Last month’s announcement of a partnership between Africa richest man Aliko Dangote and private equity fund Blackstone Group to invest to the tune of $5 billion exclusively in energy infrastructure.
Despite being in the front lines of trade in Africa, African women are constrained by policies and other harsh socioeconomic realities. Daily, millions of women in Africa are engaged in.
A new drive to end child marriage is underway in Tanzania. In a country where almost two out of five girls will be married before their 18th birthday, the “Child.
President Mulatu Teshome of Ethiopia has expressed satisfaction at the country’s economic success, noting that a stable political environment and enabling investment atmosphere is attracting a pool of international firms.
A £6.5 million ($10.8 million) emergency Ebola research fund has been released by the UK’s Department for International Development and medical research charity, the Wellcome Trust to boost efforts in.
INTERVIEW Washington, DC —John Dramani Mahama, one of the leaders taking part in the U.S.-Africa Summit earlier this month, became president of Ghana in July 2012 following the sudden death of.
The US-Africa summit to be convened by President Barack Obama in August is set to proceed without Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. African leaders are facing a dilemma over whether to.
Bill Gates is no stranger to honorary degrees. In 2007 he even got an honorary doctorate from Harvard, where he had dropped out as an undergraduate years three decades earlier..
Few days ago the world celebrated Nelson Mandela, a man whose life personalises the tireless struggle against and victorious defeat of racial discrimination and inequality. Born 96 years ago, Madiba by.
The French president has begun a three-day visit to West Africa likely to be dominated by security threats in the region and fostering economic ties. On his first stop in.
