Last year, it achieved an impressive economic growth rate of 20 per cent.

It was actually interesting that such a communist principle was the basis of a system developed during the Cold War by the Defense Department, but it obviously worked really well, and we all saw what happened with the Internet.

In October 2004, the customs expert of the Monitoring Group addressed a meeting of regional customs intelligence national contact persons for East and Southern African countries, drawing attention to the United Nations arms embargo.

And what is more important, because we want to get away from oil and diversify and there are so many opportunities in this one big country, as in many countries in Africa what was remarkable is that much of this growth came not from the oil sector alone, but from non oil.