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Africa's quest for a cashless economy gains momentum

Insufficient financial inclusion, unbanked masses and financial literacy are increasingly attracting investors When she needed to transfer money to a friend in a faraway village last March, Mouna Ahmed, a gender equality activist in Liberi…

Published: 30 May 2017 at 21:28hrs | 4 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Africa's jobless youth cast a shadow over economic growth

Leaders put job-creation programmes on the front burner African governments are confronting unemployment in many different ways. In Senegal, with 200,000 Senegalese joining the labour market each year, President Macky Sall launched a progr…

Published: 02 May 2017 at 16:25hrs | 3 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Youth can help achieve SDGs

In 2015, Samuel Malinga, at age 26, founded Sanitation Africa - a company engaged in turning human waste into briquettes for cooking and agricultural manure. For his innovative approach to waste management, Samuel has been recognized by se…

Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 23:16hrs | 2 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Diagnosing Africa's medical brain drain

Higher wages and modern facilities are magnets for Africa's health workers Dressed in full medical gear and clutching a folder, Folu Songonuga, a physiotherapist, walked briskly across the lobby in the offices of Activa Rehabilitation Serv…

Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 21:59hrs | 5 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Commodity prices crash hits Africa

Volatile global financial markets and weaknesses in global growth to blame Just three years ago, most of the world's fastest-growing economies were in Africa, among them Angola, Chad, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.…

Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 21:52hrs | 5 | by Kingsley Ighobor

A green path to industrialization

The only viable option for Africa's continued development For environmentalists and development experts, green is not just a colour; it also refers to activities that benefit the environment-the careful use of the earth's finite resources.…

Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 17:23hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Unleashing the power of Africa's civil society

A Liberian women's peace movement led by 31-year-old Leymah Gbowee did something extraordinary in July 2003 to force Liberian warlords to sign a peace agreement that ended 10 years of a bloody civil war. After months of fruitless negotiati…

Published: 13 Aug 2016 at 09:11hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor

Lagos now wears a new look

City transforming from chaos of traffic congestion, rickety buses and pickpockets An oft-told tale of Lagos's once-notorious traffic jams is that of a taxi passenger stuck in a snarl-up who left the vehicle, wandered into a roadside r…

Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 21:33hrs | 4 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Sustainable Development Goals are in sync with Africa's priorities

Newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals could transform the continentOn 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development agenda known as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, prominent personalities in world p…

Published: 20 Nov 2015 at 21:55hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Billions now required to save depleted healthcare systems

Ebola's most affected countries lobby for funding for hospital infrastructure On 10 May 2015, a day after the World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free, stern-faced health officials were holding marathon meetings in different r…

Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 17:48hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor

Africa wants equal partners

Interview with Maged Abdelaziz, UN secretary-general's special adviser on AfricaIn 2012 the United Nations General Assembly created a mechanism to monitor commitments made by African countries and their partners to improve Africa's economi…

Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 07:11hrs | 3 | by Kingsley Ighobor

No longer a curse? - African leaders take action that may transform the mining

The Hollywood blockbuster movie, Blood Diamond, tells a gripping story of how diamonds fuelled Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war which erupted in 1991.  It depicts kidnappings, use of child soldiers, amputations, rape, killings and des…

Published: 17 May 2014 at 07:39hrs | 10 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Light at the end of the tunnel

Much ado over Africa's power sector Apapa is the industrial hub of Lagos, Nigeria's bustling commercial capital that's home to some 17 million people.  Daily, the air in Apapa reverberates with the humming sound of electricity generat…

Published: 03 May 2014 at 07:41hrs | 7 | by Kingsley Ighobor

African philanthropists push for prosperity

Last July, US President Barack Obama set the spark for his Power Africa programme that will help sub-Saharan African countries build power production and transmission projects and double their electricity access. President Obama announced …

Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 02:34hrs | 5 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Uprooting the causes of conflicts

Momentum in post-conflict peacebuilding in Africa On 11 July 2011, when South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his 8.3 million compatriots celebrated the new country's first independence, he was careful to remind everyone of the harsh real…

Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor

To be forever free!

Renewed focus on modern slavery on anniversaries of the transatlantic slave trade Every day sees visitors breaking down in tears while touring 97,000-square-foot Elmina Castle, west of Cape Coast, Ghana. Built in 1482 by the Portuguese as …

Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 17:12hrs | 2 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Politics of succession: coping African when leaders die

In December 2008, a Guinean newspaper published a photo of a frail and ailing President Lansana ContâˆšÃ‰Â¬Â©, who appeared to be struggling to stand up. The photo stoked rumours of the president's ill health. By the next day, on the instr…

Published: 21 Mar 2013 at 16:24hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor

Wangari Maathai, the woman of trees, dies

Kenya's Wangari Muta Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmentalist and human rights activist, died 25 September at age 71. A mother of three, she devoted her life to promoting the environment and democracy.Ms. Maathai freque…

Published: 09 Oct 2011 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Tackling the evil of famine in the Horn of Africa

Images of starving Somalis have shaken the conscience of the world: stomachs flattened by hunger, sagging flesh and noses dripping in mucus, fed on by opportunistic toilet flies. And death is lurking. This is the picture of many of the liv…

Published: 16 Sep 2011 at 19:14hrs | 1 | by Kingsley Ighobor

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