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New CEO Vuyani Jurana has made a strong case to wind up SAA. In a presentation to Parliament’s standing committee on finance late last year, Jurana listed results and reasons for SAA’s crisis that would send any private company straight …
Continue readingLinda speaking at the SFL West African Regional Conference 2016 in Ibadan, Nigeria.
Poverty, literacy rates, and youth unemployment are part of a long list of Africa’s biggest challenges. But at the top of this list is corruption. It sweeps …
Continue readingIn a bid to revive and launch the national carrier, Uganda Airlines, Uganda seeks to raise $388 million.
Uganda Airlines will be launched by September following the Cabinet approval of a blueprint last year that stated how the airline could …
Continue readingLast year I had the pleasure of attending the Young African Scholars Colloquium, which took place in Nairobi in October. It was a new initiative of Network for a Free Society(NFS), generously supported by the Goodrich Foundation, to give
…President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila will not contest in elections when they are next held, the information minister Lambert Mende has told the Voice of America channel.
According to him, Kabila intends to …
Continue readingPresident Muhammadu Buhari has signed bilateral air service agreements Algeria and the Republic of Congo. Similar agreements were signed with China, Qatar, and Singapore.
The signing was confirmed in a terse statement by Mr. Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu.
“Following the …
Continue readingAfrican Development Bank (AfDB) is set to increase its loans to Nigeria by over $2 billion in 2018, as well as invest in Africa’s biggest economy’s energy, infrastructure and agriculture sectors.
Nigeria seeks to reduce its dependency on crude exports …
Continue readingAngolan President, Joao Lourenco has made another dramatic move against his predecessor, Jose Eduardo dos Santos by dismissing the former head of state son Jose Filomeno dos Santos from the head of the country’s $5 billion sovereign wealth fund.
This …
Continue readingWhen the Arab Spring broke out this time in 2011, bringing down the long-standing regimes in Tunisia and Egypt amongst others, many wondered whether it would be followed by an African Spring south of the Sahara.
None followed. This was …
Continue readingI have long argued (particularly in a 2007 WSJ article ‘Curing the Diseases of Poverty’) that unfortunately for us in poor nations, these health officials are missing the forest for the trees. Inadequate infrastructure, lack of medical professionals, under-funding and …
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