Health

Laying foundation for digital revolution in Africa’s food systems

The Africa Agriculture Status Report says digital technologies will address inefficiency, exclusivity, and unsustainability
SunCulture equips rural farmers with solar-powered irrigation systems.
Climate Change

Start-ups powering up Africa’s solar energy ecosystem

They are increasingly offering advanced energy solutions to the majority of people across Africa facing blackouts, brownouts and poor electricity supply
Economic Development

Transforming4Trade

Working with local governments to change lives for the better
Cover Story

China in the heart of Africa

Opportunities and pitfalls in a rapidly expanding relationship
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Africa's least developed: lands of opportunity

At the UN conference on LDCs, focus moves away from aid
Cover Story

Foreign investors eye African consumers

Beyond minerals, sales and services are drawing more interest
MDGs and beyond

Anchor the MDGs to economic progress, Africans say

Summit hears calls for more job creation, investment
and Katreen Toomel  and 
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Africa needs a strategy for ‘emerging partners’

Report assesses growing ties with China and other Southern economies
and Katreen Toomel  and 
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Africa needs a strategy for ‘emerging partners’

Report assesses growing ties with China and other Southern economies
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Safeguarding Africa’s fishing waters

Regional action needed to stop illegal trawlers off the coast
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Mobilizing money at the grass roots

Self-help groups in Kenya boost domestic savings and investment
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Africa braces for global shockwaves

Growth slows, but Africa’s economies are now more resilient
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Africa secures new Southern partners

Controversy over aid, investment from China and India
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Japan summit promotes ‘vibrant Africa’

More Asian support pledged for anti-poverty Millennium Goals
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Africa seeks fair share of ‘green’ cash

Most climate change projects bypass continent
NEPAD in action

Spurring business to invest in Africa’s future

NEPAD encourages African private sector engagement
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Big leap in China-Africa ties

Beijing offers continent more aid, trade and business
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Focusing aid on Africa’s own priorities

More financing for Millennium Development Goals, but still far to go
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