Namibia
The serious lack of transport in Sub-Saharan Africa is a challenge that the EU and Africa are tackling together, through their Partnership on Infrastructure.
This partnership provides a strategic framework to improve the interconnection of transport networks across the continent. It is supported by the European Development Fund through its traditional instruments – such as the National and...
In Namibia, the complex process of land reform is greatly speeded up by the use of appropriate technology. The latest information and communication solutions combined with innovative land registration systems have led to impressive results – largely to the benefit of communal farmers who now have secure plots to live on and to farm.
The availability of land is important for the...
Africa has been central to the South-South strategy advocated by President Lula – full name Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva – during his eight years as Brazil’s leader. For reasons of solidarity, but also, and above all, due to geopolitical and economic interests.
“Brazil will never be able to repay its historical debt to the continent”, Lula has stated repeatedly...
Ah ... the pursuit of self-interest ... that greatest of all motivators of mankind ... can sometimes have wider benefits and it is indeed a cornerstone of modern society. My neighbour and I agree not to clobber each other over the heads because it is in our mutual and separate self-interest.
Self-interest is then also the main driver of South Africa's keen promotion of the economic...
EGNOS: EU satellite for African skies?
The African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) are cooperating on how to improve satellite communication navigation in African skies to enhance safety and propel the continent’s economic development forward. One option is to extend the EU’s own European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) to the whole of the African continent, its benefits...
A Single African sky?
African airlines have been hit by the global financial downturn. In February 2009 alone, African airlines posted a passenger drop of 13.7 per cent, according to AFRAA, the Nairobi-based African Airlines Association which groups 40 of the continent’s indigenous airline companies. This year the ash cloud over Europe, caused by the eruption of Iceland’s volcano...
HIV/AIDS: Responsible cooperation
Health – and the fight against HIV/AIDS in particular – is one of the South African Government’s biggest priorities, alongside education, employment and combating poverty.
Southern Africa, and South Africa in particular, has one of the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rates in the world. The virus is notably prevalent among women...
An African Elephant Coalition is calling on the European Union to oppose any move in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that would give a green light to exports of African ivory which, it says, would further put in peril the African elephant. The ministerial meeting of CITES in Qatar, 13-25 March, was expected to look at requests from Tanzania and Zambia to...
“We want to become a bridgehead for continental Africa”
Interview with José Brito, Cape Verde’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Communities. Cape Verde has decided to deploy substantial funds to attract investment. But where, exactly? Primarily in infrastructure – ports, airports, high-speed communications – to transform the country into a...
Global crisis chips Africa’s gem
Diamond-dependent Botswana, a land-locked country with a population of just under two million, saw its economic sparkle fade in 2009. The precious gems have long been a mainstay of the economy, providing half of government revenue and 70 per cent of foreign exchange and contributing to the country’s enviable social development which has almost...
The serious lack of transport in Sub-Saharan Africa is a challenge that the EU and Africa are tackling together, through their Partnership on Infrastructure.
This partnership provides a strategic framework to improve the interconnection of transport networks across the continent. It is supported by the European Development Fund through its traditional instruments – such as the National and...
In Namibia, the complex process of land reform is greatly speeded up by the use of appropriate technology. The latest information and communication solutions combined with innovative land registration systems have led to impressive results – largely to the benefit of communal farmers who now have secure plots to live on and to farm.
The availability of land is important for the...
Africa has been central to the South-South strategy advocated by President Lula – full name Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva – during his eight years as Brazil’s leader. For reasons of solidarity, but also, and above all, due to geopolitical and economic interests.
“Brazil will never be able to repay its historical debt to the continent”, Lula has stated repeatedly...
Ah ... the pursuit of self-interest ... that greatest of all motivators of mankind ... can sometimes have wider benefits and it is indeed a cornerstone of modern society. My neighbour and I agree not to clobber each other over the heads because it is in our mutual and separate self-interest.
Self-interest is then also the main driver of South Africa's keen promotion of the economic...
EGNOS: EU satellite for African skies?
The African Union (AU) and European Union (EU) are cooperating on how to improve satellite communication navigation in African skies to enhance safety and propel the continent’s economic development forward. One option is to extend the EU’s own European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) to the whole of the African continent, its benefits...
A Single African sky?
African airlines have been hit by the global financial downturn. In February 2009 alone, African airlines posted a passenger drop of 13.7 per cent, according to AFRAA, the Nairobi-based African Airlines Association which groups 40 of the continent’s indigenous airline companies. This year the ash cloud over Europe, caused by the eruption of Iceland’s volcano...
HIV/AIDS: Responsible cooperation
Health – and the fight against HIV/AIDS in particular – is one of the South African Government’s biggest priorities, alongside education, employment and combating poverty.
Southern Africa, and South Africa in particular, has one of the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rates in the world. The virus is notably prevalent among women...
An African Elephant Coalition is calling on the European Union to oppose any move in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that would give a green light to exports of African ivory which, it says, would further put in peril the African elephant. The ministerial meeting of CITES in Qatar, 13-25 March, was expected to look at requests from Tanzania and Zambia to...
“We want to become a bridgehead for continental Africa”
Interview with José Brito, Cape Verde’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Communities. Cape Verde has decided to deploy substantial funds to attract investment. But where, exactly? Primarily in infrastructure – ports, airports, high-speed communications – to transform the country into a...
Global crisis chips Africa’s gem
Diamond-dependent Botswana, a land-locked country with a population of just under two million, saw its economic sparkle fade in 2009. The precious gems have long been a mainstay of the economy, providing half of government revenue and 70 per cent of foreign exchange and contributing to the country’s enviable social development which has almost...
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