Equatorial Guinea: UNESCO’s Shameful Award
(Paris, July 16, 2012) – UNESCO’s decision to issue a controversial prize sponsored by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea is disappointing...
Dr. Nkosana Moyo: “I think women need to turn on the screws when necessary”
Lagos, Nigeria - During The Second African Women Economic Summit will take place in Lagos, Nigeria 12- 14 July, Afrik.tv did an interview of...
Nigeria: the second edition of African Women Economic Summit
The city of Lagos, Nigeria is hosting the second edition of African Women Economic Summit on July 12-14th. Supported by the African Development Bank,...
African women’s economic summit opens in Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria - The Second African Women Economic Summit officially opened in Lagos, Nigeria on Friday with a call on more decision makers to...
African Women Economic Summit 2012
Lagos, Nigeria – The Second African Women Economic Summit will take place in Lagos, Nigeria 12- 14 July. The event is hosted by New...
South Africa: an efficient product to combat the malaria
The fight against malaria remains the major concern of all Africans worried by the devastating epidemic momentum in the continent that is feverishly seeking...
Dr. Landry Signé bestowed the Outstanding Visionary Leadership Award
On Saturday, May 19, 2012, Dr. Landry Signé was bestowed the Outstanding Visionary Leadership Award by The African Network (TAN), a Silicon Valley based...
South Africa: A dish way to cook in compliance with Kyoto protocol
Sun Fire Solutions presents a range on innovative Solar Lighting systems especially suitable to African not easy conditions of life. What is most important...
On the Charles Taylor verdict: a valuable precedent or blundering Western meddling?
A judge from the tiny Samoan archipelago made history last week by declaring that Charles Taylor, the deposed president of the West African state...
Struggling for Democracy in Guinea-Bissau: Drug Trafficking, Military and Politics
Repeated coups, military rebellions and political assassinations have transformed Guinea-Bissau, the new hub for cocaine trafficking (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) into...
Libya threatened by the Somalia Syndrome
The President of the Libyan supreme authority, Mustafa Abdul Jalil one of the credible personalities of TNC, is threatening to resign, following the Friday’s...
Prices, profits and planning – the teaching of Hayek
The insights of Frederick Hayek concerning thedevelopment of modern human society have contributed greatly to our understanding of the relationshipbetween law, economics and politics.
They...
African Farmers are Desperate for Change
The use of GM (genetically modified) food crops is a highly emotive issue. What should influence the debate between those who support these developments...
Inch’Allah Opposition delivers Cameroon to Biya on a Platter of silver
Nothing about Biya came as a surprise prior or during this year’s presidential election – Last minute announcement of election date, constitution of the...
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...
Wangari Maathai, the woman of trees, dies
Kenya’s Wangari Muta Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmentalist and human rights activist, died 25 September at age 71. A mother of...
Alassane Ouattara : “The priority is economic recovery”
On the sidelines of the 66th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire spoke about the...
Labour: Time for SA’s Government to Start Listening
The FMF published an article more than a year ago saying that it was crisis time in South Africa. The country’s greatest crisis lies...
Nigeria’s Grave Numbers
Nigeria is supposedly the fourth fastest growing economy in the world. This is an assertion that was made last March. That Ghana is set...
2011 Presidential Election in Cameroon: Context, Risk and Conflict Prevention
Recently, several conflicts occurred in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast because of election results that were not accepted by the voters. As a result...
The Market Economy and its Enemies
Human beings are driven to improve their socio-economic circumstances. They utilise whatever resources of material and intellectual capital they have to address their condition...
Mauritius: where they don’t kill the geese that lay the golden eggs
James Meade, British recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, reported in 1961 that Mauritius faced a bleak future. The country was reliant on...
Equatorial Guinea: Abuses Ahead of AU Summit
Equatorial Guinea’s government has spent lavishly on diplomatic accommodations while neglecting the rights of the country’s poor in the lead-up to hosting the African...
Equatorial Guinea deletes German TV crew’s footage
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of a German television crew and the destruction of their footage by authorities in Equatorial Guinea.
On...
New Winds of Change Blowing in the Developing World
The developing world has long lent itself to political soundbites, often with a tone of despair. It wasn’t too long ago that Henry Kissinger...
Royal Wedding article from Al Jazeera’s wedding correspondent
In his Confessions St Augustine describes how, when studying in Rome, he was persuaded by friends to go to the Colloseum to watch the...
The Nigerian Youth Service- A Tribute to many ‘Unknown Soldiers’
I do not want to write about the Nigerian elections. A million words have been written already . There's a glut of articles on...
End game in Côte d’Ivoire marks a new beginning
The arrest of former Côte d’Ivoire president Laurent Gbagbo on 11 April after a bloody weeklong battle in the heart of Abidjan has been...
The Global Fund Welcomes U.S. Budget Allocation of US$1.05 billion for 2011
Geneva – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria warmly welcomed passage of the continuing resolution for the Fiscal Year 2011 U.S....
The Syndrome of the Talkative in African Politics
19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche advanced a dualistic view of the human condition by arguing that mankind was endowed with two types of...