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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reported in 2008 that “Africa is losing more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of forest every year – twice the world’s average...
You have probably heard this before: green industries will steal jobs from other sectors. Superficial logic invites superficial conclusions. But here is an exploration that may help to deepen the...
The World Bank expects South Africa’s growth rate to recover to 3.5% in 2011, on the back of continued consumer spending and a recovery in private investment spending, which contracted sharply...
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an important investment destination not only for multi-national companies but for companies within the region.
There is no question that the debate about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is intensifying – not only in South Africa, but also in the rest of the world. As some interested South Africans...
Leaders of the Group of Eight began gathering in France on Thursday to endorse aid to new Arab democracies, but wrangling among Western and developing economies over who runs the IMF may take up...
Chad's President Idriss Deby won a presidential election by a landslide, according to official results released on Monday, but the outcome was rejected by the opposition as illegitimate after a...
Alternative forms of energy, including solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power, are used frequently throughout East Africa. In Kenya, for example, an estimated 60% of generated electricity...