Recently added articles from African Business:
Where's the beef?(Africa's food crisis)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Kammah, Kaiser ... I was interested to read the Special Focus on Agriculture in Africa article, 'Africa's Food Crisis' (African Business, Aug/Sep 2009 issue) but surprised to note that very important aspects of Africa's food security were omitted from it. Firstly, while an important food source, the oceans ...
Win a free annual subscription!(Prize Letter)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; ... African Business will award a free one-year subscription to the reader whose letter is chosen as the Prize Letter for that month. (Existing subscribers will receive a free annual renewal.) Your views on Africa and matters affecting Africa are very important to this publication. We ...
Praise for the presentations.(Business Awards)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Merriweather, Lincoln R. ... Congratulations to African Business on successfully holding the second annual African Business Awards ceremony. Before you inaugurated these awards last year, it had been clear that some sort of recognition should be paid to those companies that operate commercially, often against great ...
Kudos for clear presentation.(View from the City)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Mhurewa, Janet ... I always enjoy reading Moin Siddiqi's 'View from the City' columns. They unfailingly provide specific information and facts and figures that both describe Africa's economic challenges and the successes we are having in overcoming them. He usually does this through an analysis of the latest ...
African intercessions.(Ancestral spirits)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Cresswell, Amber ... The Letter from East Africa, 'The cost of Dying is Killing!' (African Business, August September issue) made interesting reading. It reminded me of the Malagasy tradition that, as far as I am aware, is unique. The peoples of Madagascar practise the extraordinary tradition of opening up the ...
No laughing matter.(Economists and wisdom)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Chandra, Rav ... I do not know where African Business editor Anver Versi got the idea that Nobel economics laureat Joseph Stiglitz has earned "the enviable reputation of great wisdom by saying very little" (African Business, August/September 2009 editorial, 'Statistics and other lies'). The truth is, his ...
Where were the regulators?(Fleecing the rich)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Olukoju, Johnny ... Your spotlight article ('The gentle art of fleecing the rich' - African Business, August/September 2009 issue) illustrated that old saying that you should never underestimate people's greed nor their gullibility when huge profits are on offer. How else can you explain the phenomenon of ...
Colonialism not to blame.(Land and conflict)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Mwangi, Albert ... Waiting for my flight from Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Entebbe, Uganda, I bought a copy of African Business to read. It seemed very prescient of your reader from Germany, Ola Ahoofe Jr, to write about land ownership ('Letters', African Business, August/September 2009) ....
Turning rubbish into wealth.(Energy)(Letter to the editor)
Oct 01, 2009; Freidman, Bart ... Emily Miller's report on the use of waste to produce synthetic fuels ('Fuel - how to have your cake and eat it too', African Business, August/September 2009 issue) sounds like an ideal way to meet two growing problems that South Africa and many other countries are currently facing. We have ...
African blocs simplify rules of origin.(Trade)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Aiming to boost intra-continental trade, three of Africa's leading regional trade blocs - the East African Community (EAC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) - have simplified the rules of origin to be applied ...
Africa now nuclear-free zone.(Treaty)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Africa is now a nuclear-weapons-free zone under the ratified African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty. "The treaty, covering the entire African continent and its surrounding islands, ensures that nuclear weapons are not developed, produced, tested, or otherwise acquired or stationed in any ...
Risk and cost sinks Inga.(Power)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Increased political risk and a price tag approaching $8obn have been cited as reasons for the probable withdrawal of investors in the troubled Inga 3 hydroelectric power project on the Congo River. The project, due to be funded by a consortium of five southern African governments, ...
How to net illegal fishing boats.(Fisheries)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it is close to a groundbreaking international agreement that will ban from ports worldwide vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The move will greatly help conserve fish stocks within developing-country ...
S Africa u-turns on ICC defiance.(Courts)(International Criminal Court )(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The South African government has backed down on its decision not to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir if he travels to South Africa. The International Criminal Court earlier this year issued a warrant for al-Bashir's arrest on various charges of war crimes but South Africa sided ...
Slavery's rebirth.(Human Rights)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Slavery is alive and well across the world, say two UN organisations. Unfinished Business, a Unesco report, states that human trafficking, sexual servitude and child labour have similar characteristics to historical slave systems, while the UN Office on Drugs and Crime discloses in its ...
Dubai developer shelves Rwanda plans.(Tourism)(Rwanda Development Board)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Leisure and hospitality infrastructure developer Dubai World has scrapped six of eight planned tourism projects in Rwanda. The Rwanda Development Board (RDB) reports that Dubai World has drastically scaled back on a $230m tourist promotion programme citing the impact of the global ...
Ex-US lawmaker guilty of Africa bribery scheme.(Justice)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Former Democrat Representative William Jefferson has been convicted of using his office to try to enrich himself and relatives through bribery and payoffs involving business ventures in Africa. The former US politician from Louisiana was accused in 2007 of soliciting millions of ...
Eskom stalls signing deal with Botswana's Mmamabula.(Generation)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Progress on the giant Mmamabula thermal power station in southeastern Botswana is being forced to mark time while Eskom, South African power utility and the major buyer of the planned 3500KW coal-fired electricity output, finalises its funding model with the South African government. Eskom ...
Iran to underwrite Ugandan oil industry.(Oil & gas)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... The entire value chain of Uganda's oil production is to be funded by Iran -from oil fields to finished product - at a jointly funded oil refinery at Entebbe. The agreement was reached during President Yoweri Museveni's (above) mid-May visit to Tehran in talks with his counterpart, ...
China's Botswana treasure hunt.(Mining)(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Chinese mining companies have acquired 10% of Botswana's 1,101 exploration licences after holding only a handful four years ago, according to Johannes Tsikamo, chief geologist at Botswana's Department of Geological Surveys. "Chinese companies are being ...
