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Executive Director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) Ann Bernstein recently appeared on the youth dialogue panel at GIBS in partnership with the Tim Modise Show where she spoke on issues of inequality, poverty and the high youth …
Continue readingThe African Union (AU) has launched a pan-African passport. The idea behind the initiative is that the free movement of people will help create jobs and stimulate economic activity. This, in turn, would increase intra-African trade, boosting economic growth. …
Continue readingThe passports will first be given to AU heads of state and government; ministers of foreign affairs; and the permanent representatives of AU member states who are based at the headquarters of the AU in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
For now …
Continue readingThe Africa Visa Openness report, published by the African Development Bank, in March, cast a gloomy image on ability of Africans to travel across the continent.
The report showed that visa policies and regimes have made it difficult for Africans …
Continue readingThe African Union has launched its continental e-passport program Sunday as part of the opening ceremony of the 27th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Kigali, Rwanda. But unless you’re Rwandan President Paul Kagame or Chadian …
Continue readingOn a 26-hour bus ride between Accra and Ouagadougou, Nanjala Nyabola sat next to a Burkinabe woman who had never met a Kenyan before who proceeds to grill her about life in Nairobi. Nyabola wrote about the unique pleasures of …
Continue readingAs the 21st International AIDS Conference gets underway in Durban this week, UNICEF warned that despite remarkable global progress in tackling the HIV/AIDS pandemic, much work remains to be done to protect children and adolescents from infection, sickness and death.…
Continue readingAs Nigeria gradually slides into an economic recession, the effects of her industrial and technological backwardness can vividly be seen as almost nothing works at the moment. There has never been a more required time than now for a technological …
Continue readingCameroon is a growing economy with rapidly increasing electricity demands, particularly in the industrial sector. The utility is currently grappling with a power deficit, and energy efficiency measures are becoming critical for meeting Cameroon’s electricity demand in short to medium …
Continue readingBenin’s water distribution company has received 5.5 billion FCFA loan, approximately 11 million dollars from the West African Development Bank to improve water supply in the country. The agreement between the bank and the National Water Company is expected to …
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