Africa: Tax Avoidance 101

Aircastle Ltd., a Connecticut-based global company specialized in leasing airplanes, is not alone among large American companies lowering their taxes through creative accounting,… 

Africa: #MauritiusLeaks Reveals Tax Dodges

"Based on a cache of 200,000 confidential records from the Mauritius office of the Bermuda-based offshore law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman, the investigation reveals how a… Read more »

Africa: Agribusiness Vs. Agroecology

"It is not surprising, of course, that those with financial interests in the current input-intensive systems are responding to growing calls for agroecology with attacks on its… Read more »

Africa: New Horizon for Off-Grid Solar

With their most dramatic success in Kenya and other East African countries, off-grid solar home systems are expanding rapidly, reaching more consumers and extending beyond basic… Read more »

Africa: Victory for Lamu Residents Against Coal Giant

"On Wednesday 26th June, Kenya's National Environment Tribunal (NET) made a landmark ruling that set aside the license granted to Amu Power Company Ltd by the National Environment… Read more »

Africa: World Bank Ramps Up Attack On Small Farmers

"Enabling the Business of Agriculture," promoted by the World Bank, and now enhanced with a new sub-indicator on land policy, is presented as a way to advance agricultural… Read more »

Africa: Cutting the Costs On Remittances

"Some people use their savings to start a business, while others turn to family and friends to borrow cash. But Ismail Ahmed's case was more unusual. He launched WorldRemit, a… Read more »

Africa: Fighting Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance

The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in its annual Economic Report on Africa, focused on financing development in Africa, highlighted the urgency to curb what it termed… Read more »

Africa: Why Mining Is Hard to Tax

"In Africa as elsewhere in the world, while energy companies might be somewhat undertaxed, mining companies typically are greatly under-taxed. Indeed, it is only a slight… Read more »

Africa: Drug Company Profits Vs. Public Health

"Oxfam examined publicly available data on subsidiaries of four of the largest US drug companies and found a striking pattern. In the countries analyzed that have standard… Read more »

West Africa: West Africa/Europe - From Cocoa to Chocolate

"Cocoa growing communities, particularly in West Africa, are facing poverty, child labour and deforestation that have been made worse by a rapid fall in prices for cocoa. Widely… Read more »

West Africa: Tax Evasion Without Borders

"On paper, the company that engineered and built the [$50 million mineral sands] processing plant [in Senegal] was SNC Lavalin-Mauritius Ltd, a local division of SNC Lavalin… Read more »

Africa: Usa/Africa - Renewable Energy Advances On Many Fronts

Resistance to rapid renewable energy expansion is still high, despite the acknowledged costs in climate change. The U.S. Power Africa initiative still funds predominately natural… Read more »

Africa: U.S/Africa - Achieving 100 Percent Renewable Energy

"We can't have a working nation or a world if we don't stop the climate from careening out of control. That's been clear for decades now, but what's been less clear is precisely… Read more »

Ethiopia: Wax, Gold, and 'Ethiopianness'

The appointment of Abiy Ahmed as prime minister of Ethiopia on April 2 was met with relief and with high expectations by Ethiopians as well as internationally. Although he is a… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Women Continue Protest At Hwange Coal

At a meeting on February 11, two weeks into a protest by hundreds of women in the mining community outside the company's offices, still continuing in late March, the Hwange… Read more »

Africa: Charting Where They Hide the Money, 2

"Overall, the City of London and [its] offshore satellites constitute by far the most important part of the global offshore world of secrecy jurisdictions. Had we lumped them… Read more »

Africa: Charting Where They Hide the Money, 1

"Switzerland, the United States and the Cayman Islands are the world's biggest contributors to financial secrecy, according to the latest edition of the Tax Justice Network's… Read more »

Africa: Nigeria/Global - Promising Potential for Solar Mini-Grids

In contrast to fossil fuels, which require transportation of fuel to generation plants to produce electricity, and distribution networks to reach end-users of the power, solar… Read more »

South Africa: Inequality Is Extreme and Still Rising

"I came here because of my deep interest and affection for a land settled by the Dutch in the mid-seventeenth century, then taken over by the British, and at last independent; a… Read more »

Africa: World Trends in Inequality

"The divergence in inequality levels has been particularly extreme between Western Europe and the United States, which had similar levels of inequality in 1980 but today are in… Read more »

Africa: Tobacco Industry Targets African Markets

"British American Tobacco (BAT) and other multinational tobacco firms have threatened governments in at least eight countries in Africa demanding they axe or dilute the kind of… Read more »

Mauritius: Cyber-Island Strategy

"Mauritius remains unique in its region in having identified ICT as a fifth pillar of its economy alongside sugar, textiles, tourism and financial services. However, it not… Read more »

Nigeria: Delta Oil And Human Rights

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