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You Are Here: Home » Investment , Lead Story » Africa does not need irresponsible investments – Ezekwesili Page last updated at Monday, May 30, 2011 11:11 AM // Obiagele Ezewesili - World Bank Vice President for Africa Region The World Bank has sent a strong notice to foreign investors who want to invest in Africa saying that the continent does not need irresponsible investments. In a speech delivered as part of celebrations to mark the African Union Day, the World Bank Vice President for the Africa Region, Obiageli Ezekwesili told investors and African ambassadors in Washington DC that even though Africa is open for business, it is not open to just any business. “Africa does not need the irresponsible investments that have for many decades unleashed corruption and degrading conditions upon those they claim to serve”, Ezekwesili said.

Angola Press Agency (Luanda)

13 June 2011

Luanda — Angolan minister of Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technologies, José Carvalho da Rocha, Monday here said that the new White Book and the current standardisation framework of the sector ensure services of quality, affordable prices, capable to contribute to consolidation of State, reinforcement of national unity and reduction of disparities.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of workshop intended to present the White Book and the New Standardisation Framework of ICT sector”, the minister added that the reform also aims at making the legislative framework in force more flexible, taking into account the changes resulting in convergence of technologies and services.

“We live a new page in the sector of Information and Communication Technologies marked by the approval of the White Book of ICTs and the new legislative package of the sector by the Government and National Assembly”, underlined the official.

According to the minister, the government also intends to combine its actions with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to which all Nations have been committed.

The While Book defines, among other tasks of the State, the construction of infrastructures of basic network of telecommunication, the assurance of universal service, understood as the materialisation of inalienable right of all citizens to benefit from the services of telecommunications, wherever they are.

The conference gathered vice-ministers of the sector for Telecommunications and for technologies of information, respectively Aristides Safecas and Pedro Teta, among other government officials and the sector’s technicians.

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