February 01, 2012
Africa: AU Urged to Recognise Women's Role in Trade
Delegates who recently attended a gender summit in Addis Ababa hope the African Union Summit on Intra-African Trade that was also held there will take their recommendations into… Read more »
January 27, 2012
Liberia: The Cocoa Comeback
"That is still a tall order," Michael Titoe says with a chuckle as he contemplates Liberia launching its own brand name chocolate. A fellow of the World Cocoa Foundation and… Read more »
January 24, 2012
Kenya: New Seeds Boost Yields for Drought-Hit Farmers
For a couple that has weathered the dual tests of early retirement and repeated crop failures, it might have seemed an impossible dream to former primary-school teacher Philip… Read more »
Africa: Aid Can Spur 'Historic Progress' - Bill Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates, who co-chair the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, say that they are responding to a challenge from Warren Buffet by taking on "the really tough… Read more »
January 13, 2012
Africa: Communications Boost for Non-Profits
The Internet is changing, and the greatest impact may be felt in Africa. With the exploding use of the web globally and the planned 2012 expansion of the top-level domain name… Read more »
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 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 »
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 24, 2011
South Africa: Benin President Signs Deals on Jobs, Investment on State Visit to South Africa
Benin President Thomas Yayi Boni, together with his delegation, was welcomed by President Jacob Zuma on his state visit to South Africa. 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 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 03, 2011
Africa: The New Global Crossroads
Following is the text of a lecture to the UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management. Read more »
October 18, 2011
Africa: U.S.-Africa Business Leader Wants Summit to Spur Ties
The Corporate Council on Africa, whose members include the largest U.S. firms doing business in Africa - along with many smaller companies - … Read more »
October 15, 2011
Kenya: Social Media Leapfrogs Drought-Hit Nation into a New Generational Order
Defying elders who flatly reject western culture, youth in northeastern Kenya are resisting efforts by spiritual leaders to ban social media. Read more »
October 14, 2011
Africa: Tapping the Potential of Women Entrepreneurs
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton admits she is surprised when she speaks with male economists and government leaders who doubt the ability of women to contribute to economic… Read more »
October 12, 2011
Africa: Elumelu Sees Impact Through Large-Scale Entrepreneurship
Tony Elumelu, who made a meteoric rise as a banking executive before retiring last year, knows what he'd like to accomplish with his new initiatives. Read more »
September 30, 2011
Liberia: Nation Ships First Iron-Ore After Two Decades
A colorful ceremony commencing Liberia's first shipment of iron ore since of the end of the country's civil war took place on Tuesday in the southeastern port city of Buchanan. The… Read more »
September 21, 2011
Botswana: Diamond Sorting, Sales to Move From London to Gaborone
Botswana aims to transform itself into an international hub of the world diamond industry, boosted by a deal in which the De Beers mining and sales empire will transfer the… Read more »
September 09, 2011
South Africa: Preparing for the Inevitable Power Outages
ESKOM is South Africa's state electricity provider, which is supremely unpopular with consumers, not only for the frequent "load-shedding", but because of… Read more »
September 07, 2011
Africa: Surfing the Radio Waves for Sustainable Agriculture
While the use of mobile phones is rapidly surging across Africa, access gaps persist between urban and rural users. But a new generation of social entrepreneurs is remedying this… Read more »
August 29, 2011
South Africa: No More Loan Sharks
There are 10 people in Noamen Nongezi's household, including her husband and their three children, two children orphaned when her two sisters died of Aids, a child that her husband… Read more »
South Africa: The Woman Who Woke From the Dead
Nearly 10 years ago Zandile Malgas was rushed to hospital, declared dead, then woke up to find herself in a morgue. At this point she began to take her HIV status seriously, and… Read more »
South Africa: Savings Groups Help Rural Households Affected by HIV/Aids
A poor and HIV-positive South African may well hear advice about "living positively" with HIV, but this is guidance that many find impossible to follow. Read more »
August 26, 2011
West Africa: Four Presidents Ask Business to Back Democracy with Investment - and Make Money
Four heads of state from French-speaking West Africa appeared before the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) membership last month to appeal for American support for the democracies,… Read more »
August 22, 2011
South Sudan: New Govt Must Prepare for Scrutiny - U.S. Activist
In the Republic of South Sudan, partition has created both opportunities and obstacles. Against a backdrop of regional and ethnic tensions, reports of human rights abuses continue… Read more »