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The remittance industry is failing those who need it most – By Dr Ismail Ahmed, founder of WorldRemit
The remittance market in Africa has for too long been monopolised by companies imposing very high fees that are on average three times those charged on ... -
Kenya: Tana Delta violence – is there worse to come? – By Nuur Mohamud Sheekh and Jason Mosley
In Kenya, ahead of the 2013 elections, attention is turning to sources of tension that could fuel the kind of poll-related violence seen at the end ... -
A polemic against NGOs and the destruction of local innovation – By Jeremy Weate
The development sector has for the past few years been criticised for being ineffectual. This has come both from ex-insiders, such as Owen Barder and William ... -
Somalia: The Kismaayo Conundrum(s) – By Abdi Aynte
If insecurity was the thorniest problem that plagued Somalia’s previous governments, the new one will be dogged by multiple political challenges. Chief among those is the ... -
How to bring education to the poor in Africa – By Richard Dowden
In 2006 some friends of mine were given $5 million by Lisbet Rausing for education in Uganda. They set up an NGO called Mvule (named after ... -
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: “Leymah Gbowee is too young to know what we’ve done to reach peace and security in our country” – By Magnus Taylor
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, combines a matriarchal exterior with a sophisticated economist’s intelligence. First elected in to office in 2006, she has headed a ... -
Ghana: Security Forces and Civil Society Weigh in on Mining Sector – By Kissy Agyeman-Togobo
Mining is probably Ghana’s most established industry. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the as yet un-formed country was the world’s biggest producer of gold, constituting ... -
Kenya and the Obamas: a half sister and an election – By Magnus Taylor
I was in Kenya at the time of Barack Obama’s election to US President back in 2008. Actually, I was in Uganda on the night of ... -
Uganda: battle over national oil company reveals strains of the sector – By Angelo Izama
When Beatrice Atim Anywar received a call from a reporter to ask if her daughter had applied for a scholarship with an oil company, she laughed: ... -
Rhino poaching in South Africa: organised crime and economic opportunity driving trade – By Keith Somerville
As you enter the region of Hoedspruit in South Africa’s Limpopo province – the gateway to the world famous Kruger National Park – you see big ...
