Tanzania
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...
Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa has escaped being bruised by the global economic downturn, explains Taleb Rifai, Secretary General of the Madrid-based World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a United Nations agency. His organisation, which has 154 country members and over 400 affiliates, promotes the development of sustainable and universally accessible tourism, particularly in developing...
Bar the occasional shock, in terms of arrivals numbers, there has been virtually uninterrupted growth in the tourism sector since the 1950s, according to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a specialised United Nations agency. The sector creates employment - especially in small island nations - and triggers development in other areas of the economy; construction, agriculture and...
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...
After completing a first and Masters’ degree in geography at Dar es Salam University in Tanzania, Zahor Khalifa is spending the first year of his doctoral studies at the University of Turku. Pluses are the very latest software and small class sizes; among the minuses - adapting to Finland’s freezing winter temperatures!
“When I first arrived in September 2010, I stayed in my...
British High Commissioner to Ghana and Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo until January of this year, and with a previous posting in Tanzania, Nicholas Westcott is now the “Mr Africa” of European diplomacy.
As Managing Director for Africa in the new European External Action Service (EEAS), responsible for European policy on sub-Saharan Africa and relations...
“We are presently engaged with those EPA partners still committed to the process in order to keep the negotiations on track and to deliver successful outcomes in the not so distant future”, says EU trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, in an interview with The Courier.
Only one ‘full’ EPA with CARICOM has been signed to date. How can EPA talks be given new impetus?...
From the traditional ngoma to design by way of the Tinga painters, not forgetting the revival of cinema, Tanzanian culture is alive and well and exploring an identity between tradition and modernity.
In the north of the country, close to the port of Mwanza, the Bujora cultural centre is one of the two major institutions actively promoting ngoma, a traditional Tanzanian dance of subtle...
The Tanzanians’ nightmare
Mwanza, the second port of Tanzania, lies on the shores of Lake Victoria. If you approach people and ask them what they think of Darwin's Nightmare, the documentary directed by Hubert Sauper, faces harden, the silence echoes around you. Four years after its premiere, the film, widely praised by international critics, maligned by some experts who described...
There is no shortage of rainfall on the island of spices; however it faces numerous challenges to ensure an adequate and good quality water supply, especially for the neglected rural population of the north-west of the island, far away from the tourist areas.
Monsoon rain water is collected in the natural caves of this mainly coral island. And yet several different factors threaten 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...
Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa has escaped being bruised by the global economic downturn, explains Taleb Rifai, Secretary General of the Madrid-based World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a United Nations agency. His organisation, which has 154 country members and over 400 affiliates, promotes the development of sustainable and universally accessible tourism, particularly in developing...
Bar the occasional shock, in terms of arrivals numbers, there has been virtually uninterrupted growth in the tourism sector since the 1950s, according to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a specialised United Nations agency. The sector creates employment - especially in small island nations - and triggers development in other areas of the economy; construction, agriculture and...
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...
After completing a first and Masters’ degree in geography at Dar es Salam University in Tanzania, Zahor Khalifa is spending the first year of his doctoral studies at the University of Turku. Pluses are the very latest software and small class sizes; among the minuses - adapting to Finland’s freezing winter temperatures!
“When I first arrived in September 2010, I stayed in my...
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British High Commissioner to Ghana and Ambassador to the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo until January of this year, and with a previous posting in Tanzania, Nicholas Westcott is now the “Mr Africa” of European diplomacy.
As Managing Director for Africa in the new European External Action Service (EEAS), responsible for European policy on sub-Saharan Africa and relations...
“We are presently engaged with those EPA partners still committed to the process in order to keep the negotiations on track and to deliver successful outcomes in the not so distant future”, says EU trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, in an interview with The Courier.
Only one ‘full’ EPA with CARICOM has been signed to date. How can EPA talks be given new impetus?...
From the traditional ngoma to design by way of the Tinga painters, not forgetting the revival of cinema, Tanzanian culture is alive and well and exploring an identity between tradition and modernity.
In the north of the country, close to the port of Mwanza, the Bujora cultural centre is one of the two major institutions actively promoting ngoma, a traditional Tanzanian dance of subtle...
The Tanzanians’ nightmare
Mwanza, the second port of Tanzania, lies on the shores of Lake Victoria. If you approach people and ask them what they think of Darwin's Nightmare, the documentary directed by Hubert Sauper, faces harden, the silence echoes around you. Four years after its premiere, the film, widely praised by international critics, maligned by some experts who described...
There is no shortage of rainfall on the island of spices; however it faces numerous challenges to ensure an adequate and good quality water supply, especially for the neglected rural population of the north-west of the island, far away from the tourist areas.
Monsoon rain water is collected in the natural caves of this mainly coral island. And yet several different factors threaten its...
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