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The digital revolution has caught up fast in the world of African creativity! Over the last ten years, the increase in African Internet users has been 16 times greater than that of North American users. Alongside this, a growing number of African organisations and cultural operators are creating and participating in websites and social networks, offering an ever-increasing range of resources to...
The Uganda National Museum is one of the most important heritage sites in Eastern Africa, but if all goes as the Ugandan government plans, it could be destroyed. In fact, the government has planned to construct a 60-story ultra modern building in Kampala, at plot 5 Kiira Road, the exact location where the Museum building currently stands.
Culture and heritage don’t have big success among...
Iceland offers developing countries its expertise in geothermics and fishing where it has a second-to-none reputation.
The international cooperation budget was not spared when the Icelandic Government was forced to make drastic spending cuts in the wake of the 2008 financial crash. Since 2000, public development aid had experienced a steady rise reaching, 0.36% of Gross National Product (GDP) in...
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...
At the head of the newspaper 'Al Ayaam' that he founded back in 1953, Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh witnessed at close hand every step in his country’s move to independence in 1956, amid political upheavals marked by repeated newspaper closures and arrests. At the age of 84, this wise man of the Sudanese press takes a lucid but empathetic look at what his country’s future may hold....
Nigeria took over the chair of the six-month rotating ACP Group Presidency on the 1st February 2011. The new Chairman of the ACP Committee of Ambassadors and Ambassador of Nigeria, His Excellency, Usman Alhaji Baraya, was welcomed by ACP Secretary General, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, at a recent ceremony in Brussels. Ambassador Baraya succeeds H.E Patrick Gomes, Ambassador of Guyana. The next...
Cooking pots from refugees transformed into drums with cow and reindeer hide will be mounted on a trailer and played in schools and public places. Sandals ‑ mostly flip flops ‑ from the feet of refugees around the world will be laid around Turku in the form of paths. A tent woven together from pieces of cloth made by refugees will provide a venue for music, drama, poetry and debate. This ‘...
Helping young women break out of the vicious circle of poverty and dependence is one of the projects developed in northern Tanzania by the German NGO, ‘DSW’. The approach is twofold: to learn a skill and to manage their sexuality.
Gertrude is 22. She is a trainee chef at the Golden Rose Hotel in Arusha, a major urban and tourist centre a stone’s throw from Mount...
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...
Far from the major economic and tourist routes, the Kagera region alongside Lake Victoria, in north-west Tanzania, is now slowly but surely recovering from its wounds. Thanks in part to the action of local people and to NGOs such as Partage-Tanzania.
In 1989, Philippe Krynen, a French pilot visiting Kagera, discovered a devastated region. The result, most certainly, of the disastrous state...
The digital revolution has caught up fast in the world of African creativity! Over the last ten years, the increase in African Internet users has been 16 times greater than that of North American users. Alongside this, a growing number of African organisations and cultural operators are creating and participating in websites and social networks, offering an ever-increasing range of resources to...
The Uganda National Museum is one of the most important heritage sites in Eastern Africa, but if all goes as the Ugandan government plans, it could be destroyed. In fact, the government has planned to construct a 60-story ultra modern building in Kampala, at plot 5 Kiira Road, the exact location where the Museum building currently stands.
Culture and heritage don’t have big success among...
Iceland offers developing countries its expertise in geothermics and fishing where it has a second-to-none reputation.
The international cooperation budget was not spared when the Icelandic Government was forced to make drastic spending cuts in the wake of the 2008 financial crash. Since 2000, public development aid had experienced a steady rise reaching, 0.36% of Gross National Product (GDP) in...
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...
At the head of the newspaper 'Al Ayaam' that he founded back in 1953, Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh witnessed at close hand every step in his country’s move to independence in 1956, amid political upheavals marked by repeated newspaper closures and arrests. At the age of 84, this wise man of the Sudanese press takes a lucid but empathetic look at what his country’s future may hold....
Nigeria took over the chair of the six-month rotating ACP Group Presidency on the 1st February 2011. The new Chairman of the ACP Committee of Ambassadors and Ambassador of Nigeria, His Excellency, Usman Alhaji Baraya, was welcomed by ACP Secretary General, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, at a recent ceremony in Brussels. Ambassador Baraya succeeds H.E Patrick Gomes, Ambassador of Guyana. The next...
Cooking pots from refugees transformed into drums with cow and reindeer hide will be mounted on a trailer and played in schools and public places. Sandals ‑ mostly flip flops ‑ from the feet of refugees around the world will be laid around Turku in the form of paths. A tent woven together from pieces of cloth made by refugees will provide a venue for music, drama, poetry and debate. This ‘...
Helping young women break out of the vicious circle of poverty and dependence is one of the projects developed in northern Tanzania by the German NGO, ‘DSW’. The approach is twofold: to learn a skill and to manage their sexuality.
Gertrude is 22. She is a trainee chef at the Golden Rose Hotel in Arusha, a major urban and tourist centre a stone’s throw from Mount...
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...
Far from the major economic and tourist routes, the Kagera region alongside Lake Victoria, in north-west Tanzania, is now slowly but surely recovering from its wounds. Thanks in part to the action of local people and to NGOs such as Partage-Tanzania.
In 1989, Philippe Krynen, a French pilot visiting Kagera, discovered a devastated region. The result, most certainly, of the disastrous state...
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