The inspiring story of one young man: 19-year-old David Were lives in Africa’s largest slum where polluted water, disease and safety are daily concerns. He tells his story in his own words.
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Short summary of land deals in Tanzania.
Nonkosi Khumalo, the chairperson of Treatment Action Campaign South Africa, asks whether African civil society has “lost the plot” in its efforts to encourage stronger international action on the AIDS crisis in Africa.
James Traub, writing in Foreign Policy, discusses the failed effort of the Arab “Forum for the Future” to incorporate civil society, and its ramifications: “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum”.
Did civil society in Egypt presage the uprisings in the Maghreb? Issandr El Amrani suggests that that might be the case, writing in a blog on foreignpolicy.com: “Egyptian Civil Society at Risk”.
The role of civil society in the countries recently thrown into turmoil by the Arab Spring is significant. Some reflections from Tunisia were shared by Abdulwahab Alkebsi on www.realclearworld.org.
From the Botswana Gazette: “Public Services International supports civil servants’ strike”
A collaborative outlook by 28 Experts. Slideshare presentation.
BridgeIT is a program that uses mobile phones to bring educational videos to rural classrooms – a mobile teaching tool deployed in The Philippines and Tanzania, which is changing the way teachers and students interact.
Pan Africa eLearning for the Environment Network, 2010
The Africa Competitiveness Report (2011, World Economic Forum) highlights areas where they need an urgent policy action and investment to ensure that Africa sustains its economic recovery and quality of life continues to grow in the future.
Illegal emigration from Africa to Europe is a hard, risky and costly adventure with no guarantee of success. Some try it again and again; some stop in a transit country and never reach their final destination; for others this will be the last trip of their lives.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai speaks on the relationship between scarce natural resources and global conflict.
Interesting blog by Christiane Badgley writing about Oil Stories in Africa.
