirazy Party ya kuhakikisha ustawi wa Jamii unakuwa katika kiwango kinachokwenda na wakati.</span></span><p></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar Balozi Seif Ali Iddi alitoa kauli hiyo mara baada ya kukagua maendeleo ya Mradi wa ujenzi wa Nyumba za Kisasa katika Mtaa wa Kwahani zitakazostawisha Maisha bora ya Wananchi wa eneo hilo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Seif alisema fikra za Rais wa Zanzibar na Mwenyekiti wa Baraza la Mapinduzi Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein katika kuona Maendeleo ya Makaazi ya Wananchi yanaimarika yamezingatia mawazo ya Rais wa kwanza wa Zanzibar Marehemu Mzee Abeid Amani Karume.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alisema jitihada hizo za Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar zinaonyesha wazi kwamba maeneo yote ya Zanzibar Mijini na Vijijini kwa sasa yanakaribia kuwa na fursa na huduma zote muhimu zinazostahiki kuzipata Mwanaadam hali inayoonyesha kupungua kwa mitaa ya ng’ambo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar aliwahakikishia Wananchi kwamba Nyumba zinazojengwa Mtaa wa Kwahani zimelengwa kupewa Wananchi waliovunjiwa nyumba zao katika maeneo hayo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“ Nyumba hizo hatopewa Mtu mwengine Zaidi ya Wakaazi wa Kwahani na vizuri kwamba kumbukumbu zao zote zimehifadhiwa Serikalini na wala hazipangishwi kama baadhi ya Watu wanavyofikiria”. Alisisitiza Balozi Seif.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alielezea faraja yake na inapendeza kuona kwamba Wahandisi pamoja n Washauri Elekezi wanaosimamia miradi mbali mbali ya Miundombinu ya Ujenzi hapa nchini inaendeshwa na Wazalendo wenye bila ya ushiriki wa wataalamu wa kigeni.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Akitoa Taarifa ya Mradi wa Ujenzi wa Nyumba hizo za Kwahani Mshauri Elekezi wa Ujenzi huo Mhandisi Andrian Eradius ujenzi huo unaendelea kwa Mabloki Matatu yanayokadiriwa kuwa na uwezo wa kuhudumia Familia 70 pamoja na sehemu za Maduka kwa Wale Wananchi waliokuwa na miradi katika eneo hilo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mhandisi Adrian alisema harakati za ujenzi wa majengo hayo hivi sasa ziko asilimia 98% kwa Bloki C, Asilimia 95% Bloki B na lile Bloki A kazi zinaendelea kwa hatua ya uwezekaji paa.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mshauri Muelekezi huyo wa Mradi wa Nyumba za Kwahani aliishukuru Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar kupitia Waziri wa Fedha na Mipango kwa jitihada ilizochukuwa za kuwapatia ushirikiano hasa kaika changamoto iliyojitokeza na uhaba wa Mchanga katika kuendeleza kwa wakati Ujenzi huo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alisema Mradi huo ulipangwa kukabidhiwa Serikalini Mwezi huu lakini kutokana na sababu za kuibuka kwa maradhi yanayosababisha homa kali ya mafua {Corona} mradi huo sasa unatarajiwa kumalizika mwishoni mwa Mwezi wa Septemba Mwaka huu.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mapema Waziri wa Fedha na Mipango wa Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar Balozi Mohamed Ramia alisema Wananchi wa Mtaa wa Kwahani ndio walengwa watakaofadikiwa na mradi huo na haitapendeza kuja kuona ndani ya kipindi cha Miezi sita makaazi hayo yanakaliwa na Watu wa nje ya Mtaa huo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Balozi Ramia alisema Majengo hayo yatakapokamilika yatakuwa na uwezo wa kuhudumia Familia Sabini ingawa zilizopo kwenye kumbukumbu ni Familia 40. Hivyo zile nyumba zitakazobakia zitawahudumia wale Wananchi watakaovunjiwa katika Awamu ya Pili na Tatu ya Mradi huo.</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Othman Khamis Ame</span></span></p><p class="yiv6845071218MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ofisi ya Makamu wa Pili wa Rais wa Zanzibar</span></span></p>

SMZ yapania kuleta mabadiliko katika ujenzi wa nyumba za kisasa

  Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar imejizatiti kuimarisha Makaazi bora ya Wananchi wake kwa ujenzi wa Nyumba za Kisasa ili kwenda sambamba ...

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What East Africa can teach the rest of the continent about economic growth

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifP4lqK6P6Ch_zexhHUNQto54L-AgKeGCiy3TqBY-EZvo1xF6NiDms5fMkiz56b-bLsYr2NsKXCrSA09LqObI3585XnmZMSiyLwvTQ29EGM7_Pq3NCCPyEo80pXtHU8KxgEHcl1GHsO4VD/s1200/sap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1182" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifP4lqK6P6Ch_zexhHUNQto54L-AgKeGCiy3TqBY-EZvo1xF6NiDms5fMkiz56b-bLsYr2NsKXCrSA09LqObI3585XnmZMSiyLwvTQ29EGM7_Pq3NCCPyEo80pXtHU8KxgEHcl1GHsO4VD/s320/sap.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><em>By Pedro Guerreiro, Managing Director for Central Africa at SAP</em></strong></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The 21st century is widely touted as the 'African Century', a period promising unprecedented economic and technological growth for the continent. Africa's future looks bright.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The continent features <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6Tcb-CbTUu1heIysrXv1hVsX7_wjL94EEAaRpopdtmLemygV4WhfFOMU3y9xW8XY5S9Ycfmb-IwpetPS7Ni1r0VkWEr7hKKNfJqo3BUZi_XEKj6cTFe-UxVJOqWjsJ_mMsG1yCcOPOfZOBUKlK8Wk3zvZnP_OxUNdTiTQjhyUmp8vbsK6l1AySzJgDshv0craEf&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">five of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world</a>. Its population is the most youthful, with <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6TcyPKpn3dcK4otLXXwaqe_3g0UtSbczJp6a5JioS74vsOgLT1yQ_8q6sTpP8nzT40eWtFcRLxzQchHkI62Uav657gU2eAwFRA_Nk_5XSoEBYnFK8lsyn5Lsi-vHc0aiskJng0L0z_3pguh9q3m5AIB5kVEW8DthaMLjY6fg_KzaDS4AAt6d2PS40-5c3NVqh8gs0Cz4vH-NiI=&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">60% of all African citizens under the age of 25</a>. And the world's largest free trade area in terms of participating countries, the African Continental Free Trade Area, is now active and <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6TcmEDNQvwIJBqIyZ_CRgmjvXGqLUWG7uX03ZxILI46UJGsS8bqKhc0FPu-H8MjDnddoFr0PgwfMy6ZmqOuSn2m5JdF3UB-r0Me0weNhwE1nOV3BGJTLHzcvTP6JKW2ZTOgu-NaqQJYrd9ohIlepW5jeJsvVyIQjkDCRsCO8O3imsglhaPgShVT5td1rZBFvAFPdTC_JraUyjDDSp4EzcjeQzybT7g_Mgey&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">expected to boost intra-African trade by as much as 52% by 2022</a>.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">With Africa's fortunes continuing to improve, one region stands out as a possible example to the rest of the continent. As the world starts its slow recovery from a year of constant disruption and immense challenges, a closer look at the continued economic success story of the East African region could hold inspiration for how the rest of the continent drives economic growth.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>One of the world's fastest-growing regions</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6Tc6ne5vH6W6OPx8XOzN5NtdJgeMXlhJXx8vJ_sk9CNkfXK3hj469aUVGwPQZEgwJTUTHsRTlaxQFmRnwHvw0z4BkU3saH9Cq-eP8e5cZpv4dmfKwOTteQYBluF6D4-Ar9KPuy-14Z26lvD7GZxUrAeo-LMSLexHESa6AYy8Cl-9URd52OXHfKkWbyMrwnIAnaY&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Two of the five fastest-growing economies</a> in the world are in East Africa: Ethiopa (2) and Rwanda (4). According to the Brookings Institute, East Africa's share of the continent's economic growth rose from less than 20% in 2018 <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6Tcv3-3SZ_izIw-E_ML57tV57pK7L3V4UeYvMHzGldGVCn54v3gnp2nqYHWS_1AOMGlYE9kKTizSFtZw1LbnY0IVV_zB5k09wLODGSy2xqGxn29bmtWaO19vSwOD2Z4rfwXfKSHx989OtqGDz8DbYwsCHErLBKkGQcBamn_PIbkALCHtLTo779D0S3wGFXuZ8Gw3mNkfTXh3t6KssNRJfI_s4t4NPs9OVxgWIJHpDgpnn75Ot14bTkCOsO21zV5tpZxXvZrIeD3TpmcSS2Q1AAdohBcRD0x48K3&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">to more than 32% in 2019</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In contrast, GDP growth in Southern Africa actually declined, thanks mostly to the decline in growth in South Africa. The impact of 2020's events are predicted to worsen the situation, with an estimated 7.2% contraction in GDP expected in South Africa - the worst in nearly 90 years.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite the disruptive events of 2020, the African Development Bank found that East Africa is holding its ground as the continent's fastest-growing region. This at a time when many countries - emerging and developed economies alike - face record declines in economic growth.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">What are the region's keys to success? Its attempts at building a vibrant services sector, its coordinated state-supported industrial growth efforts, and a renewed focus on education reform with an emphasis on fostering digital skills all hold valuable lessons for the rest of the continent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Building a vibrant services sector</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">According to data by the African Development Bank, agriculture's contribution to East Africa's gross domestic product <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6Tcv3-3SZ_izIw-E_ML57tV57pK7L3V4UeYvMHzGldGVCn54v3gnp2nqYHWS_1AOMGlYE9kKTizSFtZw1LbnY0IVV_zB5k09wLODGSy2xqGxn29bmtWaO19vSwOD2Z4rfwXfKSHx989OtqGDz8DbYwsCHErLBKkGQcBamn_PIbkALCHtLTo779D0S3wGFXuZ8Gw3mNkfTXh3t6KssNRJfI_s4t4NPs9OVxgWIJHpDgpnn75Ot14bTkCOsO21zV5tpZxXvZrIeD3TpmcSS2Q1AAdohBcRD0x48K3&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">declined from 33.4% in the early 2000s to only 28.3% in 2018.</a> Rising in its place is a vibrant and fast-growing services sector that contributes more than half (53.8%) of the region's GDP.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">This economic shift is creating new employment opportunities. Based on data by the International Labour Organisation, the number of employment opportunities in the region's services sector is set to more than double between 2000 and 2020, while opportunities in the agriculture sector will grow at a slower pace.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Digital transformation is one of the main drivers of growth in the services sector. In fact, the World Bank estimates that connecting every African business, individual and government to digital technologies by 2030 <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6TcFX0H7Z_DSfBfIoL5Nkb3TuPfmfhU-STs6AbaeGJ483OcYa77V_rnIc1EbRNxRb7r1sz6_Rg9Bgt4egsVJHZwZXF-SfHFDu7fsgopB2qH9zHWkDdwpAzLDatsZQC7FODBYDSD9u7Ig90=&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">can boost growth by up to 2% per year, and reduce poverty by 1% per year</a>.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Concerted industrial revival</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In 2012, the East African Community (EAC), which covers Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, launched its 2012-2032 Industrialisation Policy. The strategy aims to create a market-driven, competitive and balanced industrial sector that draws on the advantages of the EAC region.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The aim is to grow the contribution of manufacturing to the region's GDP from an estimated 8.9% currently to 25% by 2032.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">However, the contribution of the industrial sector to regional GDP growth has stalled in all EAC countries with the exception of Tanzania. In a report in 2019, the East Africa Development Bank (EADB) noted insufficient investment in industrial transformation as a main reason for the decreasing contribution of industry to GDP growth.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the EADB, other countries wishing to drive greater industrialisation should improve regional infrastructure (such as roads, rail networks, energy and communications), establish special economic zones with compelling incentives, and greater investment in human capital development to ensure ready access to key skills.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Education reform for 21st century skills</strong></div></strong><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Since 2000, <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6Tcslv10XaD3_XFjbKDouLyfpiVQXsmRlVvHTkX9awm_kpibET3Gjjl-8-a9W4R4MbsZh7-fDfpw3HG7iTYzcGLZHtGDgeNuAeEkJsmrJDYVTB_mf1_1BZh-7RvbWyty2alK8k1W2VGjmAOZa_YOb9KwuqyetVHIz_HoywHBcPAYFMv7aO_JszWSoqJBZK6SmLN&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">the number of African kids attending primary school grew from 60 million to 150 million</a>, with a vanishing gender gap that now sees nearly as many girls attend school as boys.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Human capital development is a core component of accelerating the development efforts of emerging economies. Data shows that significant and ongoing investment in human capital development has direct benefits to GDP growth, with the Gates Foundation finding that <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6Tcslv10XaD3_XFjbKDouLyfpiVQXsmRlVvHTkX9awm_kpibET3Gjjl-8-a9W4R4MbsZh7-fDfpw3HG7iTYzcGLZHtGDgeNuAeEkJsmrJDYVTB_mf1_1BZh-7RvbWyty2alK8k1W2VGjmAOZa_YOb9KwuqyetVHIz_HoywHBcPAYFMv7aO_JszWSoqJBZK6SmLN&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">every additional year of schooling boosts individual income by as much as 8%</a>.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Kenya and Tanzania are notable for their efforts to drive education reform and expand access to schooling for more children. In Kenya, the number of people with primary education <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6TcS_PaxDTd-9lIFJgbfQpaELtzXmmMV-bSd-eS2ttxdZuXoxqx4_VVY7L_vL1PovdFCd_WkKaLmx752Vb7561uR2g1nWAVicZcOS_bfYbjCND8IasIEjdbAuzgeOnq0t9KpKlEIwBmQqVGXd17oOnyEBWJqz1H1S40pg_3RFeGgDhZTxfTTj1WwzINSyWwDh6VMZARGx8Xk0GrZHzWk9KFREipUF8O9XV-jj5OPybp8_NlsdL2xBUIjw==&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">is expected to increase by 25% by 2030</a>, with the number of people who have completed secondary or tertiary education growing by 60% over the next decade.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In Tanzania, it is estimated that six out of seven people will have completed some form of education by 2030. However, there is much work still to be done: by 2030, <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRsR14g9Gp6TcS_PaxDTd-9lIFJgbfQpaELtzXmmMV-bSd-eS2ttxdZuXoxqx4_VVY7L_vL1PovdFCd_WkKaLmx752Vb7561uR2g1nWAVicZcOS_bfYbjCND8IasIEjdbAuzgeOnq0t9KpKlEIwBmQqVGXd17oOnyEBWJqz1H1S40pg_3RFeGgDhZTxfTTj1WwzINSyWwDh6VMZARGx8Xk0GrZHzWk9KFREipUF8O9XV-jj5OPybp8_NlsdL2xBUIjw==&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">only 12% of Tanzanians are expected to have completed secondary or tertiary education</a>.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, the private sector has an important role to play in supporting human capital development. Initiatives such as <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRuhWY0yoe1nVLnKNYqEdd0asR8nymBc2mvwpFoqhIEiLcO3mHTU3tBk64T-6OrXsRf5iNYvAvKbuKC3Thrhy6l8ucqiTPOZca60502kRok_AgvKqUvNLPZs1YVtVC-nORQ==&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">Africa Code Week</a> supplement government curricula by providing easy access to digital training and education tools and resources, driving greater awareness of 21st century skills among students and teachers alike. In addition, SAP Skills for Africa provides tailored training to talented graduates to develop work-ready technical and soft skills that can immediately make an impact in the workplace.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">I am a firm believer in Africa's potential as a world-leading region for economic growth and innovation. Already, there are several pockets of excellence that the rest of the continent can learn from. It is our task to build on these successes and ensure we realise the dream of an African Century.</div></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: New;"><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Distributed by </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001GTTx_hl_lu6DbL5ylYGM9TZPS0l_kdT5WDgKQgfKNjfv2pX-XcCVRv3xTZBXdReK4JYdJ_X42xtLantXfmig741BhKsgtyt7j6r1D-SH9G4sGUOtDg-Oe9EZjQEEcm73QyrH2JBiJvk0bT-ulscMDxjNKsyanpD-kJ05t7cWWOJ3L5g6edgDfMQ9B-iGEMiB&c=c9QmMgmiGK168DkMwwyJH__AcDOZzqFf9JxUnBzLwB12bKaLOP1VCw==&ch=BSGGVeRCDz_D31fK8rdJlhutk77YJJu4wd9BbeIlhU6TuTiwKYKhNA==" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #196ad4; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">African Media Agency (AMA)</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on behalf of SAP Africa.</span></em></div></span></span>

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