December 14, 2011
Africa: Using ICT Solutions to Reduce Global Business Emissions
The ICT industry, which contributes only two percent to global CO2 emissions, insists that ICT expansion is critical in achieving a low-carbon economy. Read more »
December 12, 2011
Africa: Tea Research Key to a Growing Industry
Pelly Malebe's research on helping plants withstand drought is personal as well as scientific. She grew up in South Africa's drought-prone northern province of Limpopo, where crop… Read more »
Africa: Solving Problems Through Science - A Conversation with Phillip Griffiths
Economies across Africa have continued to expand this year, attracting increased interest from investors, along with prospects for jobs for the large numbers of unemployed young… Read more »
December 09, 2011
Africa: Caravan of Hope
Fifteen days, six caravans, six countries ... 160 young people from all over the world gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to begin the journey of a lifetime. The African Youth Initiative… Read more »
Africa: Covering Climate Change - a Life-changing Experience of Learning for African Journalists
After traveling through Africa to Durban to cover the UN climate change conference, described by many of the African journalists as "life-changing", an exchange between the African… Read more »
Africa: Journalists Defining the Face of Africa in a Time of Climate Change
Crammed into a bus for 17 days, travelling for up to 15 hours at a time, and then finally stopping, only to be pelted by rain or scorched by the sun. This was the reality for five… Read more »
Africa: Experiencing the Climate Change Youth Caravan
This week a group of African media practitioners - young reporters, veteran correspondents and journalists-in-training - got together in the shadow of the COP17 climate… Read more »
Africa: 'How Good is Money When You are Leaving a Devastated World for Your Children?'
allAfrica.com asked young, African environmental activists what they would say to the world leaders negotiating on our behalf inside the Durban International Convention Centre. Read more »
December 08, 2011
Africa: Freedom Songs Sung to a Climate Change Tune
"This land belongs to women, they will never tire!" Chanted in Zulu, this South African freedom song from the anti-apartheid struggle was reworked into a protest song against… Read more »
December 07, 2011
Africa: Marketing the Fight Against Climate Change
Environmental activists have climbed to new heights at COP17. Known for courting arrest by attempting to commandeer oil rigs and whaling ships to highlight their pro-environment… Read more »
Africa: For Africans, Climate Change is a Question of Adaptation
High-level international role-players have arrived for climate talks (COP17) in Durban, South Africa, and are debating the key issues as they try to hammer out an accord. But what… Read more »
December 06, 2011
Africa: Climate Crisis Threatens Health of Young Africans
What's bad for the climate is bad for health. Read more »
Africa: Women Impacted by Climate Change - But Not as Victims
"I remember when we didn't have rainfall and my mother had to pay my school fees, so when there was no yield from crops she had to sell her fridge in order for me to go to school",… Read more »
December 04, 2011
Africa: 2011 - Jurist Who Backed Democracy in Niger Named 'African of the Year'
Salifou Fatimata Bazeye, a 60-year-old distinguished jurist from Niger, has been chosen as "African of the Year" by Media Trust Limited, publisher of the Daily Trust, Weekly Trust,… Read more »
December 03, 2011
Africa: Audacious Aim to End Poverty - Conversation with Lloyd Pierson
The United States African Development Foundation (ADF) tackles tough problems. An independent public agency established by an act of Congress, it operates among the most… Read more »
December 02, 2011
Africa: Putting the Fairness Back in Trade?
"Trade isn't always fair," argues Rob Cameron, CEO of Fairtrade International. "It's the imbalance in trade that makes it necessary for fair trade to exist." Read more »
Africa: Zimbabwean Rapper Kapital K Needs Your Vote to Perform at Lil Wayne's Show
Upcoming Zimbabwean hip-hop star Kapital K is likely to perform an opening set on Lil Wayne's concert on December 7 at the Bellville Velodrome in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more »
November 30, 2011
Africa: In Zimbabwe, Change Like a River in Aids Fight
When social worker Charakupa Ngwerume was named by the village chief to serve as a counselor on a customary court, his first priority was to campaign for the nomination of female… Read more »
November 29, 2011
Africa: Western Union Offering Support for Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Western Union and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) this week are launching an initiative to provide support for U.S.-based entrepreneurs from the… Read more »
November 13, 2011
Africa: Stop Natural Resource Plunder - A Conversation with Paul Collier
Oxford economist Paul Collier's latest book, The Plundered Planet (Oxford University Press), is a call to action. It deplores the extraction of Africa's natural resources to… Read more »
November 12, 2011
Africa: Celebrating Democracy and the Youth Revolution in Tunis
The Palais des Sports d'el Menzah was the venue Friday night for a form of exercise rarely practiced there: dancing. Read more »
November 11, 2011
Africa: Mo Ibrahim Promotes Next Generation While Honoring Good Leaders
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation marked its fifth anniversary last month and released its annual report on governance in Africa. Read more »
November 10, 2011
Africa: Tunisian PM, African Media Leaders Tie Free Press to Development
Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid el Sebsi says that a year after the uprising that launched "the Arab spring", the country is on the path to achieve the aims of the social… Read more »
November 03, 2011
Africa: The New Global Crossroads
Following is the text of a lecture to the UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management. Read more »
November 02, 2011
Africa: 'Environmental Challenges' Threaten Growth, UN Report Says
Over the next four decades Africa's progress in human development could outpace any other region of the world, but environmental challenges could threaten the continent's… Read more »