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AfDB: Statement by the African Development Bank, regional multilateral development bank, Governors support a successful African Development Fund replenishment (15/05/2013)

STATEMENT

During this important meeting, many issues were raised concerning the impact the ADF is having in our countries and its role in the transformation of our economies. The Bank for instance, has...

Global Employment Trends for Youth: A generation at risk (May 2013)

EMPLOYMENT

Two thirds of working age youth in some developing countries are either unemployed or trapped in low-quality jobs, according to the International Labour Organisation Global Employment Trends for...

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...

PAP: Statement by the The Pan-African Parliament, enters strategic partnership with the African Peer Review Mechanism (08/05/2013)

STATEMENT

The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) has committed to a partnership with the Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), which will see PAP allocate a day during each of its...

Resource deals audit overshadows Liberia anti-graft push

RESOURCES

Almost all the $8-billion worth of resource contracts signed by Liberia since 2009 have violated its laws, according to a draft audit report commissioned by the government, casting doubt on...

Failure to reach election agreement stirs up violence

ELECTIONS

Failure by Guinea's politicians to reach agreement for a long-delayed legislative poll is stirring up tribal violence, jeopardising economic gains and raising fears that the military could once...

Piecing it together: The status of health systems in post-conflict African countries

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Africa has been plagued by conflicts since the colonial era, and long thereafter. In the period between the 1960s and the 1990s, 48 African countries experienced about 80 violent changes of...

Failure to protect: Peacekeepers and the protection of civilians

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Nearly a month after launching its military intervention in Mali, France informed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that it would seek a United Nations (UN) force to replace the French-led...

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...

Daily podcast – April 16, 2013.

PODCAST

A senior official said on Monday that the World Bank's political risk guarantee agency hopes that with a new insurance facility it can help attract more companies into conflict-hit states early on...

The wealth that lies beneath African soil

WERKSMANS ATTORNEYS

The numerous renewable energy, economic and infrastructure developments on the African continent make it an attractive investment destination. All that is required to take successful African...

SA ICT sector ranked 70 on WEF index

ICT

South Africa ticked up two notches in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) latest Global Information Technology Report of which the Networked Readiness Index was central; but a number of factors...

IFP: Statement by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Inkatha Freedom Party President, online letter (09/04/2013)

STATEMENT

Astronomers tell us that when a star dies, we may still, for thousands of years, see the light it put out while it was living. Yesterday, one of the brightest stars in the firmament of the...

Mali’s July elections: Between democracy and war

CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE

Traditionally, the international community has regarded Mali as a success story and a pillar of democracy in the unstable region of West Africa. Since its first multi-party elections in 1992, Mali...

39% of sub-Saharan Africans lack access to clean drinking water – report

Water

A lack of progress in improving global access to water, sanitation and hygiene is inhibiting progress in economic and human development – particularly in child health, nutrition and education –...

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