Year-on-year mobile phone subscriber growth in Africa: 61%

Year-on-year mobile phone subscriber growth in Asia: 25%

African mobile phone users in 1998: 2 million

African mobile phone users in 2005: 135 million

U.S. oil imports pumped in Africa: 18.6%

U.S. oil imports pumped in the Middle East: 17.2%

2005 African economic growth: 5%

2005 EU economic growth: 3.6%

The UK's top 1000 companies voted Africa as their
first-choice location for offshore call-centres

3 of the world's 10 fastest growing economies are:
Botswana, Angola and Uganda.

Africa:
World leader in safer nuclear power
Pioneer of fuel from coal