 Best Airline

South Africa

South African Airways (SAA) has been selected as the best airline in Africa for its excellent service and convenient connections, the airline announced in July. The state-owned airline has won the recognition for 10 consecutive years from SKYTRAX, a global aviation research organization based in London.

 Coffee Partnership

Kenya

Kenya is seeking partnerships with Chinese investors for joint coffee processing ventures as the country seeks focus from the traditional European market to Asian and African markets. The Coffee Board of Kenya Managing Director Loise Njeru said what Kenya requires is local processing and packaging capacity to improve export of processed coffee to the emerging foreign coffee markets. Njeru said they are looking for partnerships on value addition, packaging and branding with Chinese investors.  

Numbers:

7.8%

China's GDP growth in first half of 2012

38.56 Million

The number of outbound visits by Chinese mainland residents January-June of 2012

$166 Billion

Sino-Africa trade volume in 2011

$7 Million

UN's emergency fund for Congolese refugees in Uganda