Development - Page 3
Commission for Africa seeks faster progress
The Commission for Africa has urged donor governments to provide an extra $10 billion-$20 billion a year to help Africa adapt to climate change,...
Nigeria’s population- the ultimate resource, not an economic burden
A recent government- sponsored report warns that Nigeria is teetering on the edge of a demographic disaster as its annual population rate outpaces economic...
The ‘long walk’ to equality for African women
Africa’s political independence was accompanied by a common clarion call to eradicate poverty, illiteracy and disease. Fifty years after the end of colonial, the...
Untangling Central Africa for business
As the proper role of government continue to debated in much of the free world, Africans, and in particular Central Africans can only...
Uganda’s new solar ovens
An immigrant from Uganda now residing in Chicago has used the first portion of a $100,000 business competition prize he won in January to...
The plight of the Tenant in Ghana
Somewhere in a suburb of Accra, one property-owner triples the size of his or her house in three years, with new construction work underway...
Kenya’s rapid population growth and over-stretched resources
The Kenyan population has grown exponentially over the past 10 years reaching 38.6 million, up from the 28.7 million recorded in 1999, according to...
How not to rebrand Nigeria
Nigeria’s information minister Dora Akunyili’s rebranding Nigeria project is one with good intents. Better branding with a little more rigorous positive marketing effectively positions...
Schooling: Trapped in a web of special interests
Governments world-wide are struggling to solve the problem of deficiencies in their schooling systems. Politicians, teachers, educationists, administrators, employers, parents, politicians, policy analysts...
Rwanda attracts mixed feelings over progress
Rwanda’s progress since the genocide of 1994 has been remarkable and is a testament to the people in facing and overcoming staggering challenges, a...
Nigeria: Goodluck Jonathan’s power goals
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has outlined an end to the country's power debacle; proposing 700 kilovolts- an estimated 3.5-billion-dollar electricity grid that will reduce...
Ethiopian government reveals another ambitious economic plan
Ethiopia’s latest five year development strategy will see the laying of a 2,000 kilometer railway network as well as the construction of a huge...
Mobile Phone banking and insurance transforming the world
Global cellular phone coverage has far outpaced the expansion of essential services such as water and electricity, as well as access to financial services....
More expected of a unified Africa after World Cup
It has long been argued that, due to myriad socio-, political- and economic
challenges, the true potential of African business has remained in the dark:
unable...
South Africa’s promising success
I was lucky to attend the 2010 World Cup final in South Africa. Even though the Bafana Bafana were no longer competing, the enthusiasm...
Uganda: AU wants to make a real difference at 15th Summit
The 15th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) has
today opened in Kampala under the theme: "Maternal, Infant and Child
Health and...
Taming the African killer
New UNAids reports show positive sign of HIV/AIDS reduction in Africa. In countries such as Ethiopia, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe the reduction in...
Angola and United States sign Strategic Partnership Dialogue
The United States and Angola have signed the U.S.-Angola Strategic Partnership Dialogue, which formalizes increased bilateral partnerships in energy, security, trade and democracy promotion....
Africa’s growing wealth: The real challenge is cohesion
Africa, in the last decade, has experienced a marked economic growth fueled by emerging economies. South-South cooperation, as well as intra-African trade, has jump-started...
Kenya: U.S. launches East Africa software competition “Apps 4 Africa”
United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale launched the “Apps 4 Africa” contest at the Innovation Hub...
Middle East and North Africa open for telecom business
France Telecom have recently announced its plans to acquire five telecom deals in North Africa and the Middle East and are hoping to complete...
Guinea: The long wait for election results
At fifty-two, Guinea, a novice in what concerns democratic practices, seems to have emerged from Sunday's first free and independent presidential election unscathed after...
Ghana sits on borrowed money & borrowed time
The World Bank Ghana Country Office’s Conference Room was the scene of lively discussions and startling revelations on Friday, 18th June 2010.
It emerged in...
Cameroon establishes its own generic drug production unit
At a time when over seventy per cent of Africans still lack access to treatments against HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, among other diseases, Cameroon...
Uganda: Egypt agrees to Nile Basin hydro power projects?
Egyptian Minister for International Cooperation has revealed that her
Government is committed to developing the resources of the Nile basin for
the benefit of member countries....
Africa-Europe underwater cable: West Africa to get high speed internet
France Telecom and a consortium of 20 members of the telecommunications industry, Saturday, signed an agreement to build an underwater cable between Europe and...
Algeria-Morocco: French car maker Renault moves to north Africa
Renault will open a new manufacturing unit in the northern Moroccan city of Tangiers-Méditerranée, where the French group plans to manufacture up to 400,000...
Water partnership initiative begins in Ethiopia, India, Brazil and Mali
The Columbia Water Center (CWC), based at Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York, is focused on sustainable development projects throughout the world, including...
African economy boosted as AfDB rises to challenge
The 45th summit of the African Development Bank (AfDB) that took place between May 27 to 29 in Côte d'Ivoire presented a rare opportunity...
Africa-France summit: Win-win economic ties in the offing?
In the past decade France has had a dwindling clout of influence in the strategic continent of Africa, a trend that brings the objectives...