Intra-Africa trade: Going beyond political commitments
Progress will come when agreements are implemented
Latest in Tag: Africa Renewal Highlight
Latest in Tag: Africa Renewal
In sub-Saharan Africa, primary school teacher shortage on the horizon
Analysts believe this rate could enable the country to meet the challenges of a future shortage. Cameroon, Namibia and Lesotho have also taken steps to increase the number of teachers.
Rwanda remembers
How private groups and government try to heal the wounds of genocide
Rising from the ashes
Twenty years after genocide, Rwanda makes huge development strides
Slow but steady walk to democracy
Despite challenges, Mauritania’s democracy deepens
No longer a curse?
African leaders take action that may transform mining
As it plans its own future, Africa engages with the world
Tim Wall takes a closer look at issues facing the continent, including climate change, immigration, financial system stability and development models, and how they are being tackled
Big dreams for Rwanda’s ICT sector
Success story is grabbing global attention
Despite climate change, Africa can feed Africa
By Richard Munang and Jesica Andrews Climate change comes with never-before-experienced impacts. For example, crop yields and growing seasons will decrease even as changing rain patterns will worsen people’s access to water. Yet Africa’s population is projected to reach 2 billion in less than 37 years, and in 86 years three out of every four …
Boosting African farm yields
By Michael Fleshman For tens of millions of people in rural Africa, life has gotten harder in recent years. Reliant on erratic rains, working exhausted soil and hobbled by decades of underinvestment and neglect, many have sunk deeper into poverty as agriculture — the mainstay of the region’s economy — continues to face neglect. A …
Mandela’s struggles for peace and justice in Africa
By Lansana Gberie On 27 November 1995, a calm voice issued this jarring statement on the BBC: “Abacha is sitting on a volcano. And I am going to explode it underneath him.” It belonged to Nelson Mandela. He was 77, and had already been president of South Africa for a year. Mandela was referring to …
African philanthropists push for prosperity
By Kingsley Ighobor Last July, US President Barack Obama set the spark for his Power Africa programme that will help sub-Saharan African countries build power production and transmission projects and double their access to electricity. President Obama announced in Cape Town, South Africa, his plan to mobilise $16bn for investments that will generate 10,000 megawatts …