April 01, 2012
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Africa: Continent's Priorities for Sustainable Development
In preparation for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio, African heads of state and ministers have been meeting on a consensus response. Africa's priority areas -... Read more »
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Kenya: Full Steam Ahead to Sustainable Energy
There is clean energy in the ground in Kenya - a lot of it - and Kenya has already moved to start tapping the Rift Valley's vast steam reserves. The government hopes to generate... Read more »
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Nigeria: Bid to End Subsidy Stirs Protest [analysis]
Nigerians have never been shy about public protest, even during the days of dictatorship. So when the government of President Goodluck Jonathan welcomed the country into 2012 by... Read more »
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Africa: For Sustainable Cities, Africa Needs Planning [interview]
Africa's cities are growing very rapidly. By 2009 some 395 million Africans - nearly 40 per cent of the continent's population - lived in urban areas. Read more »
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Kenya: Community Radio Gives Voice to Shack Dwellers
Korogocho, a slum in northeastern Nairobi, had many of the ingredients for a political explosion similar to those that rocked other parts of Kenya in early 2008. Read more »
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Africa: Mobile Phones are Getting Smarter in Rural Africa
Imagine you are in Yokadouma, a rural community in eastern Cameroon with little electricity and inaccessible roads. You have an old, inexpensive mobile phone with which you can... Read more »
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South Africa: Power From the Wind
Three blades - each the length of a tennis court - revolve atop a wind energy tower reaching 50 metres into the sky, equal in height to a 17-storey building. Read more »
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Africa: To Rio and Beyond - Continent Seeks Sustainable Solutions [analysis]
It is rare for a head of government to be greeted with applause at the very beginning of a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. But that's what happened last... Read more »
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Mali: Women Create Beauty - and Profit
Hand-dyed polished cotton - called bazin - is the mainstay of Malian fashion. The blind singers Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia extolled the fabric in a song released in 2005,... Read more »
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Africa: Africa Renewal At 25 - Keeping Up With a Dynamic Continent
Two Africa Emergency debut newsletters, neatly kept in the New York offices of the UN magazine Africa Renewal, provide a snapshot of Africa in 1985. That was before the internet,... Read more »
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Africa: Vanishing Lake Chad
As you approach the Lake Chad basin from Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria, the atmosphere of despair is telling. The air is dusty, the wind is fierce and unrelenting, the plants... Read more »
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Africa: Towards Cities Without Slums
Millions of Africans live in slums, and the rapid growth of African cities is compounding the problem. Africa faces the huge challenge of "improving the lives of slum dwellers, but... Read more »
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Africa: Looking Back After 25 Years [interview]
Salim Lone, who edited Africa Recovery during its first decade, looks back at the magazine's early days. At his home in Nairobi, Kenya, he spoke with Africa Renewal's managing... Read more »
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Africa: More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty
With their book More than Good Intentions, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel seek to stimulate debate on better and more efficient ways to address global poverty, beyond foreign aid or... Read more »
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Africa: 'Only Our Collective Voice Will Be Heard' [interview]
From the struggle against apartheid and poverty in his native South Africa, to helping lead Greenpeace, one of the world's foremost environmental advocacy groups, Kumi Naidoo sees... Read more »
March 30, 2012
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Africa: 'We Need a Sustainable Path for Our Future' [interview]
Interview with Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International. Read more »
February 27, 2012
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Africa: Governance Review Can Capitalize on Arab Spring [analysis]
The ongoing agitation in Africa triggered by the "Arab Spring" demonstrates yet again the importance of good political and economic governance for the continent's development. Read more »
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Africa: In Human Development, Africa Makes Slow Progress
For some African countries, there is cheery news in the 2011 Human Development Report. Read more »
February 15, 2012
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Africa: Women's Long Walk to Freedom [analysis]
Africa's political independence was accompanied by a clarion call to eradicate poverty, illiteracy and disease. Fifty years after the end of colonialism, the question is: To what... Read more »
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Africa: Security Reform Key to Protecting Women [analysis]
Sexual and other violence against women has been a feature of conflicts across Africa, from Sierra Leone and Liberia to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Even... Read more »
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Africa: Women: Asserting Their Rights [analysis]
As elsewhere in the world, women in Africa are struggling for their fair share of political power and economic opportunity. In recent decades - thanks in great measure to their own... Read more »
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Africa: Battling For Equality on All Fronts [analysis]
A decade-and-a-half ago, after a ground-breaking 1995 conference in Beijing that set ambitious targets to transform the lives of women worldwide, African women had reason to expect... Read more »
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Africa: NEPAD Embraces Women's Rights
When African heads of state originally launched their continental development plan, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), in 2001, women's organizations banded... Read more »
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Zambia: Gender Violence Hampers AIDS Fight
Maria is living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Anti-retroviral medicines (ARVs) are now more widely available and are supposed to make her life better. But her continued... Read more »
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Kenya: Investing in the Health of Africa's Mothers
Not far from Mathare and Korogocho, two of the biggest slums in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, lies the Pumwani Maternity Hospital. Some 27,000 women give birth there each year. Most... Read more »
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