Citigroup and HSBC aren't exactly tripping over each other to sign up sub-Saharan Africa's rural poor.
The competition allows them to sign an overseas player, though, and BBC Sport understands they are hoping to sign a member of South Africa's World Cup squad.
Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ) and HSBC (nyse: HBC - news - people ) aren't exactly tripping over each other to sign up sub-Saharan Africa's rural poor.
The popularity of pyramid scams in South Africa is a sad sign of how easy it is to con people, particularly the poor and ill-educated.
South Africa said it would not sign on to any further BITs.
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"The new Libyan authorities haven't shown any sign of interest for the rest of Africa yet, " says Babacar Samb, a former Senegalese ambassador to Egypt.
The hostage crisis in Algeria is a "terrible warning" that the conflict in Mali "is not a matter between France and one of its former colonies in West Africa" but "a sign of the growing destabilization of the whole Sahel region, " the paper says.
Correspondents say he launched the forum of traditional rulers so they could join his campaign and press Africa's national governments to sign up to his vision.
The BBC's Jonah Fisher in South Africa says the announcement is a sign of deal under intense stress - but in itself it may not make much difference to the operation of Zimbabwe's government.
So far, there is no sign of a grand "Obama doctrine" for Africa - and perhaps that is a good thing given the diversity and complexity of the continent.
She remarked that coffin manufacturing was one of the few growth businesses in South Africa at the time and that she saw no sign of it slowing down.
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"I think this us a sign of underlying structural issues which you have seen in South Africa for a long time, " said Mark Rosenberg, an Africa analyst with the risk research firm Eurasia Group.
Others put it in East Africa or Asia, moving it on as Europeans went there and found no sign of it.
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Even so, fatal accidents, measured by the number of flights, are commonest in Africa and there, in contrast to the rest of the world, no sign of improvement is yet detectable.
The BBC's Peter Biles in Johannesburg says that coming from South Africa - the most powerful country in the region - the ANC statement is a further sign of Mr Mugabe's growing isolation.
But there is no sign that China's alarm over these developments will lead to greater confrontation between it and the West over Africa.
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