African Affairs

  AFRICA Divergent fortunes Nigeria Norway $400bn oil revenue stolen or misspent since 1960 Norway's sovereign fund worth $670bn (2012) Nigeria's treasury loses $6bn a year to oil theft Norway's annual oil revenue is $40bn Nigerian GNI per ca...
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  Africa: The Industrialization Agenda AfricaFocus Bulletin Apr 2, 2013 (130402) (Reposted from sources cited below) Editor's Note It seems to be the season for economic reports and meetings, with the IMF issuing a critique of subsidies for fossil fuels, the UNDP's Human Developme...
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  http://allafrica.com/stories/201303300038.html?viewall=1 Africa: India Lays Down Strategy to Broaden Trade With Africa BY JAMES WAITHAKA, 29 MARCH 2013   The India sub-continent is not content with the current trade levels between it and the 54 African economies; and it is not ...
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  U.S. Military Personnel Arrive In Niger: Obama In Letter To Congress Reuters  |  Posted: 02/22/2013 6:30 pm EST  |  Updated: 02/23/2013 9:14 am EST WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - The Pentagon has deployed about 100 troops to the West African nation of Niger to conduct...
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Associated Press Togo women push sex strike to unseat president In this Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012 photo, female opposition leader Isabelle Ameganvi calls on Togo's women to observe a one-week sex strike beginning Monday, in Lome, Togo. The female wing of a civil rights group is urging wome...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17775211 Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface. The team have produced...
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  11 February 2011 Last updated at 11:33 ET Egypt crisis: President Hosni Mubarak resigns as leader Hosni Mubarak has decided to step down as president of Egypt. In an announcement on state TV, Vice-President Omar Suleiman said Mr Mubarak had handed power to the military. It came as th...
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Africa is changing. There are tremendous opportunities in the continent. If there is something Diaspora Africans should learn from the developed west especially, it would be the principles of pragmatism. Let’s stop talking about how real problems in Africa are; let’s start solving p...
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    NEW MEMBERS: *(Chair): Darius Mans, president of Africare, Washington, D.C., and former Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. *Pamela L. Carter, president of Cummins Distribution, Columbus, Ind.; *Maureen A. Harrington, director, Corporate and Invest...
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The world, particularly Africa, is agog with the news of Barack Obama’s triumphant entry to Ghana this week, Obama-mania erupting across the nation. Whilst some African nations are busy licking their wounds, making various excuses for why the most powerful and popular man in the world chose Gh...
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