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Peter Guest, editor
African innovation can produce solutions with global application. Africa is not so disconnected from the world that it must be viewed in a vacuum. Its solutions can be universal and, as Microsoft’s Cheick Diarra says, Africa can be an incubator for innovation”
The assassination of President Joao Bernardo Vieira has prompted fears of a coup in the West African country.
By Ruchita Beri
When the curtains came down on the India-Africa business partnership summit held recently in New Delhi, there was a palpable sense of excitement in the air that was quite difficult to miss.
Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir waves to supporters during his visit to the North Darfur state capital of el-Fasher on March 8, 2009
The International Criminal Court’s warrant for the arrest of President Bashir in Sudan is at best ineffective – and at worst counterproductive, experts say.
By Steve McDonald
Any new US president, had it been John McCain or Barack Obama, would have had to begin his administration with a review and a reorientation of relations with Africa in the context of a dramatically changed world.
By Alhaji Aliko Dangote
The world economy has dominated media headlines for more than six months now, with continuing uncertainty as to the true size and scale of the crisis that has engulfed almost every corner of the globe.
By Jeffrey Sachs
Economic policy can best help to stabilise the world economy by focusing on the core features of the global crisis, rather than flailing around with patch-ups from one day to the next.
With a young population and an insatiable appetite for information, Africa could be the next great technology market
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“The G8 and G20 have influence, but they don’t have legitimacy. They have influence because they are big economies, they meet once a year, make decisions that affect people who are not invited to the table. If you are going to reform the system, it has to be based on universality”
As Europe seeks to secure its energy future by tapping African resources, reducing its dependence on Russian gas, Moscow is rekindling an old interest in Africa.
South Africa is set for the most important national and provincial elections since 1994. The emergence of a credible opposition to the controversy-hit ANC has raised critical questions about the country’s future. Lanre Akinola reports.
Two men inspect the dome of a nuclear power station
Demand from India and China for nuclear fuel and innovation in power plant design are contributing to renewed optimism in uranium mining. Peter Guest reports.
Giovanni Bisignani, CEO of the International Air Transport Association
The opportunity to tap into the incomes of Africa’s emerging business and consumer class has prompted several of the continent’s airlines to expand their networks. Lanre Akinola report.
While half of sub-Saharan Africa has no access to modern healthcare facilities, debate still rages over which system is best, private or public. Lanre Akinola reports.
While mobile telecoms operators in mature markets are trying to squeeze more revenue from their users, in Africa and other developing regions they are looking to expand into hard-to-reach rural areas.
While mobile telecoms operators in mature markets are trying to squeeze more revenue from their users, in Africa and other developing regions they are looking to expand into hard-to-reach rural areas.
From its beginnings in India in 1999, Bharti Telesoft has ridden the wave of mobile telephony in developing markets to become a global provider of services to telecoms operators. Now it counts more than 100 clients in more than 70 countries, 30 of which are in Africa.
By Graham Mackay
It was nearly four years ago that, while speaking at the African Economic Summit in Cape Town, I mentioned that if there was any more of Africa we’d be investing in it and during the intervening period I have been asked on many occasions if I still stand by this statement.
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