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Election violence in Kenya, a Women’s rights crisis in South Africa, various military conflicts...
Of all the tales my grandmother told, one always stays with me. It was...
A little over one month ago, the world of literature lost a legend. The...
“This story is really a story of the success of the government and a story of a visionary national leadership.” These are the words of the Rwandan Minister of Health, Dr. Agnes Binagwaho. Rwanda has come a long way since the genocide which ended in 1994. In just ten years, it has managed to [...]
There has been a lot of movement in South Africa’s renewable energy sector due to South Africa’s green policy and government contracts to produce renewable energy. In SA’s Integrated Resource Plan, at least 42% of new energy generation must be renewable energy. The Renewable Energy Independent Producers (IPP) program will run through 2020 with an [...]
A hybrid value chain is “A business model connecting the strengths, variances of the business world and the citizen sector world to generate and social impact while doing business,” says Ashoka senior change leader, Stephanie Schmidt. There are many untapped markets in various sectors on the continent and hybrid value chains can assist companies in [...]
Sixty-nine percent of the people in the world infected...
The Lagos version is the first African city edition...
Africa has been one of the fastest-growing tourism regions...
Local World Heritage site, The Cradle of Humankind, has been...
1. Background The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 2008 put youth unemployment globally at 12.7% as against the 2007 pre-recession figure of 11.7%. In real numbers that is a jump from 70.5 million unemployed youths to 75.1 million. These...
The size of South Africa’s black middle class has more than doubled in less than a decade, according to a new study from the University of Cape Town. This emerging class is a boon to the growing economy,...
A Malawian women empowerment NGO known as the Center for Alternatives for Victimized Women and Children has been working to help poor, widowed and abused women become economically independent through village savings and loans programs. According to NGO officials, under the...
GOMA- Entrepreneur Gilbert Makelele wants armed groups in his part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to wake up and smell the coffee. “You should tell the population to grow coffee, as it’s the best way for them...
In Hawassa City in southern Ethiopia, 250 kilometres from the capital Addis Ababa, 24-year-old Mitike Paulos, her younger...
The United Nations special envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region, Mary Robinson, said this is a moment of...
The Severin Sea Lodge, set on the sprawling Bamburi Beach near Mombasa, has 400 rooms overlooking the Indian...
Africa is pulling out all the stops in its race to curb the AIDS pandemic by 2015, a...

