Experts at the Renaissance Capital’s 15th Annual Investment Conference in Moscow have stated that there is not a crisis in the oil market as prices are set to revert to $80- $100 per barrel. Meanwhile, the growing middle class in Asia and Africa and limited supply over time with both supply and demand shocks recently coming [...]
Farmers and governments need to improve water management as a UN report has found that climate change will have a significant impact on water supplies for agriculture. The report, ‘Climate Change, Water and Food Security’ by the Food and Agriculture Organization, warned that temperatures could increase by an estimated 4 degrees Celsius by 2080 and [...]
As a guest speaker at the Atlantic Council, President Ali Bongo of Gabon took the opportunity to address the Council about his social project, ‘Gabon emergent’, promoting growth in Gabon. As the Atlantic Council and, in particular, the Michael S. Ansari Africa Centre, a body which aims to transform the approach of European and American [...]
New Tuberculosis (TB) drug highlights potential challenges when given to Gambian infants as it was less effective in stimulating an immune response. The research which was published in Science Translational Medicine was conducted as part of trials to help improve protection against TB. The purpose of the study was to assess whether this new drug [...]
Farmers and governments need to improve water management as a UN report has found that climate change will have a significant impact on water supplies for agriculture. The report , ‘Climate Change, Water and Food Security’ by the Food and Agriculture Organization, warned that temperatures could increase by an estimated 4 degrees Celsius by 2080 [...]
It is graduation season, and one recent graduate, a Ford Foundation International Fellow, who recently completed his International Legal Studies Program at American University’s Washington College of Law, recently stood taller than all the other graduates, at least in my mind, as he received his Master of Laws degree. However, in reality; disabled Ugandan lawyer, [...]
A report by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has suggested that the Democratic Republic of Congo might be on the verge of collapse, as widespread disaffection for President Joseph Kabila grows. Endemic corruption and the failure to bring broad and sustained economic growth have led to the grave possibility, the report predicts, of violence [...]
As the G8 pledges to support Egypt and Tunisia on their way towards sustainable democracies, the Group of Eight is being criticised for losing credibility and ignoring poverty in the Sub-Saharan region. The world’s wealthiest nations promised to provide US$40 billion for the two North African countries during the G8 Summit in Deauville, France, sending [...]
The country is to receive US$ 42 million in support to the agricultural sector which could potentially benefit more than 200,000 farmers. The assistance is provided by the World Bank and the Government of Japan and is meant to boost agriculture production and the sales of agricultural produce. The support for two major projects it [...]
As many former British colonies around the world continue to celebrate 50 years or more of independence, a group of Commonwealth academics gathered at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London recently to debate the merits and faults of the so called “Westminster Model”, the basis at the time of the newly emerging countries’ constitutions [...]
