Tag Archives: Africa

Christian Aid reports: Africa can get the energy it needs without addi...

November 10, 2011 no comments

Sub-Saharan Africa has massive potential to generate clean energy that could help lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty without exacerbating climate change, a new Christian Aid report sa...

Transparency International claims that three African leaders own estat...

November 8, 2011 no comments

Transparency International is a global civil society organisation that is leading the fight against corruption around the world and brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the...

Negotiators fail to agree on conditions for large-scale land investmen...

October 31, 2011 1 comment

FREETOWN (IPS) – The adoption of international guidelines to regulate so-called land grabs has been pushed to next year after negotiators failed to agree on conditions for large-scale land investment...

Uganda: In the land of human sacrifice

October 26, 2011 1 comment

In and out of Kampala, Uganda’s capital, the City, supposed to radiate enlightenment to some of Uganda’s dark ancient cultural practices, has failed to do so. The City is entrapped in obscurity. “The...

Malawi is Africa’s emerging cultural tourism gem

October 15, 2011 no comments

Lilongwe – Wildlife conservation professional, Ton de Rooy, says Malawi is emerging as one of Africa’s tourism gems. De Rooy, the Managing Director of Robin Pope Safaris and a trustee for the L...

Harmonizing the unrealistic education system

October 10, 2011 no comments

The mass failure of Junior High School students at this year’s national examination, a worsening trend over the past couple of years, has sent educationists, parents, the mass media and Accra scrambl...

Africa continues to be denied access to markets – Doha trade neg...

October 9, 2011 no comments

Geneva (IPS) – The poorest countries in Africa are not merely the victims of natural calamities. They are also ravaged by the continued denial of market access as promised in the Doha trade negotiati...

Democracy or prosperity which should come first in Africa’s bid for ec...

October 1, 2011 1 comment

As Africa’s democracy gradually evolves, the arguments are whether Africa should concentrate on creating prosperity first and then grow its democracy later or build up its democracy first and then us...

The international community and Africa’s democracy construct

August 27, 2011 no comments

More than ever as Africa gets entwined in the international system, the international community is becoming increasingly part of Africa’s development. Ever more, the international community includes ...

Europe is not doing enough to help drought in Africa

July 18, 2011 no comments

Andrew Mitchell, Britain s International Development Secretary, has called on rich European countries to do more to help some 10 million people who need aid because of a devastating drought in the Ho...

Is Africa becoming a test lab for mobile phone development?

May 19, 2011 no comments

In my course on technology, development and Africa, a fine undergraduate student, David Metoyer, wrote this about the activities in Africa of Vodaphone, one of the world’s most significant mobil-tele...

China says its aid to Africa is not aimed at grabbing the continent...

April 26, 2011 no comments

Suggestions that its burgeoning foreign aid to Africa is driven by its interest in the impoverished continent’s rich natural resources, has been slammed by China. It says that it helps poorer c...

A timeline of African Independence

April 24, 2011 no comments

Africa has experienced a lot since it started gaining independence from its colonial masters. Because of the problems the continent has faced since independence, it has been difficult to shake-off it...

Nigeria can still hold credible elections and must not let Africa down...

April 4, 2011 no comments

ABUJA, April 4, 2011 (AFP) – Nigeria can still hold credible polls despite postponing them amid organisational chaos, and must do so because Africa cannot afford another flawed vote, ex-Botswan...

Kadhafi still have fans in Africa

March 19, 2011 no comments

DAKAR, March 19, 2011 (AFP) – Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi may be facing one of his most dangerous hours, threatened with Western air strikes, but south of the Sahara his quest for continental ...

Corruption will continue unabated in Africa unless standard of living ...

December 17, 2010 1 comment

It is indeed an illusion for anyone including USAID, DFID, the United Nations and all its agencies – the World Bank, IMF, NGO’s and other stakeholders, to believe that corruption will end acros...