Russia’s Rosatom signs agreement with Tunisia

premier safari destinations – were growing fast.

But Botswana’s banks and hotels are not generating sufficient numbers of jobs to satisfy a population used to rapidly improving standards of living. Unemployment is stuck above 20 percent and is more than double that for young people.

“So many graduates are just street walking with no jobs,” said Marks Leselwa, a 53-yearold labour claims adjudicator in Gaborone. “I’m worried by the fact that there is no employment.”

This was not to say Botswana was doomed. Improvements in mining technology and new discoveries meant the “end of diamonds” once forecast for 2018 had been pushed out to as late as 2050, Khama said, giving time to address one acknowledged failing: high-quality education.

“Modern economies are propelled by people who have been properly trained. One of the mistakes we made is not training people to be doers and creators,” Magang said. “But I am optimistic. We can easily fix that.” – Reuters THE GOVERNMENTS of Tunisia and the Russian Federation signed an agreement on peaceful uses of atomic energy yesterday, on the sidelines of the 60th general conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The document was signed by Sergey Kirienko, the chief executive of Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, and Tunisian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Salim Khalbous. Rosatom said that the agreement was the legal basis for bilateral co-operation between the two countries in a number of areas related to the use of nuclear power, including assistance in development and improvement of Tunisian nuclear infrastructure in compliance with international recommendations. – ANA