August 3

• South Africa: Policy Trends to Watch in Next Month

  Head of Africa forecasting at Exclusive Analysis, Natznet Tesfay, examines some of the defining policy trends to watch over the next month. Read more »

• Ghana: What Are the Implications of Ghana's Transition? [interview]

  Richard Downie at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies considers four critical questions surrounding the unexpected death of Ghanaian President John Atta Mills and... Read more »

July 17

• Africa: Is Africa Being Victimised By the ICC? [opinion]

  Now in its tenth year, the ICC has faced criticism for a perceived bias towards prosecuting cases in Africa. Read more »

July 13

• Africa: Donors, African Countries Pledge Billions to Family Planning

  The international community has put contraception back on the development agenda with commitments to reach 120m more women with family planning services by 2020. Read more »

July 6

• Africa: Regional Business Schools Emerge

  South Africa's top-tier business schools still leave the others trailing, but regional leaders are emerging. Read more »

• Africa: Starting From Scratch - New Schools for Africa

  Stakeholders are working to build new business schools in a bid to meet the continent's shortfall. Read more »

• Africa: Management Education for the Masses

  If business education is to meet Africa's development challenges it is time to rethink models and increase accessibility. Read more »

• Africa: Climbing the Value Chain

  Processing natural resources will help African countries maximise the economic impact of rich endowments. Read more »

• Africa: Recovering From Disaster - Who Pays? [opinion]

  Earthquakes, droughts, floods, cyclones and other hazards impact over 200 million people every year. What financial safeguards should be in place to fund the recovery? As part of... Read more »

• Africa: Africa Builds Better Business Schools

  As Africa's business schools strive for global standards, they will need to deepen local and international ties. Read more »

• Africa: Business School Powerhouse Boosts Women

  Enase Okonedo is sitting on the terrace in Addis Ababa's sumptuous Sheraton hotel. She is attending the World Economic Forum on Africa - the first to be held in the continent's... Read more »

• Africa: Is Africa Ready for Low-Cost Airlines?

  FastJet, a new African discount airline backed by easyJet's founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, will take to the skies by October, potentially redefining air connectivity on the... Read more »

• Africa: Policy Forecast - Petroleum Debates in Nigeria - Mining in Gabon - Violence in Côte d'Ivoire - Taking the Fight to Al-Shabaab in Somalia [analysis]

  For This is Africa's July policy forecast, Natznet Tesfay reviews petroleum debates in Nigeria's parliament and evolving draft mining codes in Gabon, as well as tracking growing... Read more »

July 5

• Africa: Grow Continent Sustainably [analysis]

  Recently I sat in the stunning new African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, with several African heads of state and private sector leaders, in the 'Grow Africa Investment Forum',... Read more »

• Africa: Mobilising Energy Access

  "Energy access for all" was high on the agenda for world leaders at Rio+20. And rightly so. In the 21st century, hundreds of millions of households across Africa and Asia still... Read more »

• Africa: Economic Policies to Seize Green Opportunities [analysis]

  Population, income and consumption growth has fundamentally changed the environment in which we live. The demand for water and energy is expected to rise by 40 percent and demand... Read more »

• Africa: We Can Feed 10 Billion, But Will We? [analysis]

  Concerns about food - what we now call food security - are as old as mankind. Thomas Malthus' eloquent Essay on Population, published in 1798, crystallised the dilemma for modern... Read more »

• Africa: The Water Crisis is Now

  Studies show that by 2025 half the world's population will not have enough water to meet its needs. Already, a billion people do not have access to clean water, and more than 2bn... Read more »

• Africa: Govts Act to Boost Their Share of Mining Revenue [opinion]

  Many African countries have recently begun revising their mining codes to increase their share of revenues. Read more »

• Africa: Landlocked or Policy Locked?

  We are used to thinking of landlocked countries as victims of geography. We worry that Ethiopia, Mali, Rwanda and Zimbabwe, among others, cannot benefit fully from flows of trade,... Read more »

July 4

• Africa: Getting Commodity Prices Right

  Financial speculation, production challenges and policy instability generate volatility in commodity prices. Improved technology and information sharing may foster greater market... Read more »

• Mali: Intervention Strategy Must Start in South [opinion]

  Mali's post-coup transition in the South and the separatist rebellion in the North are two distinct but interrelated crises. Neither can be ignored. But the current planned... Read more »

• Africa: Bad Policy-Making Hits Development, Says Expert

  "Examining the nature of the political process and why obviously good ideas are not happening is the study of political economy, and that is what we should be doing" Read more »

• Africa: Changing Economic Dynamics Work in Africa's Favour, Says Trade Chief

  History has cast a long shadow over Africa's trade performance, argues Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organisation. Colonial patterns of trade prevented colonised... Read more »

July 3

• Africa: Growing Africa's Land [analysis]

  A global land rush is afoot and Africa is top of investors' lists. Optimists predict agricultural transformation. Critics fear food insecurity, degradation and displacement. Read more »