Development
New York Forum Africa 2013: The ICC, judicial colonialism in Africa?
At a debate on "independence" in Africa during the second edition of the New York Forum Africa 2013 in Libreville, Gabon, the Rwandan minister...
Africa, a “myriad” of markets
Africa is consuming, but not enough. The products arriving on African markets do not necessarily match demand. It is all happening too slowly. These...
NYF Africa 2013: “We are not beggars,” says Ali Bongo
The Gabonese president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, speaking on Friday at the 2nd edition of the New York Forum Africa, invited Africans to work for...
New-York Forum Africa: going forward
From 14 to 16 June, Libreville moves to the beat of the second New-York Forum Africa. The success of the first forum, in June...
Thabo Mbeki: “The relationship between African and its ex-colonizers is illegal!”
Charity begins at home, and Africans need to take the first bold steps to deal with problems affecting them instead of depending on the...
Argentine orders the evacuation of Libertad ship by Ghanaian authorities
The navy training ship seized by the Ghanaian authorities earlier this month has received orders to evacuate the over 300 sailors on board.
The...
Morocco and Spain strengthening their relations
The second meeting for strengthening the excellent relations existing between Morocco and Spain ended on Wednesday in Rabat.
The latter had taken lunch on Wednesday...
EU agencies promote Aquaculture to fight against hunger in poor countries
An international initiative to create awareness on the role of aquaculture in food security in poor countries has been launched; the program will bring...
GUINEA RELIEF OF ITS DEBTS
Guinea has been relief of a debt of over 2.1 billion this Wednesday and has now been removed from the list of highly indebted...
Individual Liberty delivers economic freedom and progress
Everyone says they believe in freedom. The kind of freedom that endures is individual liberty that comes at no cost to anyone else. Increasing...
Africa’s ‘Growth is not accompanied by employment’?
Africa’s labour movement is on the move from Cape to Cairo – demanding democracy, devising policy and building a new African economy that creates...
Ethiopia and U.K. forge closer economic ties
Ethiopia and United Kingdom are soon to sign a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) that aims to give further impetus to growing trade and investment...
Africans lend tech savvy to elections, banking, education
Africa is wired and fast proving its tech savviness as millions of Africans adopt new technology. A decision by UEMOA, an eight-member country, to...
African hi-tech taking leading position
For 48 long hours, employees of Senegal’s National Telecommunications Company cut telephone and Internet connections to the rest of the world. That bold action,...
Mozambique: Brazil and U.S. join in cooperative development program
Mozambique has lots of fertile land and access to the region’s major rivers. Yet the country imports most of its food, much of it...
Ethiopia: Egyptian fears over new dam ‘groundless’
The Ethiopian government has downplayed the effect that a dam it is planning to build near the Sudanese border could have on lower Nile...
Clean water for rural Ethiopia
After Lori Pappas first arrived in the Omo River Valley in southwestern Ethiopia three years ago, the first thing she did was conduct a...
Botswana diamond sector wage disparity favours South Africans?
World over, particularly in Africa, diamond deposits have often been a source of bloody conflicts. However, Bostwana, a largely desert southern African nation endowed...
Southern Sudan lacks latrines and toilets
Over 80 per cent of south Sudanese have no acess to proper latrines and toilets, a survey conducted by Southern Sudan Center for Census,...
African Renaissance: Rethinking Political Leadership on the Continent
‘Gently in manner, strong in deed’ were the inscriptions sitting atop the Presidential Desk at the oval office when Dwight Eisenhower occupied the White...
Ethiopia: Kenyan protests could compromise mega electric project?
After massive protests in Nairobi, Kenya, last weekend, against the construction of Ethiopia's mega hydro electric dam, Gilgel Gibe III, calling on China to...
Customized inventions for Africa gaining ground
In 1993, Englishman Trevor Baylis designed a windup radio that does not need electricity. He hoped his invention would help spread information about AIDS...
Togo – China: Development plans amid questionable record
China has promised to fund agriculture, health care and education in Togo as Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi visited the West African nation to...
The Other Africa in pictures: Philippe Sibelly, a man with a mission
Philippe Sibelly is a man with a mission: to balance the “deficit of image” surrounding the African continent. Given the Western world’s daily...
Africa: A man without a job has no status
For 17 years Peter worked as a machine operator in a South African textile plant. It was not high-paying work, but it paid the...
Empowering Women: Governments must “practice what they preach”
When the former Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, convened the first meeting of the new UN women’s rights agency, UN Women, in late January, she...
Negative effects of development
Surprising but true – as a country develops, its progress towards greater wealth is very often accompanied by the emergence of new health problems.
A...
Senegal: Presidents rally to change the world at World Social Forum
The rally to change the world has kicked off in Senegal as activists gathered in the capital city of Dakar to communicate the message:...
Ethiopia: Mega irrigation project on disputed river planned
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has announced plans to start an irrigation project on the trans-boundary Omo River. The announcement comes in spite of...
A remodeled Marshall Plan for Africa?
The Marshall Plan — the world’s most successful aid project — revived post–World War II Europe by fostering entrepreneurs and local businesses. William Duggan,...