South Africa, along with Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia, accounted for 60 percent of all direct investment inflows into Africa from 1997 to 2001, a draft World Economic Forum (WEF) report had shown.

Evian, Switzerland - The first concrete results of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) would soon be launched in the form of projects to connect electricity networks in west and north Africa, the Nepad secretariat told the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations at its annual summit here yesterday.

Worsening conditions have been reported in one in 12 African countries, Parliament hears

AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL team meets in Pretoria today to firm up the strategy of selling and implementing the Millennium Africa Recovery Programme (Map) to South Africans.