* KENYA has seen remarkable growth in the telecommunication services during the past few years and its mobile market is poised for amazing growth, according to African Mobile Market Forecast to 2013.
* GHANA is going to start commercial oil production next month. The West african country will use crude revenues to transform its economy, aiming to avoid the pitfalls of nations finding new resources, Finance Minister Kwabena Duffuor said Thursday.
* (MEDICINALGIGANTEN) GlaxoSmithKline is to discount its pneumonia vaccine (mod lungebetændelse) for private customers in Africa after claims from a medical charity that it is profiteering by charging western prices.
* The UK government will launch two new public-private partnership funds to promote generation of renewable energy in Africa and Asia next year, Secretary of State for International Development (udviklings-minister) Andrew Mitchell said on Thursday.
* CHINAs exports to Japan of rare earths (strategisk sjældne jordarter) could resume next week, Japan’s Trade Minister Akihiro Ohata said.
* The PHILIPPINE government Thursday unveiled ten infrastructure projects that require around 3,2 billion US dollar in investments, while assuring investors of protection against regulatory risks, a consistent investment policy, funding assistance and transparency.
* EISAI will become the first Japanese pharmaceutical company to supply medication for free to the World Health Organization to help treat the tropical disease lymphatic filariasis (infektion med små rundorme).
* The GLOBAL FUND and the Burmese Ministry of Health have signed a memorandum of understanding on the Global Fund’s financial aid to Burma for fighting three diseases – HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
* WORLD Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy has invited its 153 member delegations to a meeting on November 30, seeking to build on calls this month by the G20 and APEC summits to finish the ever on-going Doha round of global trade talks.
* UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon kicked off a new initiative Thurs-day, titled the UN Academic Impact (UNAI), which partners institutions of higher education with the UN in order to generate innovative ideas for peace and development.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
