Game Schedules for for the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana

Group A Venue: Accra
Dates Teams Venues 20/01/08 Ghana v Guinea Accra 21/01/08 Namibia v Morocco Accra 24/01/08 Guinea v Morocco Accra 24/01/08 Ghana v Namibia Accra 28/01/08 Ghana v Morocco Accra 28/01/08 Guinea v Namibia Sekondi
	Group B Venue: Sekondi
Dates Teams Venues 21/01/08 Nigeria v Ivory Coast Sekondi 21/01/08 Mali v Benin Sekondi 25/01/08 Ivory Coast v Benin Sekondi 25/01/08 Nigeria v Mali Sekondi 29/01/08 Nigeria v Benin Sekondi 29/01/08 Ivory Coast v Mali Accra
	Group C Venue: Kumasi
Dates Teams Venues 22/01/08 Egypt v Cameroon Kumasi 22/01/08 Sudan v Zambia Kumasi 26/01/08 Cameroon v Zambia Kumasi 26/01/08 Egypt v Sudan Kumasi 30/01/08 Egypt v Zambia Kumasi 30/01/08 Cameroon v Sudan Tamale
	Group D Venue: Tamale
Dates Teams Venues 23/01/08 Tunisia v Senegal Tamale 23/01/08 South Africa v Angola Tamale 27/01/08 Senegal v Angola Tamale 27/01/08 Tunisia v South Africa Tamale 31/01/08 Tunisia v Angola Tamale 31/01/08 Senegal v South Africa Kumasi
	Quarter-finals
Dates Teams Venues 03/02/08 1. Group A winners v Group B runners-up Accra 03/02/08 2. Group B winners v Group A runners-up Sekondi 04/02/08 3. Group C winners v Group D runners-up Kumasi 04/02/08 4. Group D winners v Group C runners-up Tamale
	Semi-finals
Dates Teams Venues 07/02/08 Winner quarter-final 1 v Winner quarter-final 4 Accra 07/02/08 Winner quarter-final 2 v Winner quarter-final 3 Kumasi
Dates Teams Venues 09/02/08 Third place play-off Accra
Dates Teams Venues 10/02/08 Final Accra

Moladi - low cost housing construction

Moladi is utilizing a unique plastic injection molded technology to produce cast-in-place mortar structures. The process allows unskilled laborers to use indigenous materials to quickly and cheaply construct high standard permanent buildings that are earthquake, cyclone and tsunami resistant. With the intended purpose of "housing the nations", the construction technology addresses four key challenges embodied in the low cost housing shortages facing developing countries, namely: lack of resources, insufficient funds, shortage of skills, and time constraints.

Jatropha Africa

Jatropha Africa-Ghana, is a Bio Diesel Feedstock Company. Commercial activities include; growing seedlings, contract planting, harvesting and selling oil seed as feedstock to bio diesel companies and farmers.

Their vision is to provide a leading position amongst the Jatropha growers of Africa and as a provider of high quality Jatropha Seeds and Oil to customers around the world.

Eden campus - Africa's first green business school

Here is a video about Eden Campus, Africa's First Green Business School.

Watch Africa cup of nations online on your pc

Watch the Africa Cup of Nations right on your PC. It is not free, but priced favorably.

Sonangol Oil - Angola

Sonangol oil is a parastatal (a partially state-owned corporation or government agency) that oversees petroleum and natural gas production in Angola. The group has many subsidiaries. The subsidiaries generally have Sonangol as a primary client, along with other corporate, commercial and individual clients. Angola is estimated to have over 5 billion barrels of offshore and coastal petroleum reserves, and new discoveries are outpacing consumption by a 5 to 1 ratio.

South African women growing organic food

The women in the the Fezeka community in Gugulethu, South Africa are growing organic foods and selling them at market prices. Each women has her own plot, on which she grows food for herself, her family and her neighbours. In the middle of the private plots is a communal plot, on which the women grow vegetables which they sell, sharing the profits.

South Africa - Cellphone helps reduce irrigation costs

By: Fidelis Zvomuya, AfricaNews reporter in Pretoria, South Africa, photo: Martha Piqueras

Small scale sugar cane farmers in South Africa have managed to potentially reduce their direct irrigation costs by US$300 per hectare thanks to the use of a high cellphone technology system that is providing them with practical, real up to date information about when to irrigate their crops.

The system called My Canesim employs automatic weather stations, the internet and cellular technology that uses a newly formulated concept, dynamic depletion level to manage irrigation on large fields allowing spatial and temporal extrapolation of point simulations to other parts of the field and to future days within an irrigation cycle.

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Gazprom plans Africa gas grab

The Russians are challenging Western oil companies by holding talks with African countries for energy partnerships. To the chagrin of the European Union, the Europeans are opposing any Russian state-owned dominance that could choke Europe's thirst for energy.

Financial Times

By Matthew Green in Abuja and Catherine Belton in Moscow


Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy group, is seeking to win access to vast energy reserves in Nigeria in a move that will heighten concerns among western governments over its increasingly powerful grip on gas supplies to Europe.

A senior Nigerian oil industry official, who declined to be named, said the company was offering to invest in energy infrastructure in return for the chance to develop some of the biggest gas deposits in the world.

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AVCA - Africa venture capital association

AVCA is a not-for-profit entity founded to promote, develop and stimulate private equity and venture capital in Africa. AVCA is committed to promoting high ethical standards of business conduct and professional competence in the private equity and venture capital industries.

Full Membership is open to private equity and venture capital firms and persons active in making equity investments and whose main business is carried out in Africa.

Tradenet - commodity pricing via sms in Africa

Tradenet allows users to sign-up for SMS alerts for whatever commodities and areas they are interested in. Users can request prices which are provided in realtime on the network from many market enumerators that are active throughout 380 markets spread across the continent. Users can also indicate their areas of business and receive instant SMS alerts for offers to buy or sell as soon as anyone else on the network has submitted an offer via their mobile.

The service online allows analysts to plot trends of historical price data comparing markets and commodities. Countries can add international commodity prices, and generate special market reports that can be printed and pasted in local cybercafes and community markets. Individual users can setup their own free website with their own custom internet address to advertise their goods and offers. And farmer and producer groups can setup free websites to manage all these services and content for their members.