Business Impatient With Leaders On Nepad
African politicians urge investment, but corporate captains want stability, accountability first. It was only a matter of time.
Africa’s Failure To Grow A Global ‘Tragedy’
Study highlights constructive ways to break continent’s stubborn economic malaise.
Raking the Muck in Dakar: The Battle of a City’s Teeming Dump
The stench wafts for miles around. Nonetheless, people of all ages, mostly men, scurry around the Mbeubeuss dump near Dakar, the capital of Senegal, salvaging anything that can be sold.
AIDS Ravages Labour Force
Study of 50 countries indicates high cost of inaction to private sector; Africa worst hit an estimated 36.5 million people engaged in some form of economic activity worldwide are HIV-positive, resulting in an annual loss of $25 billion in productivity – twice the yearly gross domestic product of Kenya.
Africa – Think Beyond Primary Education
Education is a universal right, a prerequisite for democracy, a path out of material and spiritual poverty.
New Strategy for Tracking the Epidemic
In June 2004 the World Health Organisation and UNAIDS released a policy statement that cautiously endorsed a new approach to HIV testing in hopes of increasing the number of people worldwide who know their status.
A Shot Put to Governance
Lessons in achievement from the Olympic arenas of Athens. The world’s greatest sporting spectacle, the Olympic games, is a testament to the power of money, planning and sports science.
SADC Nails Flag to Polls
New guidelines set higher standards for the way campaigns and elections are conducted.
Challenging Norms, Changing Practices
THREE days after the August 30 UN deadline lapsed for Khartoum to intervene in the humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region, the secretary-general’s special envoy, Jan Pronk, told the Security Council that the government had failed to disarm the Janjaweed rebels or halt their campaign of violence against civilians. Now what?
In Pursuit of the Record
Freedom of information laws are proliferating in Africa, but access remains poor