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Women and girls’ rights: The battle of formally abducted girls in northern Uganda

This paper explores the grave human rights violations which women and girls suffered during situations of fierce militarisation between the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) and the Lords...

WTO: Pascal Lamy: Address by the World Trade Organisation Director-General, on how Africa is the growth continent for the 21st century, University of Nairobi, Kenya (22/05/2013)

Topics

Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for inviting me to address you this morning at the University of Nairobi. This institution is a fundamental cornerstone of one of Kenya’s greatest assets: the...

The role of entrepreneurship and innovation in improving the health status of Sub-Saharan Africa

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

In the last 10 years or so, Africa has experienced a wave of innovative efforts in the technology, agriculture and services sectors, which have immensely improved the lives of Africans. For...

The future of intrastate conflict in Africa: More violence or greater peace? (May 2013)

CONFLICT

This paper analyses future trends for intrastate conflict in Africa up to 2050 using the International Futures (IFs) model. After reviewing the main post-Cold War patterns of conflict and...

Not ‘Neet’

REAL ECONOMY: YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

Sadly, South Africa is no stranger to the scourge of youth unemployment. But the ‘Neets’ (not in employment, education or training) problem is now receiving heightened international attention....

From fear to hope – Getting it right in Somalia

African Development Bank

It has been two decades of mayhem, chaos and bloodletting in Somalia. A child born at the onset of the Somali crisis is now twenty one. Somalia has still a long way to go: the Al Shabaab are...

A new voice: The role of Africa’s youth in electoral democracies

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Africa has had a long, faltered journey with regard to establishing democracies, as many nations have suffered through decades of autocratic rulers and repeated coups d'état. Recently, Africa...

African soil – when the going gets tough, privatisation gets going

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Privatisation in today’s world is a common word, but its impact, especially in regions like Africa, is less known. With increasing globalisation, the scope to privatise enterprises has increased...

Kenya chief justice denies taking bribe in presidential petition

BRIBERY

Kenya's chief justice on Monday denied accusations that he had received bribes to rule in favour of President Uhuru Kenyatta in a petition challenging the outcome of last month's election that was...

Mind the Gap

REAL ECONOMY: MINING & POVERTY

Although the outlook for economic growth across sub-Saharan Africa remains robust for the forthcoming three years, a new World Bank analysis has put its finger on a key policy problem now...

DLA Piper boosts offering in East Africa

DLA Piper Africa Group

DLA Piper today announces that senior international energy, infrastructure, and finance lawyer Alexander Sarac has relocated to Tanzania. Alexander will be on international secondment to IMMMA...

Daily podcast – April 23, 2013.

PODCAST

Communications Minister Dina Pule on Monday shot back at reports published in the Sunday Times, claiming that the “persistent smear campaign” against her was a result of a failed blackmail...

Value of fraud in Africa doubles despite decline in occurrence – KPMG

CORRUPTION

Despite a decline in the number of fraud cases reported in Africa, the value of the reported cases more than doubled during the transition from the first to the second half of 2012, audit, tax and...

AfDB: Statement by the African Development Bank, regional multilateral development bank, reinforces regional integration support with USD 232.5-million for Tanzania-Kenya road financing (17/04/2013)

STATEMENT

The African Development Bank has approved two loans totalling USD 232.5 million for the 157.5-kilometre road project from Arusha to Holili in Tanzania, and Taveta to Voi in Kenya, in an effort to...

African countries urged to rethink use of mineral revenues for poverty reduction

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

The outlook for economic growth across sub-Saharan Africa remained robust for the forthcoming three years, but a new World Bank analysis shows that poverty is not declining at a similarly robust...

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