July 22

• Congo-Kinshasa: Intervention Brigade - End Game in the Congo?

  To the outsider at least, the immediate problem with the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)--a perennial vortex of instability, massive human rights violations... Read more »

• Africa: Tapping Migration Wealth to Fund Development

  In a small and stuffy room in midtown Manhattan, some people are filling in forms while others wait patiently in line to submit them. It is spring in New York City but the... Read more »

• Kenya: Seeking Influence for Women [analysis]

  "If you want to be influential in the political arena, you need to influence policy," Betty Kaari Murungi, a social justice advocate, recently told a room filled with female... Read more »

• Congo-Kinshasa: UN Chief Teams Up With World Bank Leader to Resolve Conflict and Fight Poverty in Congo

  As the United Nations intervention brigade takes up positions to confront armed rebels in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, expectations are high among some... Read more »

• Africa: Uprooting the Causes of Conflicts [analysis]

  On 11 July 2011, when South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his 8.3 million compatriots celebrated the new country's first independence, he was careful to remind everyone of the... Read more »

• Africa: Most African Countries Will Be Middle Income By 2040 [interview]

  It's been a year since Carlos Lopes was appointed UN under-secretary-general and executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read more »

• Africa: Shea Butter Nourishes Opportunities for Women [analysis]

  In a fancy Manhattan hotel in New York, women in colorful traditional African gowns make their way to one of the conference rooms. Their outfits provide a fascinating contrast to... Read more »

• Africa: A New Burst of Energy in Industrial Activity [analysis]

  Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), often talks about Toblerone, the famous chocolate bar manufactured in Switzerland... Read more »

• Africa: No Place Like Home

  Mariam Koné left Canada five years ago to start a business consulting firm in Bamako, the capital of Mali. As her client base grew steadily, earnings from her company,... Read more »

• Nigeria: Slippery Justice for Victims of Oil Spills

  In a stunning and dramatic legal ruling that echoed from the serene court chambers in the Netherlands to the heart of rural Niger Delta in Nigeria, the District Court of The Hague... Read more »

July 19

• Africa: 'Ensure That Everyone Benefits From Economic Gains' [interview]

  In May 2012, Maged Abdelaziz was appointed as the UN's new special adviser on Africa, at the level of under-secretary-general. Read more »

May 31

• Africa: Bosco Ntaganda During His Initial Appearance Before the International Criminal Court [press release]

  Congolese rebel Bosco Ntaganda is the latest African to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Mr. Ntaganda faces several counts of war crimes and... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Youth Unemployment: Lessons From Ethiopia [press release]

  In Hawassa City in southern Ethiopia, 250 kilometres from the capital Addis Ababa, 24-year-old Mitike Paulos, her younger sister and three friends are busy producing leather bags... Read more »

• Africa: Africa's Greatest Assets Are Its Young People [interview]

  Ahmad Alhendawi was appointed in January as the UN Secretary-General's envoy on youth who will be the voice of young people all over the world. Read more »

May 08

• Kenya: Kenya Pushes Technology Into Overdrive

  The country that gave the world two groundbreaking innovations in tech-nology: M-Pesa, a mobile banking system, and Ushahidi, a platform for crowd sourcing information during... Read more »

• Africa: Africa Unveils its First Smartphone And Tablet

  Excitement greeted news that Vérone Mankou, the 26-year old entrepreneur from the Republic of Congo, has designed Africa's first smartphone and a tablet, the hand-held... Read more »

April 12

• Africa: Japan - Africa's Subtle but Effective Partner [interview]

  Interview with JICA President, Akihiko Tanaka Read more »

April 11

• Somalia: Somali Diaspora's Remittances Cast A Lifeline

  During two decades of conflict, famines and floods, money sent back home by Somali expatriates — known as remittances — has been instrumental in keeping Somalia afloat.... Read more »

• Africa: The Continent's Youth - A "Ticking Time Bomb" Or An Opportunity?

  Senegalese opposition politicians denounced the country's high unemployment rate to mobilize youth against former President Abdoulaye Wade in the country's 2012 presidential... Read more »

• Africa: A Seat At The Table

  Ask members of the African political elite, civil society activists or anyone else about the role of youth in national development and you will hear a lot of profound, if trite,... Read more »

• Africa: The Continent's Youth Hungry For Connectivity

  In a tiny sweltering tin-roofed shack tucked inside one of Mogadishu's bullet-riddled neighbourhoods, two brothers, Ali Hassan and Mustafa Yare, sit hunched over one of eight... Read more »

• Africa: The Continent's Mobile Youth Drive Change

  The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cell... Read more »

• Africa: What Does The 'Doha Climate Gateway' Mean For Africa?

  A UN climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, concluded in December 2012 with a new agreement called the "Doha Climate Gateway." Its major achievements included the extension... Read more »

• Nigeria: The Film Industry - A Potential Gold Mine? [analysis]

  As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa's largest distributor of Nigerian movies, and has raked in over... Read more »

April 05

• Rwanda: Rwanda Genocide Survivors Struggle to Rebuild Their Lives

  Waking up one day to hear that her entire family had been slaughtered sounded like a horror movie to Jacqueline Murekatete. And yet it happened to her and scores of men, women and... Read more »