World Bank: $6bn to the North Africa

 move from the World Bank is explicitly aimed at strengthening the spring Arabic democratic revolutions, the World Bank is committed to $6bn in loans for the Egypt and the Tunisia in motion explicitly to strengthen Arab spring.

The Egypt, who will receive. 5bn $ 4 over two years, is also speaking for the Fund currency International (IMF).

During this time, Qatar has offered to make up to $billion in investments in Egypt.

It is based on that the European Bank for Reconstruction and development - put in place to help post-Communist Eastern Europe - said weekend that it would begin loans to Arab democracies.

The Egypt and the Morocco had already applied to the EBRD for assistance.

But while the lender said that he hopes to eventually provide up to launching euros ($ 3. 5bn) a year in the region, while large such reorientation of its mandate would require the approval of all 63 members.

Funding gap

As the EBRD, the World Bank has explicitly stated its willingness to support the Arab spring of democratic revolutions.

"Our support and that of others, can maintain the momentum and accelerate the process, but only if coupled with real reform", said World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

The World Bank money will be made conditional on the progress of the countries to modernize their economies.

Tunisia - who was the first country to oust his former dictator - will receive $1. 5bn of international lender, including 500 m $ is part of an announced previously $1 MD together with the African Development Bank and the European donors.

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Other funds would be provided in other formats, such as guarantees, loans to private businesses and infrastructure financing.

The Egypt funding needs are daunting, with the collapse of the economy - including the tourism industry - triggered by the recent political unrest.

High demands of the people after the revolution were adding to the pressure on the budget, the Minister of finance Samir Radwan told the BBC earlier this month.

The country expects to run a deficit of 9 to 10% of economic output in the coming year and faced a funding gap of $billion-billion, of which he already officially asked the IMF to help to connect.

Support of the Gulf

Planned investments of the Qatar in Egypt are supposed to be consumed on a visit to Egypt by the Emir of the Qatar this Saturday.

"I think that these projects, implemented, will surpass billion $ and they will be produced productive in Egypt, said the Qatari Ambassador, Saleh al-Buainein.".

The Emirate can also buy the obligations of the Egyptian Government to help finance its deficit.

It comes after the United States and Saudi Arabia offered financial support new Egyptian Government.

The United States said it may cancel billion $ in debts and provide another billion $ in loan guarantees in support of infrastructure funding.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has offered a package of$ 4.

Several hurt in a crash of train South Africa

May 20, 2011 updated 04: 18 GMT some injured people were treated with torches to the scene of the accident more than 300 people were injured in an accident during the evening rush hour in the township of Soweto South Africa in Johannesburg.

Witnesses said a commuter train hit stationary train by behind and that the force of some of the passengers were thrown through the Windows.

At least two of the victims were reported to be in critical condition.

Officials have said it is one of the largest such incidents on railways in South Africa for years.

Photos of local television news showed losses treated at the scene by health care professionals - some of them tended to torchlight.

"About 300 people were injured, we asked for ambulances more to help transport people, hospitals" said Synock Matobako, a spokesman for emergency services.

Two persons were transported to the hospital, he said.

"It is the largest incident in recent years, even if no one is dead." People suffered several serious injuries. ?

The train was travelling between Mzimhlophe and Phomolo of Soweto during the evening rush hour.

One of the passengers, Gladwell Ntusi, described a loud bang followed by cries of hearing.

"It was horrible, I saw people with broken legs, another had cracked their temples. This was not a nice scene, he told journalists.

Now, an investigation was opened into the causes of the accident.

More than 640 injured in train crash South Africa

JOHANNESBURG  - a passenger injured more than 640 train accident Thursday night in the township of Soweto outside Johannesburg, local media reported the South Africa quoting emergency services.

The South African news agency SAPA said that two injured were in critical condition. She said that a train had apparently collided with a stationary of Soweto, the largest black township of the country.

Commuter train accident is a regular presence in South Africa. In 2009, nearly 300 people were injured in two separate train accidents that took place in the hours of interval.

In 2006, 27 people were killed when a truck carrying farm workers collided with a train of suburb at a level crossing.

Mixed messages from Africa (OneWorld.net)

9 (OneWorld.net) - two contrasting stories on the fragile economic development of Africa will face them heads of State gathering in Turkey for a critical United Nations Conference on "Less advanced countries of the world" which begins today.

At the Economic Forum on Africa that held in Cape Town, leading politicians and the development banks Friday painted a picture of the dynamic economic recovery, positioning of the continent as more exciting destination for investments of foreign companies.

Preparatory documents for the LDC Conference tell a very different story. Figures for poverty and hunger in Africa are rising rather than falling. And rich countries are accused of failing to control the unstable global economic and environmental conditions that inflict unfair setbacks on the most vulnerable economies.

These points of view remained in the World Economic Forum background where a study published by the African Development Bank said investors commercial potential in what they most wanted to hear. A new middle class is emerging in Africa.

The AfDB puts this figure "in the neighbourhood of 300 to 500 million people", a potential market for consumer goods which can not ignore the commercial interests. "Africa's emerging middle class includes approximately the size of the middle class in India or China," says the report, entitled "" in the middle of the pyramid: Dynamics of the middle class in Africa. ""

The World Bank has lent his authority to the conclusions. Interviewed by Overseas Development Institute of the United Kingdom, Chief Economist of the Bank Africa, Shanta Devarajan, said: "there is a feeling of optimism about Africa and the private sector at the Forum, with the delegates, referring to Africa as a destination of choice."

This photo of the investor-friendly is consistent with anecdotal of business travelers. The work of the major cities of Africa Environment begin to converge with global standards, while there is no shortage of young African business ready to do business.

A note of caution at the World Economic Forum event was sounded by the Africa Progress Panel, a high-level research and group chaired by former Secretary-General, Kofi Annan. Africa report published last week, annual of the group, described the recovery of the continent as "" low quality.... growth strongly dependent on the export of primary sources generally non-processed products. ""

The official entry of African Governments to the LDC Conference contains more explicit reservations, devoid of rhetoric of eldorado of the Cape. Their verdict which warned: "improving economic performance in the African LDCs has not contributed to earnings proportionate to the reduction of poverty."

African paper also notes that the State chaotic food world and of the energy markets, combined with the impact of climate change, is such that "hunger remains pervasive in many LDCs of Africa".

Held every ten years, the United Nations Conference on the least developed countries will review progress since the previous Brussels event in 2001. It also renewed commitment of the international community to the special needs of LDCs endeavour made to various conferences of the United Nations and summits in the course of recent years. Of the 48 countries falling within the classification of the LDC, 33 are in Africa.

According to this analysis by the Governments of the African LDC fresh optimism about an emerging middle class should be tempered by the rural economic realities. The majority of Africans live and work in the communities where agriculture remains taken trapped in a primitive State, with only 3% of land benefiting from agricultural irrigation.

Despite international commitments to the Millennium development goals, the number of people living in extreme poverty in Africa has increased over the Decade of 270 million to more than 300 million dollars. This was the conclusion of the 2011 of rural poverty report, published by the Fund International of the United Nations for agricultural development (IFAD).

The challenge for the economic development of Africa more inclusive is to break down the barriers between the embryonic urban consumers and poor agricultural communities. African leaders more articulate a vision of agriculture as a business proposition, attract investment and to persuade the young generation do step to migrate to the cities.

It is the vital question for the Minister of agriculture South Africa, Tina Joemat-Pettersson. "If they remain on the farm, the future of smallholder farmers be at the forefront of innovative, intensive agriculture of knowledge," she said in a debate on the report of IFAD in Cape Town.

The LDC Conference is likely to see a shift of emphasis away from potential private investment to the responsibilities of the richest Governments to honour their commitments to Africa. The story focused on the poverty of Africa's fortunes be important once more in Istanbul this week.

* More than information:

Africa Progress Panel highlights the economic recovery of the continent

OneWorld Global Poverty Guide