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Laying Africa’s roads to prosperity

15 Jan 2009

Building a highway in South Africa: The lack of more modern roads, power networks and other...

Small loans widen horizons for the poor

15 Jan 2009

Signing up for a loan with a community group’s microcredit programme in Kenya.Photograph: Panos...

Africa braces for global shockwaves

15 Jan 2009

A trader on the Nairobi Stock Exchange: Since African capital markets are only marginally...

Out of crisis, opportunity?

15 Jan 2009

A trading house in Johannesburg, South Africa: As the only African “emerging market” at the Group...

Africa Books

15 Jan 2009

** PLEASE NOTE:BOOKS ARE NOT DIRECTLY AVAILABLE FROM AFRICA RENEWAL,THEY MUST BE OBTAINED DIRECTLY...

Banking on African women

15 Jan 2009

A fabric seller in Angola: Women own nearly half of all enterprises in Africa,but have the hardest...

Africa Agenda

15 Jan 2009

26 January – 3 February 2009, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) — African Union Summit. On the theme “...

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Tackling piracy off African shores

15 Jan 2009

A relief ship delivering food to Somalia is protected by a Dutch warship (in the background) to...

Africa Watch

15 Jan 2009

A village in the eastern Congo hit by fighting in November:A quarter-million civilians have been...

Trading from Cape to Cairo

15 Jan 2009

South African President Kgalema Motlanthe:“The time has come to enlarge our markets.”Photograph:...