The Courier

The ACPs mobilise in the interests of their mineral resources

The still largely under-exploited mineral resources of the African, Caribbean and Pacific counties are much coveted by emerging countries and industrialised nations alike, given their almost exponential growth in mineral needs. While bringing development opportunities, this also presents many challenges. The ministers responsible from the ACP countries came together in Brussels on 14 and 15 December to take stock of the situation at what was...

India and Africa-sharing history and future

Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal holds a globe at a press conference i

One country – almost a continent, with diverse cultures, languages, races, climates – and one continent, both with turbulent pasts and promising futures, the fusion of India and Africa is inevitable. A rising India and a resurgent Africa will script a new chapter in world history.

Homage Malangatana (1936-2011)

The man has just left us, but the reference point he has become will long remain. The life of the brilliant painter, Malangatana Valente Ngwenya, which began on the 6th of June 1936 in the small town of Malatana in the south of Mozambique and which has just ended during a trip to Matosinhos in Portugal on the 5th of January 2011, is a wonder and a hymn to all human beings. From the little jobs he performed as an adolescent to the '...

New financing for the forests of the Congo Basin

Last December the European Union granted financing of €30M to support phase five of the Programme for Forest Ecosystems in Central Africa (ECOFAC).

The awakening of Brandenburg

The Sanssouci Palace © Marie-Martine Buckens

Long overlooked - in terms of both commerce and tourism - in favour of the 'Land' and city of Berlin embedded right in the middle of its territory, Brandenburg is beginning to wake up. Granted "Land" status following the reunification of Germany, this former region of the German Democratic Republic under the Soviet yoke, has managed to curb an endemic unemployment record and to reduce it to less than 15% of the workforce, a...

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