Nollywood pulls in the dollars

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Besides football, literary icons like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka and, of course, the late musical megastar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, there is no question that Nigerian movies have become one of the country’s top cultural exports, bringing in $250m per annum. Directly and indirectly, the industry employs 100,000 people, having grown from nothing 13 years ago. Osasu Obayiuwana provides this illustrated report from Nigeria, with pictures of some of Nollywood’s superstars.

During a visit to the South American country of Belize, whilst the managing director of the World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala would have assumed that anyone coming up to her was intending to engage her on the global economic climate and its effect on growth in the developing world.

But no. “People stopped me on the street and said, ‘Are you Nigerian? We love your movies’,” Okonjo-Iweala revealed recently. With a reputed turnover of 40 film productions a week and reported sales of $250m per annum, the Nigerian film industry, with very little encouragement from the government, has become one of the country’s main non-oil foreign exchange earners.

“They employ our young people, so it is perfect. The appeal is worldwide. Where you have people of African descent they love this stuff,” Okonjo-Iweala observed. “The thing is not [for the government] to interfere – it has grown on its own. To help it improve, two things are needed. Improvement in quality – that takes building capacity and having access to finance. Second is intellectual property. We need to regulate this, because part of the problem is they are not realising value because things are copied (pirated).”

Now that Okonjo-Iweala has returned to Nigeria, at the behest of President Goodluck Jonathan, to again take up the job of finance minister (which she also held under President Olusegun Obasanjo), the creative industry expects to get real and meaningful support from her office. Okonjo-Iweala is also in full charge of the economic management team, which has caused many to give her the unofficial title of “Prime M

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Finland no winner in collateral deal: analysts

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Finland has finally secured the right to demand collateral in exchange for new loans to Greece but the highly arcane deal with other euro zone countries achieved little beyond political face saving, analysts said.

Finland’s months-long campaign for collateral, resolved by a deal late on Monday among euro area finance ministers, gains it nothing and may mean a loss of political capital within the euro zone, they said.

“I don’t believe this deal is beneficial for Finland or tax payers in any way,” said Timo Tyrvainen, chief economist at Aktia Bank.

“Finland clearly complicated Europe’s problems by creating this side track which required at least hundreds of person-hours around Europe. All that energy could have been used for the real rescue operation.”

The government’s push for guarantees stems from a demand by Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen’s Social Democratic Party, the country’s second-biggest political group. It agreed to join the governing coalition on the condition that it stick by its demand for such security to new loans.

It was a rare stand by a country that takes pride in being a team player within the euro zone, and one that usually sides with Germany.

“We lost some political capital with this. We’ve gotten the reputation of a troublesome country,” said Sampo Pankki’s chief economist Pasi Kuoppamaki, adding he didn’t see the deal as beneficial for Finland.

Both analysts said the rise of the euroskeptic True Finns party made policymakers pander more to anti-euro sentiment.

Many Finns feel the countries being bailed out are getting an easy ride while they face austerity at home. Finland’s debt-to-GDP ratio, set to stand at 43 percent this year, is among the lowest in the euro zone.

NO OTHER TAKERS

Under the complicated collateral model, which found no other takers than Finland, Athens will lend Greek banks its own sovereign bonds which will be swapped into other Greek government bonds and transferred to an investment bank for sale.

The revenue from the sale will be put into an escrow account and invested in triple-A bonds, which are the collateral.

The collateral applies to 40 percent of Finland’s total share of the loans, 2.2 billion euros ($2,9 billion).

But in order to secure its guarantees, Finland must first pay its share of 1.4 billion euros into Europe’s permanent stability fund (ESM) in one tranche instead of five, meaning more interest costs.

It will also accept smaller profits from the temporary stability fund (EFSF), and in case of a default, the collateral will be frozen for 30 years.

It is as complicated as it sounds and was designed to make Finland’s demand so expensive that no other euro zone country would ask for the same. To that extent, it has worked.

The terms were set after months of negotiations among the region’s policymakers. An initial bilateral deal between Finland and Greece for cash collateral sparked criticism from several other member states who demanded the same treatment, raising concerns of a delay to the second Greek rescue package.

EU’s economy commissioner Olli Rehn on Monday joked that Klaus Regling, the head of EFSF, should be given the Nobel prize for economics or Nobel peace prize for preparing the complicated deal.

But for Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, caught between pressure to help stem a regional debt crisis and conflicting political imperatives at home, the deal was no laughing matter.

He defended the outcome on Tuesday.

“We can borrow money from the markets and invest it (into ESM) without increasing our debt level in any significant way, but not all countries can necessarily do that,” he told reporters.

He also said Finland’s interest losses will be roughly compensated by the dividends it gets from the ESM.

(Additional reporting by Terhi Kinnunen and Luke Baker; Writing by Ritsuko Ando, editing by Mike Peacock)

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Estonians put down roots in Finland

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Only 28 percent of Estonians living in Finland want to return home, according to research from the University of Tartu. These findings support a survey from a couple of years ago, which indicated that almost half of resident Estonians like Finland so much they are not even considering a return.

The research was aimed at discovering to what extent Estonians permanently residing in Finland wish to come back to their country of birth.

Of the respondents, 45 percent were sure they would not be going back, 28 percent missed home, and 27 percent could not answer the question.

The study found that an average migrant from Estonia is an under 30-year-old only starting on a career. Just under half had vocational education, and 15 percent were highly educated.

About the same number of men and women come to Finland, but they do so for different motivations. Among men, 47 percent said they did it for financial gain, while 43 percent of women moved for family reasons.

The Estonian newspaper Eesti Päevaleht reported on the research and estimated the number of Estonians permanently living in Finland at 22,000. The official figure from Finnish immigration authorities was almost 29,000 at the end of last year.

Resident Estonians have plenty of opportunities to visit their country of birth as the capital Tallinn is just a short ferry trip away from Helsinki.

YLE, BNS

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Finland falls out of love with EU

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HELSINKI (AP) — Once a timid and compliant member of the European Union, Finland has become one of its most rebellious.

The Finns have made headlines recently by threatening to pull out of a rescue plan for debt-stricken Greece and blocking Romania and Bulgaria from joining Europe’s passport-free travel zone.

The Nordic nation’s dwindling enthusiasm for European integration challenges the cohesion of the 27-nation bloc as it struggles to tackle the debt crisis.

“Finland is stepping out of line. It’s very clearly a new phenomenon,” said Jan Sundberg, professor of political science at the University of Helsinki.

The country of 5 million on the EU’s northeastern border has traditionally been more pro-EU than Nordic neighbors Denmark and Sweden and is the only country in the region to have adopted the euro as its currency.

But Finland’s affection for Europe is waning, with a survey showing that satisfaction with the EU has dropped to 37 percent earlier this year from 42 percent in 2005. Finnish business and policy forum EVA interviewed 1,918 people for the poll in January and February. It had a margin of error of 1-2 percentage points.

In April elections, the euroskeptic and populist True Finns party — which has since changed its name to The Finns — made strong gains in April elections to become the country’s third largest political group.

“Finland is seen as a troublemaker now. It’s a looming, increasing lack of solidarity with the European project,” said Marlene Wind, head of European politics at Copenhagen University. “If this spreads we’ll have a huge problem getting Europe back on track.”

After the election, Europe watched Finland’s government formation talks with grave concern, fearing The Finns would be included and stop Finland’s participation in eurozone bailouts for Greece and Portugal.

Conservative Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen in the end formed a coalition government without The Finns, but with four others, including two euroskeptic parties.

In May, Parliament approved Finnish participation in the Portugal bailout on condition that Finland be granted guarantees, or collateral, for its share of any future eurozone loans.

Last month, Finland and Greece announced they had agreed on such guarantees for Finland’s share of the Greek bailout but leading eurozone members, including Germany, insisted the 17-member currency union would jointly decide the collateral issue.

They said talks would continue with all eurozone members until a joint solution was reached.

Katainen, who is staunchly pro-EU, worried the collateral issue would tarnish the country’s reputation.

“To be honest, this will leave a mark,” Katainen said in a radio interview earlier this month. “But I believe it will be temporary and small, if we find a solution to the guarantees that won’t upset the stability of the euro and damage other eurozone members.”

Nevertheless, he is adamant that Finland will not back down from its collateral demand, or it will opt out of the Greek aid package.

To some extent the shift in attitudes can be traced to Finland’s maturity and self-confidence as an independent nation. Through most of its history it’s been occupied by its neighbors — for 600 years by Sweden and between 1809 and 1917 by Russia, with which it shares an 800-mile (1,300-kilometer) border.

It walked a precarious tightrope during the Cold War as a neutral country, submitting foreign policy decisions for Kremlin’s tacit approval in exchange for its independence.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, Finland jumped at the opportunity to cement ties with the West, joining the EU in 1995 after a referendum in which a clear majority — 57 percent — voted in favor of membership.

But the perceived threat from Russia gradually subsided, while Finland’s economy emerged as one of the most stable and well-off in the EU. With Greece and Portugal needing EU bailouts, Finland’s inferiority complex toward Europe has given way to a sense that it’s being forced to pay for the financial missteps of other countries, including Greece and Portugal.

This sentiment is spearheaded by The Finns party.

“It’s about time that we’re able to talk openly about issues that matter, and our Finns party has done just that,” said Toni Paussu, a 41-year-old tour operator who voted for The Finns. “At first we were labeled as swimming against the tide, but no longer. People listen to us now and others too have the courage to speak their mind.”

Last week Finland challenged the authority of Brussels once again, joining the Netherlands in blocking entry by the EU’s newest members, Romania and Bulgaria, to the borderless “Schengen” zone, saying they needed to do more to fight corruption and organized crime.

“We are not being difficult,” Katainen insisted. “Our aim is to make sure that countries that have problems … put them in order before they are accepted into the Schengen zone.”

Simon Tilford, from the London-based Center for European Reform, said he is baffled by Finland’s rebel stance on the collateral issue, but doesn’t believe that it will inspire many others to do the same.

“I think there is a risk of the smaller members, Slovakia and a couple of others maybe attempting that, but the diplomatic and political pressure not to do so will now be very, very fierce,” he said. “It’s very hard to imagine any of the key governments opting for that route. If it was the Netherlands or Germany or France it would bring the whole thing down overnight.”

Tilford said he expects Finland to be forced to a compromise because countries like Germany and the Netherlands “cannot afford for Finland to be allowed to be seen to free-ride on the back of their painfully wrought guarantees.”

Tilford says that Finland knew what it was getting into when it adopted the euro in 2002. “Finland has made its bed, it’s gotta lie in it,” he said.

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Fleeing Gadhafi bastion, bitter at the new Libya

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SIRTE, Libya (AP) — Families flowed out of Moammar Gadhafi’s besieged hometown Tuesday, exhausted and battered by weeks of hiding from shelling and gunbattles with no meat or vegetables or electricity — but unbowed in their deep distrust of the revolutionaries trying to crush this bastion of the old regime.

The fleeing residents were a sign of how resistance to Libya’s new rulers remains entrenched among those who benefited from Gadhafi’s nearly 42-year rule. Many of those fleeing Sirte said that the stiff defense against revolutionary fighters who have been trying to battle their way into Sirte for three weeks is coming not from Gadhafi’s military units but from residents themselves, volunteering to take up arms.

“This so-called revolution is not worth it,” said Moussa Ahmed, 31, who sat in a line of cars waiting to go through a checkpoint of fighters searching those exiting the city. “But we can’t say anything now; when we meet the revolutionaries we have to hide our feelings.”

The battle for Sirte, on the Mediterranean coast 250 miles (400 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, has become the focal point of the campaign by Libya’s new rulers to break the last remnants of Gadhafi’s rule. More than six weeks after the then-rebels swept into Tripoli and ousted the longtime leader, Gadhafi remains on the run, his whereabouts unknown, and his supporters remain in control not only of Sirte but also the city of Bani Walid and parts of the desert south.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday that the NATO air mission over Libya can’t end and the political process can’t begin until Sirte is taken. Libya’s de facto Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Monday that Sirte must fall before the transitional leadership can declare victory and set a timeline for elections.

The fight has been grueling. After three weeks, revolutionary forces have managed to get just over a mile (two kilometers) into the city. Heavily armed Gadhafi loyalists are holed up in the Ouagadougou Conference Center, a grandiose hall built by Gadhafi in the city center for international summits, and in the city hospital, revolutionary commanders said.

On Tuesday, fighters eased shelling to allow residents to escape, and hundreds of cars filled with men, women and children lined up at checkpoints at Sirte’s eastern exit. Mothers carrying babies in blankets stood by the side of the road, their children clutching their robes, as revolutionary fighters rifled through their cars, searching through mattresses, clothes and other belongings for hidden weapons.

“We haven’t had vegetables or meat to eat for over a month,” said one of the mothers, Attiya Mohammed. “The water is polluted, and forget about electricity — it’s been out since the middle of August.”

The city was a war zone, she said, buildings pockmarked with bullet holes and parts of the main hospital demolished.

Like many, she had been afraid to step outside her home. “The city was our prison,” she said. “If you left your house you risked being shot and killed.”

There was a palpable dislike between those fleeing and the fighters searching through their belongings, though there was no visible harassment and families said they were well treated, some given food and water. During his rule, Gadhafi turned Sirte into virtually a second capital, pouring in investments and giving residents prominent positions. As a result, support for the regime ran high — and many of those fleeing were dismayed at the fall of the old order.

Many of the fighters besieging Sirte are from the neighboring city of Misrata, which rose up against Gadhafi early and was brutalized under a bloody, weekslong siege by his forces during the revolt that began in mid-February. As a result, there is little love lost between the two cities.

One Misrata revolutionary at the checkpoint, al-Hussein al-Sireiti, said they find four or five cars a day with hidden weapons.

“We also check for people with bullet injuries, because that means they likely were fighting for Gadhafi,” he said. They also search for those on a list of known Gadhafi loyalists wanted for interrogation, he said.

Among those fleeing, Fatima al-Gadhafi — from the same tribe the ousted leader — bent her head over her five-month old baby girl and sobbed softly.

“They wanted a revolution — so do it in Misrata and leave the rest of us alone,” she said.

Wearing a black headscarf, her face freckled from the sun, she said she had never met revolutionary forces before Tuesday as she exited Sirte. She told one fighter to stop shooting his rifle so near her family’s car, but he refused.

“He said Moammar used to do worse than this, but I never saw anything bad from the old regime. We lived in safety and peace always,” she said.

Halima Salem, 44, sat patiently in her son’s pickup truck while he showed their papers to fighters at the checkpoint. The truck bed was filled with blankets, appliances and clothes. In the seat behind her, four birdcages were filled with colorful love birds and canaries chirping away oblivious of sound of shelling.

“I couldn’t leave them behind, they’re like one of the family,” she exclaimed, smiling at her birds.

She said she had been reluctant to abandon her home because gangs have been looting houses — she wasn’t sure what side they were loyal to, if either. During shelling, she hid under the bed in her master bedroom, clutching the youngest children. Finally, after bad shelling the night before, her sons forced her to pack up.

“How can it be that Libyans are doing this to us? Aren’t we the same people?” she lamented, shaking her head. “I feel bad for our (former Gadhafi) army … They were honorable men with high morals. And now this chaos.”

She and many others on the way out said volunteer residents were fighting in the city’s defense. “They are all normal men,” said Moussa Ahmed, who was leaving to undergo treatment for a kidney stone, but said he would return to Sirte as soon as his could.

“This so-called revolution is just not worth anything, not worth the blood of Libyans that has been spilled,” said a friend who was driving Ahmed. He refused to give his name for fear of reprisals.

Staffers from the International Committee of the Red Cross crossed the front lines into Sirte and delivered urgently needed oxygen and other medical supplies to the hospital Monday. Aid workers were providing food for thousands who fled.

At the checkpoint out of Sirte, fighters propped up hoods to look around the engines for hidden weapons or ammunition. They piled mattresses, blankets, food and children’s toys by the side of the road.

Fighters passed around a bottle of colorless liquid pulled from one pile of blankets.

“Is it alcohol?” one fighter asked.

It turned out to be eau de toilette, and the fighters gave it back to the family.

“I don’t really care if they drink,” said al-Sireiti. “As long as there is no weapons in the car, the drinking is between him and his God.”

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Libyan forces plan “final” attack on Gaddafi hometown

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SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – Libyan interim government forces have pledged to mount a final decisive attack on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown and one of his former lieutenants says he believes the deposed leader is ready to fight to the end.

“I think Gaddafi … has not left the country. I strongly believe, based on my knowledge of him, that he is fighting with his weapons and alongside his men,” Gaddafi’s former Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi, who is in prison in Tunisia, said in comments passed to Reuters by his lawyer.

“He will not give up and he will not lay down his weapons until the end,” Mahmoudi said on Tuesday.

Gaddafi and several of his sons are still at large more than seven weeks after rebel fighters stormed the capital and ended his 42-year rule. His supporters hold Sirte and the town of Bani Walid, south of Tripoli.

Government forces who had for three weeks been pinned down by artillery and rocket fire on the eastern edges of Sirte have since advanced several kilometers (miles) into the city, capturing the southern district of Bouhadi.

Bullet-holed cars carrying terrified, ill and hungry civilians crawled out of Sirte. Aid agencies say they are concerned about civilians who are trapped inside the city by the fighting and running out of food, water, fuel and medicine.

Commanders of forces loyal to the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) are talking of a “final” push to take the town. Backed by NATO warplanes, they have been bombarding pro-Gaddafi positions inside Sirte.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he expected NATO aerial operations over Libya to continue while fighting goes on, but that the alliance would discuss the issue this week.

“As long as there’s fighting that’s continuing in Libya, I suspect that the NATO mission would continue,” Panetta told reporters in Cairo.

NATO renewed the mission in September for 90 days but agreed to review conditions every 30 days to see whether operations could be ended.

A senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the “general consensus is that we’re not there yet because of the continued fighting and resistance of pro-Gaddafi forces.”

Panetta said the fighting in Sirte and the mystery over Gaddafi’s whereabouts left a question mark over how to end NATO’s air operation and allow the interim administration to move on to other issues.

Gaddafi’s former prime minister, who is in prison while the authorities in neighboring Tunisia consider a request from the NTC for his extradition, said he would be ready to cooperate with Libya’s new rulers if they dropped that request.

“I hope to be a part of the solution in Libya and not part of the problem,” he said.

GRIM SCENES IN HOSPITAL

Concerns about the humanitarian crisis in Sirte have focused on the Ibn Sina hospital. Medical workers who fled Sirte said patients were dying on the operating table because there was no oxygen and no fuel for the hospital’s generators.

“It’s a disaster,” a doctor who gave her name as Nada told Reuters as she fled the city on Tuesday. “They are hitting the hospital. Two kids have died there. There is random shooting at the hospital from both sides.”

On the east of the city on Tuesday, NTC fighters said they were trying to clear a corridor to the hospital but that they were being hampered by pro-Gaddafi snipers.

Gaddafi’s former prime minister, who is not on the list of former Libyan officials wanted by the International Criminal Court, distanced himself from the repression of the old regime.

“I tell you one thing: I was hated by Gaddafi’s entourage,” al-Mahmoudi said. “I am convinced that I have done nothing bad to the Libyans,” he said. “My role was to ensure food supplies for the Libyan people, particularly during the crisis.”

“The French know very well that this was the role I played … I had no military role.”

Gaddafi’s spokesman, and some civilians leaving Sirte, have blamed NATO bombing and NTC shelling for killing civilians and destroying buildings in the town.

NATO and the NTC say Gaddafi loyalists have been executing suspected NTC sympathizers and forcing others to fight.

A Red Cross convoy delivered oxygen and other urgently needed medical supplies to the hospital on Monday after an earlier attempt was aborted because of heavy fighting.

Ali Durgham, leaving the city with several relatives, told Reuters his father had been killed and his uncle gravely wounded by a shell as they walked to a mosque on Monday.

“My father died in my arms,” he said, weeping. “I buried him yesterday.”

Medical staff outside Sirte said they had been told the corridors of Ibn Sina were full of patients and that only pro-Gaddafi fighters or members of his tribe were being treated.

A military spokesman for the interim government has said that Gaddafi’s son Mutassim is hiding in the hospital.

(Additional reporting by Emad Omar in Benghazi, Jessica Donati, William Maclean and Joseph Logan in Tripoli and David Alexander aboard a U.S. military aircraft; Writing by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Andrew Roche)

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China: US currency bill would have repercussions

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BEIJING (CWN) — China stepped up its criticism Tuesday of a proposed U.S. law to punish countries with artificially low currencies, saying there would be serious repercussions for the world’s two biggest economies if it is passed.

The criticism comes after U.S. senators voted Monday to open a week of debate on the bill that would allow the government to impose additional duties on products from countries that subsidize exports by undervaluing their currencies.

How worried China is about the proposed law can be seen by the fact that the Foreign Ministry, the Commerce Ministry and central bank all issued statements denouncing it.

But the legislation faces considerable hurdles before it becomes law. The Obama White House, while agreeing that China’s currency, the yuan, is undervalued, has been wary of unilateral sanctions against the Beijing government.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said the Senate move “seriously violated WTO rules and seriously disturbed China-U.S. trade and economic relations.”

Ma said China is reforming how it manages the yuan and that since June 2010 it had increased in value by 7 percent compared to the dollar.

He repeated Chinese comments that the exchange rate is not the cause of America’s big trade deficit with China.

Ma said in a statement that China is the fastest growing export market for the United States and trade is important to both sides.

“The Chinese side appeals to the U.S. side to abandon protectionism and not to politicize trade and economic issues, so as to create a favorable environment for the development of China-U.S. economic and trade ties,” Ma said.

Supporters of the legislation say it would create new jobs and boost the U.S. economy, but China, and some in the United States, say it could trigger a damaging trade war.

The Chinese central bank warned the proposed law would not fix the economic problems in the United States and could cause more serious problems.

If the bill passes, it “cannot resolve insufficient saving, the high trade deficit and the high unemployment rate in the U.S., and it may seriously affect the progress of China’s exchange rate reform and may lead to a trade war, which we do not want to see,” the bank said.

Commerce Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said China has taken measures to increase U.S. imports and added Beijing hopes “the U.S. side can make positive efforts in substantially relaxing restrictions on exports to China.”

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