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African Agenda

15 Oct 2006

3-5 November 2006, Beijing (China) — Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. The largest and highest-level meeting between Chinese and African leaders since China and Africa started...

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Africa Books

15 Oct 2006

Women and Collective Action in Africa by Filomina Steady (Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK, 2005...

Darfur facing even greater horror

15 Oct 2006

African Union soldiers in Darfur: The African peacekeeping mission is too small to halt the...

African expatriates look homeward

15 Oct 2006

Just a week after defending his doctoral thesis, Hailay Teklehaimanot boarded a flight out of the...

Ghana takes African governance exam

15 Oct 2006

While Ghana is an “oasis of peace and tranquility” in West Africa and is moving increasingly...

Highways link 15 West African countries

15 Oct 2006

It is another busy day at Doxa Worldwide Movers, a freight company in Accra, Ghana. The general...

Africa In Brief

15 Oct 2006

More than a million people in sub-Saharan Africa, ten times more than three years ago, are now...

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Wanted: jobs for Africa’s youth

15 Oct 2006

African leaders are expressing a renewed sense of urgency to tackle youth unemployment on the...

Kenya promotes ‘responsible tourism’

15 Oct 2006

The Severin Sea Lodge, set on the sprawling Bamburi Beach near Mombasa, has 400 rooms overlooking...

What alternatives to oil in Africa?

15 Oct 2006

A gas processing plant in Tanzania: Africa has very large untapped reserves of natural gas, which...

Solar power: cheap energy source for Africa

15 Oct 2006

Kerosene lamps and sore eyes were once routine elements of grading student homework. Solar...