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Boosting domestic savings in Africa
15 Oct 2008Regular banks cater only to a fifth of all Africans. If they can better tap into the vast pool of financial resources now outside the formal banking system, more money would be available for...
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Africa Watch
15 Oct 2008UNIFEMMore women elected in Africa Women were the big winners in Angola’s 5 September...
Africa secures new Southern partners
A Chinese foreman walks past a construction site in Guinea-Bissau: China is financing...
New trade pacts threaten regional unity
A clothing factory in Cape Town, South Africa. Several governments in Southern Africa worry that...
Africa’s partners must ‘walk the talk’
President Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania), chair of African Union.Photograph: UN Photo / Erin Siegal
Africa Books
15 Oct 2008** PLEASE NOTE:BOOKS ARE NOT DIRECTLY AVAILABLE FROM AFRICA RENEWAL,THEY MUST BE OBTAINED DIRECTLY...
Africa Agenda
15 Oct 200829–30 October 2008, Kigali (Rwanda) — East Africa International Business Forum 2008. Organized by...
Powering up Africa’s economies
A poor neighbourhood in Cape Town, South Africa, in the shadow of a high-tension power line:...
A harvest of hope for African farmers
Thanks to low-priced fertilizer and other farming inputs provided by the government,Malawi’s...
Closing Ghana’s national poverty gap
Many of the women at the workshop of the Pagsung shea butter association are in their forties and...