Businesses that weathered the storm Industrialists are a bullish breed and believe Zimbabwe will quickly regain its role as second largest economy in Southern Africa. ...
The long view: South America’s conditional cash transfer experience Cash rewards to families that send their kids to school and try to keep them healthy have proven successful; their application in Brazil is ... now being reassessed to make them work better
The Akan shrine near the White House How some African-Americans in Washington DC look to Ghana for spiritual enlightenment as well as contact with ?the ancestors and the African ... gods of nature
Ghana/US: A stormy relationship comes good Relations between Accra and Washington have see-sawed between extremes. ...
Profile: Gabon’s presidential contenders Ali Ben Bongo, Minister of Defence - Pascaline Bongo, former head of the presidential cabinet - Pierre Mamboundou, Leader of the Union du Peuple ... Gabonais
Gabon: Keep the petrol flowing to French tanks Gabon's former President Omar Bongo Ondimba is remembered for a particular turn of phrase: "Africa without France is like a car without a driver. ... France without Africa is a car without gasoline."
Gabon: Country without a boss After the death of Omar Bongo Ondimba and with oil revenues beginning to slow, ?Gabon is at an unfamiliar and potentially destabilising ... crossroads
Interview: Kofi Annan on climate change Kofi Annan?, Former UN Secretary-General on the road to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009 ...
Climate Change: Africa fights back on its own terms An energetic array of green initiatives is sprouting up across Africa to protect natural resources, harness sustainable energy and spur ... green growth.
Mo Ibrahim: A way forward for Darfur For too long there has been a tedency to view the Darfur issue in isolation. The conflict is symptomatic of broader governance failures that ... affect the entire country of Sudan.
A long way to go Having proudly followed Ghana into independence in 1958, raising the hopes of pan-Africanists everywhere, Guineans have been let down by their ... rulers over ?the past 50 years
Interview: Nkosana Moyo The Vice President of the African Development Bank speaks to The Africa Report about Africa in the Crisis alongside articles from our archives ... on the impact the crisis is having in Africa.
Strength in exports to the rescue The prices of Ghana's main exports - cocoa and gold - remain strong ...
A time of new potential The benefits of a decade of good economic growth are threatened by the global crisis, but there are good signs from Ghana's new government ...
Company Profile: Afren An African energy minnow is slowly building up regional assets and expertise and has ambitions in liquefied natural gas ...
Jatropha: Oil from the soil Projects producing biodiesel that use oil from the jatropha plant are intensifying across Africa ...
Nigeria: More go-slows ahead for oil reforms Reform of the national oil company is being snagged by a combination of political considerations and conspiracies ...
A way out of the tunnel International institutions are prescribing higher social spending, more flexible monetary policy and a watchful eye on the banks. ...
Uganda: Looking to the upside Despite the ongoing discovery of substantial oil reserves, Uganda is still some way from moving into production mode ...
Angola LNG gather more customers Angola plans to have its $8bn liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant running by 2012. ...
