The price of OPEC basket of eleven crudes stood at 68.30 dollars a barrel on Wednesday, 29/8/07, compared with 68.19 dollars the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations. OPEC Member Countries have embarked upon substantial investments, both upstream and downstream, to ensure that the world economy benefits from regular and secure oil supplies. OPEC Crude oil production capacity (excluding Iraq) is projected to increase to around 36.9 mb/d by 2010 from 31.7 mb/d in 2005. In addition, Iraq’s recovery should contribute significantly to raising OPEC’s overall production capacity. Similarly, production capacity of Liquified Natural Gas and other liquids will be expanded by around 2 mb/d to reach 6 mb/d by 2010.
Cameroonian international striker Samuel Eto'o has sustained injury that will put him out of action for at least two months. Eto'o suffered a partial tear of a tendon in his right thigh. Cameroon's 26-year-old goal-poacher suffered the injury just two minutes after coming on as a substitute in Wednesday's 5-0 victory over Italian champions Inter Milan in the Gamper Trophy at the Nou Camp in Barcelona. The news from the doctors came as a blow to Eto'o and the team management of Barcelona, amidst speculations that Chelsea is launching a financial snatching bid for Brazilian Ronaldinho. Eto'o was expected to feature in coach Frank Rijkaard's new game plan for the 2007/2008 season.
Shares in MTN, Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest cell phone operator, gained over 3 percent on Thursday, a day after the group said first-half earnings rose 75 percent and subscribers rose 20 percent. MTN said earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) increased to 15.2 billion rand ($2.12 billion) while adjusted headline earnings per share for the six months to end-June rose to 324.7 cents, just above a Reuters forecast of eight analysts of 320 cents.
It was a chilling moment on a split-screen of history. While the Senate debated the Iraq war on Tuesday night, a long-dead senator again renounced a chronic lie about congressional options and presidential power. The Senate was in the final hours of another failure to impede the momentum of war. As the New York Times was to report, President Bush "essentially won the added time he said he needed to demonstrate that his troop buildup was succeeding." Meanwhile, inside a movie theater on the opposite coast, the thunderous voice of Senator Wayne Morse spoke to 140 people at an event organized by the activist group Sacramento for Democracy. The extraordinary senator was speaking in May 1964 -- and in July 2007. A typical dash of media conventional wisdom had set him off. The moderator of the CBS program "Face the Nation," journalist Peter Lisagor, told the guest: "Senator, the Constitution gives to the president of the United States the sole responsibility for the conduct of foreign policy."
Last night, I had dinner with a businessman, Paul, in Fort Myers, Florida..."We were driving down this back street," said Paul. "There was only one house on the block. And that was the house we were looking for..."Paul loves buying cheap houses from distressed sellers. He studies the county records every day, looking for people who can't afford their mortgage payments. When he finds one, he drives out to the house and offers the owners an escape route: Sell their house to him.
By Dr. Sloans K. Chimatiro, NEPAD Senior Fisheries Advisor
While other parts of the world have harnessed scientific and technological advances to improve their fisheries and aquaculture production, Africa still lags behind due to general lack of capacity. Forty-two percent of the African research institutions are weak in fisheries and aquaculture, according to the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). This leads to a lack of common and strategic understanding of the challenges being faced by the sector and the importance of fisheries and aquaculture research for development.
La semaine qui a commencé le lundi 20 août dernier est décidément singulière. Après un communiqué conjoint des ambassadeurs des Etats-Unis, de pays bas et du haut commissariat de Grande Bretagne au Cameroun. La réaction du gouvernement n’a pas tardé. Rarement, on a vu un ministre en charge des affaires étrangères camerounaises démentir les chancelleries occidentales de la trame des Etats-Unis. C’est que dans ce pays, la communication des institutions publiques est quasi absente. Lorsqu’elle est à l’ordre du jour, il s’agit toujours de protéger le système politique en place qui, disons-le, n’aime pas la contradiction, encore moins le débat.
Mr Fowang Lawrence takes over from Mr Leku Francis Azeneku as Provincial Delegate for Agriculture and Rural Development for the Southwest province of Cameroon. Described as an old hand in the field, Mr. Fowang Lawrence is a qualified agricultural technician, who has worked for 11 years with SOWEDA, and previously with a Phytosanitary base in Kumba. The ceremony which took place on Friday, August 17, 2007 at the Provincial Delegation of Agriculture in Buea, has been described as a relay of batton between men with an agricultural vision for the people. Improving the quality and quantity of outout of the sector is their watchword, and their yardstick is improving the lives and working conditions of farmers in the region.
Captioned “Young Girls protect your Selves against STD’s and HIV”, the fifth edition of the Aids Free Holiday Programme in Cameroon was launched in all 10 provincial headquarters of the nation. In the SouthWest Province, the event kicked-off on the occasion of the International Day of the Youth, Sunday, August 12, 2007 at the Alliance Franco-Camerounaise Centre in Buea.
The price of OPEC basket of eleven crudes stood at 68.30 dollars a barrel on Wednesday, 29/8/07, compared with 68.19 dollars the previous day, according to OPEC Secretariat calculations. OPEC Member Countries have embarked upon substantial investments, both upstream and downstream, to ensure that the world economy benefits from regular and secure oil supplies. OPEC Crude oil production capacity (excluding Iraq) is projected to increase to around 36.9 mb/d by 2010 from 31.7 mb/d in 2005. In addition, Iraq’s recovery should contribute significantly to raising OPEC’s overall production capacity. Similarly, production capacity of Liquified Natural Gas and other liquids will be expanded by around 2 mb/d to reach 6 mb/d by 2010. 
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