... assistance to reduce hunger and boost democracy building living standards Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank and Ban Ki Moon, secretary general of the United Nations, have launched a plan that expands the strategically significant “Horn of Africa” to encompass 18 percent of the total continent.
Their recent trip to Addis Ababa and Mogadishu to buzz up the project was reported with optimism by major western media and assets.
Another iffy “start up” from the UN and the ...
The Social Angle of Russian Business in Africa
Overcoming poverty in Africa through the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 is a key task for the international community. Establishing a new agenda for development after 2015 requires the expansion and diversification of ...
The number of Ebola hemorrhagic fever victims is rising with every passing day. According to the WHO data, there are more than 13,7 thousand people infected by the virus. We asked experts from African countries to share their opinion on whether the Ebola outbreak can unite mankind.
Okolo Ben-Simon
, Executive Director of the African Centre for Human Security, Peace and Sustainable Development (Nigeria) and
Tity Agbahey
, Junior Fellow from ...
... speech is that it’s not over.
German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble has voiced major concerns over the future of the Euro. Open season for George Soros and his hedge fund and arbitrage friends.
A three front war. Ukraine. ISIS-Middle East. Africa.
Beyond the focus of the Obama speech, the entire continent of Africa remains a region of escalating conflict. The World Bank estimates that there are 3 million refugees displaced by wars.
The United Nations has just authorized a shoot to kill ...
From the OAU to the AU
From the OAU to the AU
The predecessor of the African Union has done much to eliminate the colonial and racist regimes on the continent, primarily through the Liberation Committee that rendered not only political but also practical support to national liberation movements waging armed struggles. ...
To BBBEE or not to BBBEE
After Nelson Mandela, the most prominent opponent of apartheid in South Africa, passed away last year, the world has again turned its attention to Pretoria's programs aimed at protecting the rights of the previously oppressed segment of the country's population. In reality, the lofty ideals of racial equality and justice ...
... European Union (France, Germany, the UK, Spain, and Italy) take the 66 percent of international arms transfer in the period of 2009~2013 (Siemon T. Wezeman, 2014). Compared with the 2004~2008, the percentage of arms importers of major weapon regional, Africa increase from 7% to 9% in the same period (see the below). As recipient, the poorly limited defense budget in African continent, will acting as the main obstacle against arms import to the predictable. For the reason of energy supply, geostrategic ...
Why Africa is Important for the EU
With the 4th EU-Africa Summit just finishing in Brussels, the time is ripe for an analysis of the key problems within the partnership as well as for coming up with ideas about how they might be resolved. Here we take a ...
... culture: the so-called “old” Commonwealth that was legally established in 1931 with the Statute of
Westminster approved
by the British Parliament. The metropolis and its dominions – Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa – gained obvious economic and political benefits from their membership of the British Commonwealth, and took advantage of a range of imperial preferences and the British pound.
Expanding membership undermined its continuity: a clear divide ...
... production of uranium comes from mines located in Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia.
Even with French president Francoise Hollande sitting at 18 percent popularity in the polls France has conducted interventions in its former colonies; the Central African Republic, Mali and Niger all of which contain uranium deposits.
China has become the new player in the club and its presence is being felt along Africa’s Uranium Road, the meridian that stretches from the Western Sahara to Sudan, where ...
