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Africa Renewal - Volume 25, Issue 4, 2011
Volume 25, Issue 4, 2011
The Africa Renewal magazine examines the many issues that confront the people of Africa, its leaders and its international partners: sustainable development goals, economic reform, debt, education, health, women's empowerment, conflict and civil strife, democratization, investment, trade, regional integration and many other topics. It tracks policy debates. It provides expert analysis and on-the-spot reporting to show how those policies affect people on the ground. And, it highlights the views of policy-makers, non-governmental leaders and others actively involved in efforts to transform Africa and improve its prospects in the world today. The magazine also reports on and examines the many different aspects of the United Nations’ involvement in Africa, especially within the framework of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).
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Social media for a social cause
Author: Kingsley IghoborJulie Gichuru is an awardwinning Kenyan television journalist rated by Forbes business magazine in 2011 as one of the “20 youngest powerful women in Africa.” Ms. Gichuru has a reputation as an engaging TV host, stirring up her audience against corruption and sometimes poking fun at the vagaries of life.
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Africa’s famine response — too little, perhaps too late
Author: Kingsley IghoborJerry Rawlings, a former president of Ghana and now the high representative for Somalia for the African Union (AU), visited a number of African capitals in July and August to drum up support for a pan-African conference on the famine in the Horn of Africa. “I believe African leadership will rise to the challenge,” he said over and over as he lobbied heads of state to attend the conference. But only four (from Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Djibouti and Somalia) actually came to the 18 August gathering in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Millennium villages: A lasting impact?
Author: Bill HinchbergerHaruni Odhiambo Nyariru is making an addition to his home. Martin Omondi Onyango bought a cow and a goat, covers his younger brother’s school fees and is building a house for his mother. Now that she is harvesting 30 bags of maize (of 90 kilogrammes each) instead of 12 from her two acres, Wilfreda Ongonda Ochieng says that her family is eating better and that she has a surplus to sell. These farmers attribute the small but real changes in their lives to gains made since the advent of the Sauri Millennium Villages Project in western Kenya.
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Lesotho’s economy catches flu — from big brother’s sneeze
Author: Masimba TafirenyikaFor decades the tiny landlocked mountain kingdom of Lesotho has relied heavily on its giant neighbour, South Africa, to advance — until now. South Africa’s economic difficulties are placing Lesotho’s economy at a crossroads, as the government struggles to push big rocks up the mountain to balance the national budget.
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‘In 10 years, NEPAD has achieved a lot’ - Interview: Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency
Author: Ibrahim MayakiIn July 2001, African leaders adopted the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the road map for the continent’s development. The following year a resolution of the UN General Assembly supported NEPAD as the main channel for UN assistance to Africa. More recently, in January 2010, the NEPAD structures were fully integrated into the African Union as the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency. Since its adoption a decade ago, how much has the plan achieved? In a frank, plain-talking interview, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, the chief executive officer of the NEPAD Agency, responded to Africa Renewal’s André-Michel Essoungou.
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‘A common vision for agriculture-led growth’ - Interview: Glenn Denning, director of the Centre on Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute
Author: United NationsGlenn Denning is director of the Centre on Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute in New York, and was previously director of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. He talks to Africa Renewal about the role of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) in strengthening the continent’s agricultural potential.
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NEPAD on the ground
Author: United NationsOver the past 10 years, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has launched a number of bold and innovative programmes. In some instances the plan is already scoring notable yet underreported gains. Africa Renewal highlights NEPAD’s impact in five key areas.
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‘Peer pressure can be powerful’ - Interview: Amos Sawyer, African Peer Review Mechanism
Author: Amos SawyerIn 2003 the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the continental development plan, initiated the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Since then 30 countries have joined the voluntary arrangement. Members have their governance practices reviewed through national consultations and discussions with APRM review panels and African heads of state. How well has this process been working, and what lies ahead? A member of the APRM’s Panel of Eminent Persons, Amos Sawyer — who was Liberia’s interim president in 1990–94 and currently chairs that country’s Governance Commission — spoke with Africa Renewal’s managing editor, Ernest Harsch. (For the full interview, see Africa Renewal online.)
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Improving Africa’s governance, before it’s too late
Authors: David Mehdi Hamam and Ben Idrissa OuédraogoThe ongoing agitation in Africa triggered by the “Arab Spring” demonstrates yet again the importance of good political and economic governance for the continent’s development. Through their street demonstrations, Africans are expressing their will to reassert control over their own destinies. They are struggling for dignity, freedom, genuine social justice and access to economic opportunities.
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Dialing for cash: Mobile transfers expand banking
Author: Anna McGovernMore people in Africa’s poorest countries have mobile phones than have bank accounts. That reality is spurring mobile service companies to explore how they can capture a share of the potential banking market by enabling migrants from these countries to transfer funds back home to their families.
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