After the visit of the Cape Verde foreign minister last week, a high-level delegation from yet another small African country will be visiting India, that of Sao Tome and Principe. The tiny island nation's foreign minister, Carlos Tiny, will make a four-day official trip next week. Spread over 1000 square km with a population of a little over 200,000 in the Gulf of Guinea with a huge potential of hydrocarbons, it is yet another African country that is responding to India's quest to develop stronger relations with the continent that is increasingly seeing competition from big powers like China and the United States to ...
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India news Sundaram 6 hours ago ( http://us.rd.yahoo.com ) View profile Category : Health New Delhi, Dec 2 : India has extended a line of credit of USD 5 million to the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, as well as a grant of $1 million for setting up an institute for the small sector industry. Tell a friend Bury
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India has extended a line of credit of $5 million to the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, as well as a grant of $1 million for setting up an institute for the small sector industry.
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Thirty-eight people have been charged with attempting a coup last week in the west African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, judicial sources said Tuesday. All those charged were presented on Monday and Tuesday in court, with the judge ordering that 27 of them, including Arlecio Costa, head of the opposition Christian Democratic Front (FDC), be held in custody, a lawyer for several of the accused, Levy Nazare, said. The 11 others were released under the oversight of the court, Nazare said. Another two people, women who worked at Costa's home, did not attend the court session and police were looking for them, ...
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The president of Sao Tome and Principe, Fradique de Menezes, spoke out Tuesday for the first time since a foiled coup attempt nearly two weeks ago and declared he remains in charge. "I continue. What has touched me the most has been the reaction of the armed forces and paramilitary. They came to my house to tell me, 'We are with you'," De Menezes told a press conference. Members of De Menezes's Democratic Movement of Forces for Change (MDFM) said on February 17 he intended to give up the presidency after accusations he was adding to the instability of the two-island nation off the ...
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