by Chika Ezeanya: On the 28th of January, 2012 African countries will collectively descend to a new low on the global index of state sovereignty, territorial integrity and actual independence of nations. On that day, Chinese President Hu Jintao will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to commission the new $124 Million African Union Headquarters built and donated to the…
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 26 January 2012 – African leaders called for greater market integration on the continent, the freeing-up of border controls and more coordination in developing infrastructure, with Alpha Condé, President of Guinea, advocating the establishment of several pan-African ministries to drive this process.“At the next African Union meeting, we must consider establishing three or four ministers for all…
On 26 January 2012, the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Honourable Mr Ezekiel Maige together with the Swedish Minister for Trade, Dr Ewa Björling, will host an international roundtable discussion in Dar es Salaam on how to prevent illegal trade with endangered species. The purpose is to enhance partnerships for the enforcement of national legislation and international treaties,…
PARIS, France, January 24, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ – In the first partnership of its kind, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation will provide more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with mobile access to Wikipedia – without incurring data usage charges. Orange (http://www.orange.com) and the Wikimedia Foundation today announced a major partnership designed…
Over the course of the past semester, I teamed up with fellow RPI IT student, Lorena Nicotra, to develop a project that would promote curriculum-driven technology use in primary schools in Tanzania. In response to the problem of neglected computer donations in Tanzanian schools, we wanted to come up with an idea that would help schools make effective, intuitive…
Davos, Switzerland, 23 January 2012 – A group of Young Global Leaders will pilot a non-profit initiative this spring, which aims to give the 1 billion mobile phone users living in poverty access to educational phone apps. Currently under development, AppBridge is an online platform to encourage talented software developers to link up with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community…
Dar es Salaam (IITA) – The push to increase the production of cassava in Tanzania has received a major boost with the recent official release of four new varieties that are tolerant to the deadly rot disease of the crop, the Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD) and resistant to the equally devastating Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD). The two diseases…
Davos, Switzerland, 23 January 2012 – The Open Forum Davos 2012 celebrates the 10th anniversary of the World Economic Forum’s open debate with the general public, with a programme this year that includes a timely discussion on the future of capitalism.Against a backdrop of increasing anger at the perceived failings of the current financial system, the Open Forum gives…
MIKI TASSENI: _ AFRICAN universities are in a perennial search for relevance, where theoretical work is conducted within known parameters of what is being sought, and that it conforms or otherwise reflects problems arising from being in Africa, rather than constituting an extension of problems which troubled people elsewhere. It is however uncertain that Africa can build a foundation…
MIKI TASSENI: THERE used to be no doubt in the past as to who was the global leader, namely the United States, but recent cataclysms which in actual fact were touched off by the failure of Lehman Brothers, a major US investment bank, put that into question. When the crisis broke out, competition started as to who would get…