West Africa’s cocaine coast The volume of seizures is going down but drugs are now being produced in laboratories in West Africa. ...
Guinea Bissau: Back to basics With the military increasingly tied up in battling the drugs trade, the civilian government is struggling to enact security-sector reform to ... support the judiciary
LRA building base in Congo’s Bas Uele The Lord's Resistance Army is brutally displacing people from the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports Ledio Cakaj from the ... Enough Project.
North Africa, a new consulting El Dorado Deloitte, KPMG, McKinsey: In Casablanca, Tunis and Algiers, auditing and consulting firms are arriving in force. The market in North Africa and ... the Middle East is already worth more than €2bn.
NGOs fight companies over a peanut patent When humanitarian ideals come up against intellectual property restrictions. ...
Long View: Creating bounty for a billion Chinese China has already approved some genetically modified crops, though policy-makers and researchers remain undecided about their safety. ...
Scientist Monty Jones on why Africa should not rule out GM Recipient of the World Food Prize in 2004 for his success in creating the New Rice for Africa (NERICA), Sierra Leonean scientist Monty Jones ... spoke to The Africa Report about the role of science in agricultural development.
Are the Millennium Development Goals useful for Africa? Ahead of a UN Millennium Development Goals summit in September, read views from experts arguing for and against the MDGs, and join in the ... debate.
Energy: Capacity to spare Hydroelectric projects need additional financing to meet regional and domestic demands, while the government tries to balance expansion with ... environmental concerns
Mining: High-stakes investment Mining projects are attracting plenty of international interest, but growth of the sector has been slowed by weak road and rail transportation ... leading to the country's ports