The ambitions of a young Ugandan entrepreneur to expand his coffee processing business will soon be within reach. East Africa’s accelerated integration process is opening up possibilities that were unthinkable not long ago. In a couple of years he may be able to tap into West Africa’s 350 million people without having to pay the […]
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Par Carlos Lopes et Amina J. Mohammed La course pour la réalisation des objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement (OMD) touche à sa fin. Pour autant, les efforts vont encore redoubler car il faut désormais passer le relais au programme de développement pour l’après-2015. Ce dernier comprend des objectifs mondiaux intéressant l’humanité et la planète,
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By Carlos Lopes and Amina J. Mohammed As the race to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) draws to a close, the momentum will only intensify as the baton passes to the post-2015 development agenda, including global goals for people and planet to be adopted by world leaders in September at the Headquarters of the
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Il y a quelques semaines, alors que je me rendais de Dire Dawa à Harar, ville historique de l’est de l’Éthiopie, j’ai vu un minibus sur la vitre arrière duquel était inscrit un message qui m’a intrigué; il disait ceci : « Si vous ne voyez pas mes rétroviseurs, je ne peux pas vous voir ». Ce message
Les Africains sont-ils prêts pour leur avenir? Read More »
A few weeks ago, on my way from Dire Dawa to the historical city of Harar, in eastern Ethiopia, I came across a minivan that had an intriguing message on the rear window. It read as follows: “If you don’t see my mirrors, I can’t see you”. This funny message put me on a thinking
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Many years ago, I worked for my parents who own a video production company. Because it is a family business, you inevitably end up wearing many hats and being the czar of many different jobs. I mainly managed projects and worked as a video editor. On production, there were times that I was called on to work as an audio tech and was made to wear headphones on long production days. In those days, having a really good set of headphones that picked up every nuance of sound was essential to making sure the client got what they needed.
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An African woman has been married for 13 years and for every day of those 13 years she worked hard with her husband to cultivate a small piece of land he owned growing vegetables which she then sold in the market. Tragedy struck when her husband died leaving her to fend for their two young
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Une femme africaine a été mariée pendant 13 ans et chaque jour de ces 13 ans, elle a travaillé dur avec son mari pour cultiver le petit lopin de terre qu’il possédait et faire pousser des légumes qu’elle vendait ensuite au marché. Le malheur a frappé et son mari est mort, la laissant seule se
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Ces 15 dernières années, l’Afrique a connu une croissance d’un niveau relativement élevé, tirée par un super cycle des matières premières et par la demande intérieure vigoureuse d’une classe moyenne en expansion, mais elle dépend toujours de ces matières premières pour l’essentiel de ses recettes d’exportation. Il est désormais largement admis que, en l’absence d’économies
While the last 15 years have seen relatively high levels of growth driven by a commodity super-cycle and strong internal demand from a growing middleclass, Africa is still dependent on commodities for most of its export earnings. There is now broad consensus that, without diversified economies, Africa will remain prone to exogenous shocks and trapped
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