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African’s Small Island Nations and Middle-Income Countries Discuss Development Priorities

African’s Small Island Nations and Middle-Income Countries Discuss Development Priorities

Representatives From African Middle — income countries (MICs) and small island developing States (SIDs) are gathering in Praia, Cape Verde today to draw lessons from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and discuss common priorities under the post-2015 development agenda. SIDs share unique and particular vulnerabilities associated with their geography and climate, while MICs have been […]

How Is the AU Steering Africa Towards a Healthy Blue Economy?

How Is the AU Steering Africa Towards a Healthy Blue Economy?

As African leaders gather at the 25th African Union (AU) Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, they will also be taking an important step in creating much-needed impetus towards an African blue or ocean economy. The start of the summit coincides with World Oceans Day today, 8 June – which this year is themed ‘Healthy oceans, […]

Maasai Women Lead a Solar Revolution

Maasai Women Lead a Solar Revolution

Not long ago, dusk was a time of unease for the people of Magadi, a village in Kenya’s Kajiado County. As the sun set, farmers began worrying about their cattle, easy prey for hyenas and leopards. Children lit fires to finish their schoolwork, filling homes with smoke. Now as darkness falls, lights flick on across […]

EALA Assessing Refugee Situation In Burundi

EALA Assessing Refugee Situation In Burundi

Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) have today started on a three-day country tour specifically aimed at taking in the status of Burundi refugees in Rwanda as the regional assembly moves to seek the appropriate intervention. This comes as the Legislative arm of the Community initiated what it calls a goodwill mission by […]

Conflict-Affected States to Benefit From New IFC and Ecobank Facility

Conflict-Affected States to Benefit From New IFC and Ecobank Facility

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, parent company of the Ecobank Group and leading pan-African full-service banking group, today announced the launch of a $110 million risk-sharing facility. It will increase access to finance for small and medium sized enterprises in fragile and conflict-affected states […]

Zambia Seeks Jobs, Wealth Links

Zambia Seeks Jobs, Wealth Links

ZAMBIA is seeking to form synergies in economic areas with potential for wealth and employment creation, Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba has said. Mr Kalaba said the Government had identified key growth sectors such as agriculture, tourism, construction and mining which are labour-intensive and could create wealth for the people. The minister was speaking in […]

Zanu-PF Hawks Eye US$500 Milion NRZ Loan

Zanu-PF Hawks Eye US$500 Milion NRZ Loan

LOAN facility to the tune of US$500 million being negotiated between the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the troubled National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has been mired in controversy amid indications that State bureaucrats are rubbing their hands in glee as they hope to corruptly benefit from the deal. To get its act […]

Africa Cannot Achieve Sustainable Development While SADR Pleading

Africa Cannot Achieve Sustainable Development While SADR Pleading

Johannesburg — Minister of Culture Ms. Jadija Hamdi said “Africa cannot achieve sustainable development while part of it is still pleading, as is the case of the Sahrawi Republic (SADR).” “A free Africa cannot develop or achieve sustainable development, while part of it still pleading,” stated the Minister, in a speech delivered at the Fourth […]

Commitment to Transparency Without Strong Civil Society – Pipe Dream

Commitment to Transparency Without Strong Civil Society – Pipe Dream

EDITORIAL Transparency rarely transpires with the ruling Revolutionary Democrats. It is a theme where their parlance differs widely from both the common man’s and the intellectual’s. If one is to go by the books of Revolutionary Democracy, transparency seems to mean speaking what you prefer, only when you wish to have a word and the […]

Rwanda Gets US$50 Million for Water Project

Rwanda Gets US$50 Million for Water Project

Rwanda signed two financial agreements in form of grants with the Netherlands worth euro 44.9 million (some $50 million). The money is for supporting Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and to the Netherlands Initiative for Capacity building in Higher Education (NICHE2). The IWRM project will be supported with $34.9million, whereas the NICHE 2 project will […]

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