August 01, 2012
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Africa: Building Peace From the Ground Up
With peace agreements ending wars across Africa, thousands of local communities have in recent years embarked on the long road of rebuilding and revival. The course is daunting:... Read more »
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Africa: Harnessing African Stock Exchanges to Promote Growth
Days before Facebook became a public company on 18 May, the hype behind the social network giant went into overdrive. The media proclaimed it the biggest ever stock market... Read more »
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Ghana: Beyond Mining Taxes, to Development
Obuasi, about 200 kilometres northwest of Accra, Ghana's capital, is home to one of the world's richest gold mines. For more than a hundred years the precious metal mined there has... Read more »
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Africa: Rio Summit Keeps African Hopes Alive
African expectations were high for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the biggest UN summit ever. The conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June,... Read more »
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Mali: Northern Mali's 'City of Saints' Suffers Rebel Fury
History dating as far back as the 5th century is literally being chipped away with pick axes and shovels at the hands of an extremist rebel faction in northern Mali. Holy Muslim... Read more »
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Africa: African Schools Keep an Eye On the Prize
A small, dusty, sparsely furnished building of mud bricks serves as a classroom for pupils at a primary school in Buterere, a town on the outskirts of Burundi's capital. Read more »
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Africa: Blackberries, Google and Fibre-Optic Cables Spread
It's elegant, it's hip and it's one of the hottest phones on the African market. Nothing says "I am important" like a man or woman whipping out a BlackBerry smartphone. It's easily... Read more »
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Africa: Private Equity - New Cash for Expanding Businesses
Africa is growing, and African companies need cash to expand. Investors want in on the action, especially given low returns in many other parts of the world these days. But with... Read more »
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Africa: 'Green Economy' - Empty Rhetoric or Pathway to Future?
With current trends leading the earth to disaster, world leaders and some 40,000 people converged on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June in the hope of charting a path towards a... Read more »
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Africa: African Tourism Comes of Age
Jet-lagged, 500 delegates from around the world arrived in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in May to deliberate on the path to Africa's tourism future. Read more »
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Africa: New Book on Warfare in Africa [book review]
War and Conflict in Africa, by Paul D. Williams (Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, 2011; 320 pp; $24.95) Read more »
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West Africa: Is Democracy Under Threat in West Africa? [analysis]
In May, Said Djinnit, head of the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA), briefed Security Council members on what he saw as a disquieting trend in West Africa. Read more »
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Africa: African Economies Capture World Attention
Young men and women chat along the glittering corridors of the sprawling shopping complex. With state-of-the-art mobile communication gadgets in hand, they go in and out of the... Read more »
July 18, 2012
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South Africa: 'Inspire Change, Make Every Day a Mandela Day'
"Happy birthday Grandpa Madiba. You remain true and the only icon to Africa." Okero Issack Otieno, in Nairobi, shared his salute to the legendary former South African President... Read more »
July 13, 2012
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Africa: Human Rights Is Essential in Fight Against HIV/Aids [opinion]
The world's collective response to HIV three decades ago can be summed up in one word: shameful. At worst, people living with HIV were, inexplicably, chained to their beds,... Read more »
June 25, 2012
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Malawi: Banda Revives Debate on Gay Rights
By selling the presidential jet and getting rid of 60 limousines driven by high-ranking officials, Joyce Banda, Malawi's new president, is making waves. Read more »
June 21, 2012
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Africa: Desertification a Threat to Africa's Development [interview]
Arable land is vital for Africa, both as a key asset for farmers and, together with vegetation, to help store carbon that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere and... Read more »
June 12, 2012
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Seychelles: 'Invest in the People,' Says President
The Seychelles, with its many Indian Ocean islands and beaches, is renowned as a high-end destination for tourists. Besides profiting from its beautiful landscape, it is also known... Read more »
June 07, 2012
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Africa: Africa's Economy Grows, but Many Stomachs Are Empty
Each year, governments, journalists, development experts and others look forward to the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report. The report includes a... Read more »
April 26, 2012
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Africa: For Girls, 'It Is Possible to Dream Big' [interview]
Growing up in her native Kenya, Juliana Rotich was the lonely, young "geek" with oversized glasses at school. Today she is a highly successful tech entrepreneur who is a co-founder... Read more »
April 19, 2012
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Nigeria: Beyond the Fuel Subsidy Crisis [analysis]
One would think that being a citizen of a country with the second-largest oil reserves in Africa came with some perks. Not so in Nigeria where scores of people are up in arms after... Read more »
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Africa: Optimising Continent's Megacities [analysis]
As African cities implode, leaders on the continent are intensifying efforts to address the challenges of urbanization. Read more »
April 11, 2012
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Africa: Entretien avec Joan Clos d?ONU-Habitat
Les villes d’Afrique se développent à toute vitesse. En 2009 quelque 395 millions d’Africains, soit environ 40 % de la population du continent,... Read more »
April 09, 2012
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Uganda: Helping the 'Collateral Victims' of Aids
Sitting on an old mattress in front of a small house in Kimukunda village in the Rakai District of southern Uganda, Teddy Nakawoeisi, 60, is waiting for her grandchildren to bring... Read more »
April 01, 2012
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Africa: Orange to Offer Customers Free Online Access to Wikipedia
In what is being promoted as the first partnership of its kind, millions of mobile phone owners in Africa and the Middle East will soon have free access to Wikipedia, an online... Read more »
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