Articles in Africa

NORTH EAST Co-op will be flying the flag for Fairtrade at the 120th annual Durham Miners Gala on Saturday July 10th. The labour movement's summer showpiece event will once again be sponsored to the tune of £ 3,000 by the society, but an added ingredient this year will be an appearance by the Anglo Gold Choir from South Africa, who will perform at Durham Racecourse before the speeches and will also sing at the city's Cathedral the night before the Gala at a Co-op-sponsored free ...

TWO cheeses made at ACC Milk's Llandyrnog creamery have received recognition at the World Cheese Awards. A Mature Cheddar was awarded a silver medal and a bronze was given to a Cheddar with Herbs and Garlic, beating off strong competition from entries from around the world. The World Cheese Awards, which took place recently at Olympia, in London, showcased several hundred cheeses from mainland Europe, Australasia, South Africa and the USA.

THE Co-operative Insurance Society has joined an elite group of institutional investors, worth over £ 1.75 trillion, who are making a stand for corporate transparency. The group's target is to boost transparency standards in the oil and mining sectors of developing countries. Known as the Investors' Statement on Transparency the initiative gathers fund managers and pension funds from Europe, USA, Canada and South Africa, and signals the growing interest taken by the institutional ...