Africa Can Fix The International Criminal Court- Here Is How
The demand of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress that the government should pull out of the International Criminal Court is defeatist, naïve and reactionary, says Professor John Dugard,expert on international law. African states have largely themselves to blame for the fact that the continent has been singled out by the ICC, and rather than […]
Trends Shaping Pharma Industry In Africa
Imagine the future’: DHL’s Annual Regional Life Sciences & Healthcare conference focused on life sciences & healthcare supply chains and enhancing the life sciences and healthcare sector. -Africa highlighted as a market with high potential for life sciences & healthcare companies -As growth in developed markets stagnates, companies in the life sciences and healthcare market […]
Saving Mothers And Babies Advances Africa – Melinda Gates
Sometimes the technical words we use to describe a problem mask its true nature.Such is the case for the hundreds of thousands of women who die during pregnancy or delivery each year across Africa. For them, the official cause of death may be recorded as postpartum hemorrhage or uterine rupture. Similarly, for the alarming number […]
Serious Malnutrition Problem In Madagascar: Some Children Are Shorter Than Their Peers
People in Madagascar are puzzled why some children aren’t getting enough nutrients so are shorter than their peers in an area where there is plenty of food. In a community nutrition centre in a suburb of Antsirabe one of the main towns in the central highlands region of Madagascar two little girls, just under three-and-a-half […]
Africa Is A Rich Continent With Poor People – Dlamini Zuma
AFRICA is a contradictory place being a rich continent with poor people, African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. She also said development will be very slow in Africa if women are left out. During a cockatil held for her at Melia Habana Hotel on Friday evening, Dlamini-Zuma said only skills and education could be an […]
Africa’s Governance Winners, Losers And Surprises
Zimbabwe is one of the African countries where governance has improved most in the four years up to 2014. Senegal just might surge ahead of its African counterparts in the future, to become one of the continent’s powerhouses. Developments in Somalia, long the worst-governed country in Africa, can be described as “a good news story”. […]
Africans Lead With The Highest Academic Achievements In The US Beating Asians
Africans have the highest educational attainment rates of any immigrant group in the United States with higher levels of completion than the stereotyped Asian American model minority. It is not only the first generation that does well, as estimates indicate that a highly disproportionate percentage of black students at elite universities are African or the […]
The Top 10 Fastest Growing Economies In Africa, Number 1 Will Surprise You
Africa is preparing to take its place in a future global economy which will see the earth’s population reach 10 billion by 2050. As people are saying, Africa is where the ball is bouncing right now. The continent is currently experiencing an average economic growth of between 5 to 8% a year. It’s the youngest […]
Four Men Receive Go-Ahead to Sue Tana Governor Hussein Dado
FOUR men have been given the go-ahead to sue Tana River Governor Hussein Dado over the county land board nominees. The four said the law is discriminatory. Justice George Odunga certified the matter urgent and directed the parties to appear before him in Nairobi on January 29. Abubakar Salad, Said Mohammed, Hassan Dokula and Ambassador […]
‘Get Rich Quick’ With Pink Sapphires – For Some
In the early 1990s, only 40 people lived in Ilakaka, a sleepy village off the beaten path in south-west Madagascar more than 700km from Antananarivo, the capital of the rugged Indian Ocean island. The government took little interest in the village; it was no more than a blip on the map. But in 1998 the […]
