As Benin President Yayi Boni starts a new term
By Lisa French After a first-round knock-out reelection victory in March, Benin president Yayi Boni pledged to work harder to turn the country into an emerging nation. After a first-round …
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Africa in the 2013 human development report
According to the 2013 Human Development Report, an independent publication commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the continued growth of the economies of the South, after the developed …
Africa in world corruption rankings
The 2013 edition of Transparency International’s annual ranking of countries worldwide based on the level of corruption the previous year is out. Known as The Corruption Perception Index, CPI, the …
Reasonably good economic prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa
BY BLAME EKOUE “In spite of the crisis in Mali and other places, the economic prospects are reasonably good on the continent,” said Donald Kaberuka, president of the African Development, …
African football players with gold in their boots
By Ebow Godwin and Usman Mama The first group of players from a black African national football team who visited England in the early 1930’s from the then-Gold Coast, now …
The African Cotton Association vows to boost production
By Blame Ekoue Though Africa has a lot of arable lands, cotton production, which constitutes a source of foreign currency earnings for some countries, dropped drastically in the early 2000s. …
ECOWAS Bank to enhance its activities in the private sector
BLAME EKOUE After the crisis in the Euro Zone, the fragile financial markets and the looming United States “Fiscal cliff” which confronted the global economy have eased, the 40th ordinary session …
ECOWAS Bank launches multi-million dollar Waste-to-Wealth Biofuels Project
BY EBOW GODWIN “There is always something new coming out of Africa,” says an ancient Roman legend. Thierno Bocar Tall, the Senegalese brain behind the Lome-based African Biofuels and Renewable …
World Bank urges African countries to spend oil, gas and mineral wealth wisely
ALAN GREEN In the latest edition of its twice-yearly Africa’s Pulse, which looks at issues shaping Africa’s economic prospects, the bank notes that Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow at …
The U.S. helps fight corruption at the Togo-Ghana border
By Antoine Bitho “It is easier for an elephant to enter the eye of a needle than for businessmen to move their goods from Ghana to Togo along the border,” says …