Rwanda
The hot underground rocks in East Africa’s Rift Valley are thought to be a promising solution for energy production. The first results were recorded in Kenya, under the auspices of the United Nations and the expertise of the Icelanders.
In Africa, high-temperature geothermal resources – used to generate electricity – are usually found in areas of tectonic and volcanic activity...
The report presented on 7 July 2011 by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, on the state of progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) shows uneven improvement. While it highlights success in many areas, such as access to treatment to combat HIV/AIDS, it also states that the most vulnerable in society still do not have access to education or health care.
There...
Coming to the aid of African countries that are victims of "vulture funds" or that are legally poorly equipped to defend themselves against foreign investors is the objective of the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) established by the African Development Bank (AfDB)." Vulture Funds" are hedge funds buying up the bad debt of poorer countries at low prices, seeking to sell...
Much more than just primary health care
Rwanda has made considerable progress in the fight against some of the most serious infections, particularly impressive in the case of AIDS, with the number of children infected via their mothers down in the last four years from 11.4% (2005) to 4.1% (2009). It is expected that this rate will soon fall to 2%, as in the developed nations, and the...
1 July 2010 was an historic day for the five countries of the East African Community (EAC). The day when the government leaders of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya signed the protocol for the free movement of people, goods and services, to be followed, in 2012, by a single currency.
At the EAC offices in Arusha – not far from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda...
Three years after its launch, the initiative on a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change is on track.
The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react. These are...
Flanders: an NGO for Development: An awareness-raising model: the creation of a network
The numbers 11.11.11 are as well known in Belgium, and especially in Flanders, as a nursery rhyme. This is the name of the umbrella organisation for Flemish NGOs working for cooperation between North and South. When it was set up in 1966, 11.11.11 was an all-Belgian group, but the process of federalisation...
On the eve of the of the third Africa-European Union (EU) Summit in Tripoli the EU’s Commissioner for Development, Andris Pielbags speaks to The Courier about the new AU-EU strategy put on place over the last three years by the two parties. He highlights the importance of the Tripoli Summit to address the adaptation of the strategy to meet crucial challenges relating to peace in conflict...
Yves Sahinguvu is the first vice-president of Burundi, a position reserved for a Tutsi under the terms of the constitution ratifying the Arusha Accords, which put an end to fifteen years of civil war.
HG – The President of the Republic is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC) at the moment. Is this visit part of the consultation process between countries of the Great Lakes...
Hope is reborn and new initiatives are bearing fruit. “Peace is back”. It’s not really fresh news; the last armed faction laid down its arms back in April 2009. But this is one of those countries that appear to be locked into an image which people hold of it, in this case that of ethnic conflict. Burundi deserves to be discovered, for the economic opportunities, for its...
The hot underground rocks in East Africa’s Rift Valley are thought to be a promising solution for energy production. The first results were recorded in Kenya, under the auspices of the United Nations and the expertise of the Icelanders.
In Africa, high-temperature geothermal resources – used to generate electricity – are usually found in areas of tectonic and volcanic activity...
The report presented on 7 July 2011 by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, on the state of progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) shows uneven improvement. While it highlights success in many areas, such as access to treatment to combat HIV/AIDS, it also states that the most vulnerable in society still do not have access to education or health care.
There...
Coming to the aid of African countries that are victims of "vulture funds" or that are legally poorly equipped to defend themselves against foreign investors is the objective of the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) established by the African Development Bank (AfDB)." Vulture Funds" are hedge funds buying up the bad debt of poorer countries at low prices, seeking to sell...
Much more than just primary health care
Rwanda has made considerable progress in the fight against some of the most serious infections, particularly impressive in the case of AIDS, with the number of children infected via their mothers down in the last four years from 11.4% (2005) to 4.1% (2009). It is expected that this rate will soon fall to 2%, as in the developed nations, and the...
1 July 2010 was an historic day for the five countries of the East African Community (EAC). The day when the government leaders of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya signed the protocol for the free movement of people, goods and services, to be followed, in 2012, by a single currency.
At the EAC offices in Arusha – not far from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda...
Three years after its launch, the initiative on a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change is on track.
The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react. These are...
Flanders: an NGO for Development: An awareness-raising model: the creation of a network
The numbers 11.11.11 are as well known in Belgium, and especially in Flanders, as a nursery rhyme. This is the name of the umbrella organisation for Flemish NGOs working for cooperation between North and South. When it was set up in 1966, 11.11.11 was an all-Belgian group, but the process of federalisation...
On the eve of the of the third Africa-European Union (EU) Summit in Tripoli the EU’s Commissioner for Development, Andris Pielbags speaks to The Courier about the new AU-EU strategy put on place over the last three years by the two parties. He highlights the importance of the Tripoli Summit to address the adaptation of the strategy to meet crucial challenges relating to peace in conflict...
Yves Sahinguvu is the first vice-president of Burundi, a position reserved for a Tutsi under the terms of the constitution ratifying the Arusha Accords, which put an end to fifteen years of civil war.
HG – The President of the Republic is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo(DRC) at the moment. Is this visit part of the consultation process between countries of the Great Lakes...
Hope is reborn and new initiatives are bearing fruit. “Peace is back”. It’s not really fresh news; the last armed faction laid down its arms back in April 2009. But this is one of those countries that appear to be locked into an image which people hold of it, in this case that of ethnic conflict. Burundi deserves to be discovered, for the economic opportunities, for its...
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