Why Forests are Key to Climate, Water, Health, and Livelihoods
March 21, the International Day of Forests, is an opportunity to highlight the central role forests play in ecology and ...
Tag: Africa
Ghana aims to leverage mining revenues
A reform package geared towards improving regulation of Ghana’s mining operations aims to unlock new investment and boost government receipts. ...
M-Pesa shows why mobile money is yet to realize its true potential in Africa
Last November, “60 Minutes”, the flagship news magazine show on US television network CBS, ran a whole segment on M-Pesa, ...
Turn your business into a “technology company” (Part 3). -Harness the future!
The other day I was watching a program about a young Chinese entrepreneur who created a restaurant that has no ...
Ghana @ 59, “A year to retirement”
History shows that, Ghana was the first country in Sub Saharan Africa to gain independence from its Colonial masters. Our ...
Harnessing the potential of mobile telephony to alleviate rural poverty
The explosion of information technology especially mobile telephony has enabled an enormous potential for wealth creation for individuals and communities. ...
Nigeria v South Africa: The battle for African supremacy
This week South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma visited Nigeria and stressed that Africa’s two economic giants could work together. Relations ...
What Africa needs to unlock its clean energy potential
Recently, the African Development Bank (AfDB) president, Akinwunmi Adesina, said Africa was yet to fully unlock its renewable/clean energy potential. ...
African Farmers Struggle to Feed Continent’s Booming Population
Farmers struggle with lack of funding, fertilizer, tractors African crop yields remain less than half global average Josephine Mbinya bends ...
Closing the Gender Gap: Lessons from Africa
We hear that girls in Africa don’t have the same opportunities as boys to get a decent education, that discrimination ...