After holding in the last few years a series of African summits with a number of world powers such as Europe, France, China and India, here comes Japan. - The Japanese city of Yokohama will host from 28-30 May 2008 the fourth Afro-Japanese summit. This important event will be attended by representatives from Japan, 53 African nations, international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank as well as a number of non-governmental organizations (NGO's). The three-day conference will discuss important issues: -Enhancing economic development in Africa through benefiting from its different resources. -Means of achieving the Millenniums…

- After the successive summits held in the last few years between Africa and a number of international powers such as France and China, the turn is now on India: The Indian Capital New Delhi organised the first Afro-Indian Summit on 8-9 April with the participation of 14 African countries. This first summit is an initiative from Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister, since India has a number of interests in the African Continent: Africa is considered a large market for the Indian products. In this regard, the trade between the two parties has reached 12.5 billion dollars in the year 2007. Also, India announced that it will present 500 million dollars for development activities in…

- 10th of February became an unforgettable day for all Egyptians. This is the day that marked both the fifth and sixth African Cup of Nations, the first was in 2006 and the second was in 2008. The first after wining the strong Ivory Coast by penalties and the second was after winning the great Cameroon 1-0. After winning this championship, the Egyptian national team gained many things: -Being the only African team that won the championship two successive times twice: 1957-1959 and 2006-2008. -Being the only African team that has won this title six times. -Choosing 7 Egyptian players in the new African team. This proves the high performance by the team -Selecting the player Hosni…

- Among other issues, the summit will discuss two main themes that are of great interest to the African population:The first is the means of enhancing industrial development in the continent. In this regard, a number of meetings comprising the African ministers of trade and industry will be held in the near future to discuss the implementation of the "African Industrial Development Strategy", the main theme of the tenth African Summit.The second is "Water and Sanitation in Africa". In this context, the leaders will discuss the means of reaching a better usage of the different water resources available in the continent.Keywords:  egypt

- The Egyptian football star, Mohamed Abou Trika, won the title of the most popular football player in the world that was announced this month by the International Association for Football History and Statistics. The star, who plays for Al Ahly Club of Egypt and the Egyptian national team which currently plays in the African Cup of Nations in Ghana, received more than one million votes. The Egyptian player was followed by the Saudi player Yasser el Qahtani who received 613.116 votes and the Iraqi player Yones Mahmoud who received 583.769 votes. As for the Brazilian star Kaka, who won the best player in Europe and in the world in the year 2007, came in the seventh place.

- AfricaNews - Egypt will preside the first Afro-Chinese Ministerial Consultative Meeting set to take place in New York City on September 26th 2007. The Chinese minister of foreign affairs and his African counterparts from 46 countries will attend the preparatory meeting. This meeting aims to pave the way ahead of the 2009Afro-Chinese summit which will be held in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh. The 2-day meeting will discuss the progress in the implementation of the Beijing Plan of Action (which came out as a result of the Afro-Chinese Summit held in Beijing in November 2006) and will also evaluate the steps taken to enhance cooperation between the two parties. The Beijin…