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OECD MONITORING SYSTEM TO PREVENT ARMED GROUPS BENEFITING FROM GREAT LAKES' MINERALS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE is being applied to non-ferrous metal mining companies to follow an Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) code of practice that prevents them fuelling armed conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
Its countries have been witness to come of the worst human rights abuses and violence of the last 50 years: the genocide in Rwanda and the bloody civil war of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).…
AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY PLANS MAJOR NEW TANZANIA CAMPUS
BY MOHAMMED YUSUF
Aga Khan University plans major new Tanzania campus
Mohammed Yusuf
The Aga Khan University – the Pakistan-based international multi-site higher-education institution – is planning to open a new campus in Arusha, Tanzania. The campus would house an arts and science faculties and educate up to 3,000 students from across east Africa.…
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA MAKES STEADY PROGRESS ON ATM SYSTEMS
BY BILL CORCORAN
ALTHOUGH Sub-Saharan Africa is considered one of the least developed parts of the world in terms of air traffic management (ATM) systems, experts at the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have said the continent has made progress in recent years.…
EU-Africa university ties to be deepened
BY David Haworth
New plans for broadening the two-way street between African and European universities were unveiled at a conference in Brussels when 150 delegates from both continents debated closer ties in higher education.
The conference focused on the newly published White Paper on bridging arrangements between institutions and greater cooperation between European scholars and their counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa.…
INNOVATIVE PACKAGING TRANSFORMING GLOBAL DRINKS PACKAGING INDUSTRY
BY MARK ROWE
INNOVATIVE packaging is transforming the drinks industry. Heavy tins and bottles are being replaced by lighter composite and biodegradeable materials; hi-tech cartons are being manufactured that tell consumers if the milk’s gone off; and RFID (radio frequency identification) tags are being embedded with temperature sensors.…
EMERGING MARKETS WITNESSING CREATIVITY IN DRINKS PACKAGING DEVELOPMENT
BY WANG FANGQING, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, BILL CORCORAN, PACIFICA GODDARD, KEITH NUTHALL
DRINKS packaging can be quite different in emerging and developing markets than in the rich world. One issue simply is scale. Poorer consumers are often, simply, more interested in smaller sized portions than richer.…
Can a common history syllabus be developed for Africa?
By Keith Nuthall, International News Services
Historians are working with Unesco and educationalists to try to develop a common African history syllabus, including the teaching approach and pedagogical materials. The ambitious project will initially focus on helping primary and secondary schools and, this coming year, an assessment will consider how universities in Africa could benefit. But can history really be taught on a continent-wide basis?
Both projects draw on the eight volume Unesco-coordinated General History of Africa written from 1964 to 1999 which tried to create a standard for the continent written from an African rather than a colonial European perspective.
An evaluation study on using this general history in higher education throughout the continent will be written this year.…
SOMALIA'S SHIFTING SANDS OBSCURE HEALTHY TOBACCO TRADE
BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO
TO say Somalia is a mixed bag for the tobacco industry is an understatement. On the one hand, there is a very weak formal government, whose writ does not run in much of the country. So no public place smoking bans, advertising restrictions and ingredient controls to worry about in this east African country: tobacco is sold freely through a thriving private sector.…
EIB TO INVEST IN KENYA'S JOMO KENYATTA AIRPORT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has started financing a major planned upgrade of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya, which will boost its annual capacity from 2.5 million to 9.3 million passengers. The EIB will be co-financing the project with US dollars USD99 million, alongside USD93 million from France’s Agence Francaise de Developpement.…
Can a common history syllabus be developed for Africa?
By Keith Nuthall
Historians are working with Unesco and educationalists to try to develop a common African history syllabus, including the teaching approach and pedagogical materials. The ambitious project will initially focus on helping primary and secondary schools across the continent and, this coming year, an assessment will consider how universities in Africa could benefit from such work.…