African Leaders Push for Self-financing
Experts say the heavy reliance on donor support affects and influences the bloc's priorities and approach to dealing with continental affairs.
African agriculture (file photo).
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Africa:
AU Heads of State Push for Self-Reliance
New Times, 18 July 2016
Heads of State and Government across Africa meeting in Kigali, yesterday, started the 27th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly with a focus on how to make the… Read more »
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Africa:
Africa, Begging With a Golden Bowl
The Herald, 18 July 2016
Africa's vastly underutilised agricultural potential is under spotlight in much of the book, with the continent urged to consider China's example of broadly mechanised agriculture… Read more »
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Africa:
Why Africa Needs Evidence-Based Policies
New Times, 18 July 2016
Policymaking is fraught with uncertainties and political considerations. Research-based evidence has to compete with many other factors in government decision making, but policy… Read more »
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Africa:
African Blocs Fail to Agree On Free Trade Area
East African, 16 July 2016
Twenty-six African countries have failed to agree on how traders would access a market of more than 600 million people through the proposed Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA),… Read more »
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Africa:
Amidst Brexit Woes, Africa Forges Ahead With Integration
New Times, 18 July 2016
In the days after Brexit, markets plunged, the Pound went into free fall, a Prime Minister resigned and the future not only of the UK, but also the European Union seemed uncertain.… Read more »
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Africa:
AU Academy to Foster Leadership Skills
New Times, 18 July 2016
The newly launched African Union Leadership Academy (AULA) is expected to train African leaders in leadership skills in order to support the implementation of African Union… Read more »
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Africa:
You Want the Truth but Can You Handle It?
New Times, 18 July 2016
I have a story about the story. The African story. I returned home from Zimbabwe to a story in this paper about this story of African news media editors talking about how to tell… Read more »