INGTON， March 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey has asked the Justice Department to publicly reject President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessor Barack Obama ordered wiretapping of his phones during last year's election， media reports said Sunday.

Comey made the request on Saturday after Trump criticized Obama for tapping his phones at the Trump Tower in New York just ahead of the Election Day last November， the reports cited senior U.S. officials as saying.

In a series of tweets on Saturday， Trump compared the alleged wiretapping to the Watergate political scandal in the 1970s that brought down former Republican President Richard Nixon for wiretapping the rival Democratic Party. But Trump did not provide any evidence to support his assertion.

Comey argued that Trump's claim was false and must be corrected， the senior officials were quoted as saying.

Obama has already refuted Trump's claim as "simply false."

Trump on Sunday also demanded Congress investigate the "potentially politically motivated" wiretapping of his phones by Obama during the 2016 presidential race.

The White House said in a statement that Trump requested that， as part of their investigation into Russian activity， the congressional intelligence committees "exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016."

Trump's "wiretapping" accusation came after days of media reports about the contacts between some members of his campaign team and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday he will recuse himself from any current or future investigations into Russia's possible link with Trump's presidential campaign， after admitting that he met with Kislyak twice last year but did not reveal it at the Senate hearings for his confirmation.

There have been suggestions that contacts between the Trump campaign team and Russia were picked up by intelligence agencies as part of routine surveillance of the Russians.

Trump and his aides have denied there were any improper contacts. But the media reports about the phone talks between Trump's former national security advisor Michael Flynn with Kislyak during the transition period already led to Flynn's resignation last month.

Several congressional committees are currently investigating the Trump team's contacts with Russia， which was accused of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential race to help Trump through hacking activities.

Russia has strongly denied such accusations.

ADDIS ABABA Comprar Nike Air Max 90 Mujer , June 18 (Xinhua) -- As part of its vision to become the manufacturing hub of Africa, Ethiopia will on Tuesday inaugurate the first phase of its flagship Chinese-built Hawassa Industrial Park.

The industrial park is said to be the first Sustainable Textile and Apparel Industrial park in the African continent with state-of-the-art infrastructural capacity.

It is one of the many projects in Ethiopia commissioned by Chinese companies that are engaged in various activities ranging from building industrial parks, setting up factories, constructing railway and other infrastructures.

Built by China Civil Engineering Corporation (CCECC) Comprar Nike Air Max 97 Mujer , the Hawassa industrial park located in Hawassa city some 275 km south of the capital Addis Ababa was initially completed in a record time of nine months back in July 2016.

Arkebe Oqubay, Special Advisor to the Ethiopian Prime Minster, speaking in connection with the inaugural ceremony to be held on Tuesday, said that the park would be considered as a model for other industrial parks under construction in the east African country.

He said that the development of sustainable Comprar Nike Air Max Mujer , world class specialized, export-driven and competitive industrial parks is the major target of Ethiopia so as to realize its vision towards economic development and become the manufacturing hub of the African continent.

In addition to the Hawassa industrial park, the east African country has further embarked on the development of similar other industrial zones in Kombolcha, Mekele Comprar Nike Air Max TN Hombre , Kilinto, Bole Lemmi II, Dire Dawa and Adama among others, of which Mekele and Kombolcha industrial parks to be inaugurated soon.

The Ethiopian government has planned to construct 10 industrial parks across the country aiming at enhancing job opportunities Comprar Nike Air Max 95 Hombre , earning revenue and promoting technology transfer, while majority of the parks are under construction or constructed by Chinese companies.

CCECC, in addition to the Hawassa Industrial Park, is already constructing another industrial park in Adama city Comprar Nike Air Max Thea Hombre , the capital of Oromia regional state, located 99 km southeast of Addis Ababa.

The company has also recently signed a contract agreement to build industrial park in the resort city of Bahir Dar, some 552 km north of Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, at a cost of 60 million dollars.

Li Wuliang Comprar Nike Air Max 90 Hombre , general manager of CCECC Ethiopia, during the signing ceremony this month, affirmed that the company will strive to finish the 75-hectare Bahir Dar industrial park, which is expected to host eight factory sheds and basic infrastructure utilities Comprar Nike Air Max 97 Hombre , within the agreed nine-month period.

Designed and being built by another Chinese company, China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), Arerti Industrial Park located some 140 km east of the capital city Addis Ababa, is another hope of Ethiopia in its quest to become Africa's manufacturing sector excellence.

Woody Lau Comprar Nike Air Max Hombre , Business Manager at CCCC, has recently told Xinhua that Arerti Industrial Park is expected to employ about 400 persons when the first phase incorporating a ceramic plant is finished at a cost of tens of millions of U.S. dollars.

CCCC is not new to building projects that have had strategic changes to Ethiopia, with its trademark.