美国将对非洲投资10亿美元
美国政府开启了一个名为“连接非洲”的项目，这个项目将投资10亿多美元，来改善整个非洲大陆的交通、运输和产业链。
这个项目将由政府旗下的海外私人投资公司(OPIC) 负责。在未来三年，海外私人投资公司将为赞比亚、卢旺达、南非、肯尼亚、乌干达这些国家的项目提供资金。
本月早些时候，OPIC承诺将为一个电信通讯公司融资一亿美元，该公司将升级并扩大乌干达、冈比亚、塞拉利昂和刚果的电讯网络。
在乌干达，OPIC将为项目投资5800万美元，其中包括一个水电站。
美国10亿美元的资金相较于中国承诺的对非洲600亿美元的融资要少得多。
US to Invest $1 Billion in African
The U.S. government has launched Connect Africa, a program that will invest more than $1 billion in projects to improve transportation, communications, and value chains across the continent.
The U.S. government will carry out the initiative through its development finance branch, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Over the next three years, OPIC plans to finance projects with companies in Zambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Kenya and Uganda.
Early this month, OPIC committed $100 million in financing to a cellular communications company that will upgrade and expand telecommunication networks in Uganda, Gambia, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In Uganda, OPIC will invest $58 million in projects that include a hydro power plant.
The $1 billion in financing is small compared to $60 billion that China has promised to invest in Africa.
哈萨克斯坦花样滑冰奥运奖牌获得主被刺死
哈萨克斯坦全国哀悼惨遭刺死的该国花样滑冰奥林匹克奖牌获得者丹尼斯·谭。
25岁的丹尼斯·谭星期四在阿拉木图显然是在和两名企图偷盗他汽车后视镜的嫌疑人搏斗时不幸身亡的。
丹尼斯是韩裔，他是哈萨克斯坦首位奥林匹克花样滑冰奖牌获得者，他在2014年索契冬奥会上获得了铜牌。
由于身体带伤，他今年在平昌冬奥没有获得奖牌。
Kazakhstan Olympic figure skating medal winner Denis Tan Stabbed to Death
Kazakhstan is mourning the shocking stabbing death of Olympic figure skating medal winner Denis Tan.
The 25-year-old was killed Thursday in Almaty apparently while trying to fight off two suspects stealing the mirrors off his car.
Ten, who was of Korean descent, was Kazakhstan's first Olympic medal winner for figure skating when he won the bronze at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi.
But because of injuries, he did not clinch a medal at this year's games.
