Africa

News Brief dated on the afternoon of Dec. 3

Date:2015-05-26

1、Moroccan individual travel visa is expected to be applied by 2015.
2、The first Tanzanian underwater hotel in Africa was open and the guests may sleep with the fish (picture).
3、The officials of ECOWAS said that common external tariff is expected to be officially enforced on Jan. 1, 2015.
4、The State Administration of Taxation of Gabon put the electronic tax system into formal use.
5、The AIDS infection rate of Guinea-Bissau still stay at a high level in West Africa.
6、Anti-terrorist situation drives the growth of military spending in Africa.
7、Several senior officials of Kenya including the minister of interior ministry resigned due to terrorist attack and president of Kenyatta declared war against the extreme organization "Al-Shabaab".
8、A 24-hour curfew was implemented in Yobe State of Nigeria.
9、The Southern Africa Business Forum of Ethiopia was opened in Addis Ababa.
10、China Road & Bridge Corporation has begun to recruit workers (at least 3000) in Kenya to take part in constructing standard railway.