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Brain gain: Skilled diaspora return to Africa
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... opt to, or are forced to emigrate. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African brain drain is particularly noticeable in the health sector. For example, in the 1980's, Kenya ...
Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Africa's booming tech space will define the continent's future
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... is heading towards the growth of the mobile web here. A recent survey in Kenya found that 58 per cent of respondents used their mobile phone as a secondary device for accessing the web. Some people are ...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
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Riders saving lives in Lesotho
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... is the official charity of the Grand Prix motorbike championship, or MotoGP. The organisation operates in Gambia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Lesotho, with projects completed in Ghana, Democratic ...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
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Davos Special Report: Africa rising
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... transfer systems such as M-PESA from Kenya's Safaricom have allowed people with no bank accounts - still the vast majority - to ping money to each other for a fraction of the cost of transfers or a bus ...
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
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The road to prosperity
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... the development of a $9 billion solar project. The project will eventually account for 38% of the North African country's installed power generation by 2020. Kenya has also launched into the renewable ...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
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2009: a good year
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... for Chinese Studies, African growth in 2009 came almost exclusively off the back of deals with China. The proof is in the pudding with Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Kenya, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Congo Republic ...
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
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Building Africa BRIC by BRIC: a new trade era
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... and developing markets are so deeply connected, that it is impossible to see China in a positive light, India in a positive light, Brazil in a positive light, without seeing Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, ...
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
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Pumping life into African agriculture
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Micro-irrigation pumps, being sold by an international Non-Profit Organisation called KickStart, have started revolutionising output levels for small scale farmers in Kenya, Mali and Tanzania. At the end ...
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
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China in Africa: Is the continent being re-colonised?
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... words of Zaire's former dictator Mobuto Sese-Seko, "it takes two to be corrupt - the corruptor and the corrupted". It was virtually impossible to do business in states such as Nigeria, Cameroon and Kenya ...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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The grass is green here: Africa and the eco-uprising
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In the Turkana lake district of Kenya a howling wind blows almost all year round. The meteorologists attribute this anomaly to the valley floor lying between two mountains, the heat difference between ...
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
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Africa - open for business like never before
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... industry around Lake Naivasha in Kenya joined together to pave the roads. They may be competitors, but the new roads benefit them all, as well as the community and tourism industry. Companies support ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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African heroes
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... At the age of 42 she was forced to run from Liberia into exile in Kenya. Political parties were unbanned in 1985, and the country held an election in the same year; and this determined lady decided to ...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009
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The revolution will not be televised: the African blogosphere
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... blogs from my home country. And even more from Kenya, Uganda, Libya and all over Africa.” Through CongoBlog, Kalonji has established his own network of eight bloggers and five cartoonists, who tell the ...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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Why you can't ignore Africa's 900 million consumers
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... interest from Silicon Valley and other high tech centers. Is it too late to begin similar national schemes in such African countries as Kenya, Botswana and Mauritius? VM: Absolutely not. But even ...
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
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Africa: the good news
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... in the next rank: Ghana, with a reputation for steadiness and quiet advancement, will it keep its head now that oil has been found? Can Kenya, which possesses a dynamic and technology savvy workforce; ...
Friday, 08 May 2009
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Facebook generation gears up to monitor Nigeria poll
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Tags: [Nigeria election, Facebook, Twitter, Blackberry, Wangonet, Ushahidi, Goodluck Jonathan, People's Democratic Party, Enough is Enough, CLEEN Foundation, Onyinye Onyemobi, Ibrahim Babangida, Kenya, ...
Wednesday, 08 September 2010
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African countries step up bid to host SKA telescope
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Tags: [Square Kilometre Array, Australasia, radio telescope, SKA bid, African SKA initiative, SKA African Associate Countries, SKA telescope stations, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, ...
Tuesday, 07 September 2010
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African agricultural finance under the spotlight
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... Kofi Annan, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, CBN, Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cote d'Ivoire, Libya, Nigeria] ...
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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Vodacom, Nedbank launch mobile cash service
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Tags: [Mobile money, Vodacom, Nedbank, M-Pesa, Safaricom, Mike Brown, Vodafone, MTN, MobileMoney, Bharti Airtel, Zap mobile, Zain, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Cote d'ivoire, Kenya, South Africa] ...
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
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Red hot Rudisha lowers 800m world record
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Tags: [David Rudisha, Rieti, Italy, 800 metres, world record, IAAF World Challenge, Kenya] ...
Monday, 30 August 2010
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