The International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank Group, has produced a business report on what will soon become Africa’s newest country, South Sudan. When South Sudan is officially recognised as its own entity on 9th of July – following January’s decision vote to secede from the north of the country – it will [...]
The multiple challenges affecting world forests will dominate the High Level Summit on Tropical Forestry, which will be held in the capital Brazzaville from May 31- June 3, 2011. The Summit of Heads of State and Government from the Amazon, Congo and Borneo-Mekong Forest Basins will be attended by countries from Africa, Latin America and [...]
It can be said, without fear of being contradicted that the public does not fully appreciate the crucial role women play in enhancing food security for households, particularly in developing countries. This could probably be attributed to our total failure to understand the critical importance of the work that women do in agriculture, in spite [...]
More private investment in the energy sector in West Africa is needed if the region is to achieve energy security and achieve climate objectives. The choice facing West Africa, as in the case of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, with regard to energy is stark. If the region is to speed up its development, it [...]
It is still early on a hot and dusty Wednesday morning, but the temperature is already above 35 degrees centigrade. Residents say that it rained just a month ago, although there is no evidence of this. Plants have shed their leaves and all the green vegetation has now changed colour. Seven-year-old Moli Kituvi strides with [...]
South Africa is joining Brazil, Russia, India and China in the BRIC group of economies – which, from 14 April 2011, will be the BRICS group of economies. Since hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2010 – an event that surprised the country’s many critics with its success – South Africa has scored another goal [...]
President Ali Bongo Odimba was in London for the newspaper, Times CEO Summit on Africa on the 21st and 22nd of March. He was one of the keynote speakers along with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame and British Foreign Secretary, William Hague held at the two day event at the recently reopened Savoy Hotel. In [...]
With the passing of International Women’s Day, yesterday March 8th, the on-going fight for gender equality across the globe is something that has been highlighted a lot recently. Despite the well-documented effects of gender discrimination on women themselves, such as abuse and poverty, the ripples of this issue reach far out into the wider community. [...]
Catching Up: What LDCs can do, and how others can help is Professor Paul Collier’s latest offering to help the lower rung of the development ladder. The award-winning author of The Bottom Billion, present a practical agenda on how Least Developed Countries (LDCs) can obtain and sustain a successful rate of growth in order to [...]
It has become known as the second scramble for Africa. Multinational agribusiness corporations and rich countries lacking in agriculture are buying up Africa. Since the ‘08 food crisis, the acquisition of land in poor countries has accelerated worldwide. Data is unreliable. Governments are unwilling to disclose details and large deals reported in the media often [...]
