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AFRICAN CUSTOMS MAKES SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS
BY BILL CORCORAN and ALAN OSBORN
IT is now some five years since a group of London-based multinationals, among them British American Tobacco (BAT), set up a group aimed at improving the conditions for doing business with and through Africa – named the Business Action for Improving Customs Administration in Africa (BAFICAA) initiative.…
AFRICA'S NEW OIL AND GAS LIONS: MAJORS ENTER THE REGION
BY GEORGE STONE
GHANA, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are Africa’s latest upstream hotspots as major energy firms seek new provinces outside of regional heavyweight oil producers Nigeria and Angola. But jockeying for position has already led to friction between governments and the industry.…
The parsimony of rich governments starves the world’s poor
By Alan Osborn, International News Services
Nature has dealt a string of savage blows to the world’s hungry and poor over the past year or so but just when we might have hoped for rich countries and individuals to help out by digging a bit deeper into their pockets, along comes the economic recession. The crunch may or may not have imposed genuine limits on the cash available to alleviate drought and famine but it has certainly given cautious people a wonderful excuse for doing less, especially after the record food aid donations of 2008.
In fact there’s been a succession of crop-destroying droughts, typhoons, floods and earthquakes in Africa and south-east Asia this year at the very time that needs are greater because of the rise in unemployment and the fall in remittances to home countries from nationals working abroad.…
UNODC LAUNCHES COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-CRIME INITIATIVE FOR EASTERN AFRICA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CONCERN about growing organised crime in east Africa has prompted the approval of a four-year campaign against the problem coordinated by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Endorsed by 13 ministers from regional governments at a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, there are three key focuses: countering illicit trafficking (of goods and people), organised crime and terrorism; fighting corrupt
ion and promoting justice and integrity within states; and improving health and human development.…
AFRICAN PHOTO CONTEST HIGHLIGHTS ECOACTIVISM
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE POWER of photographs to inspire sustainable development has been highlighted in a UN Development Programme (UNDP) contest. The ‘Picture This: Caring for the Earth’ competition, organised with the Olympus Corporation and the Agence France-Presse (AFP) was designed to show how "ordinary people work to preserve the environment and reduce the effects of climate change in their communities", said a UNDP note.…
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA OFFERS ECONOMIC PROMISE, BUT FRAUD STILL A MAJOR PROBLEM
BY STEVEN SWINDELLS and BILL CORCORAN, in Johannesburg; and WACHIRA KIGOTHO, in Nairobi
WITH sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile telecommunications sector growing healthily and its offshore oil sector showing signs of great promise in the short and medium term, the region – usually regarded as the world’s poorest and least stable – could be a zone of stability during the global recession.…
GEOTHERMAL BOUNTY LURKS BENEATH RIFT VALLEY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BOUNTY of cheap carbon free energy is lurking beneath many developing countries in the shape of geothermal power generation, with new technology making it cheaper and easier to source than ever before. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and Kenyan power company KenGen have carried out a demonstration project testing advanced seismic and drilling techniques to make geothermal power plants cheaper to build.…
PASSION FRUIT RESIDUE RULE SUGGESTED BY EFSA
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A RESIDUE limit for the pesticide trifloxystrobin for passion fruit from Kenya has been suggested by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which would boost imports into the European Union of this confectionery ingredient.
See http://www.efsa.europa.eu/cs/BlobServer/Scientific_Document/Trifloxystrobin_Passion%20fruit_RO_20081218.pdf?ssbinary=true
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INDONESIA PAINT INDUSTRY SET FOR GROWTH ONCE WORLD ECONOMY RECOVERS
BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIA’S paint industry appears likely to weather the worst of the global economic downturn. Indeed, Indonesia may be one of the few major countries where sales of paint for industrial and domestic use will rise. In January 2009, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono forecast economic growth of 6.2% for the year in a budget that revealed capital spending plans that were 14.3% up on 2008.…
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PUSHES FOR MORE ACTIVE EU AFRICA RESEARCH COOPERATION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has pushed for more concrete collaboration between African and European Union (EU) researchers, amidst concerns that grand declarations of altruistic intentions are failing to deliver cash or expertise.
A formal resolution passed by parliament members (MEPs) called for a "special emphasis [to] be placed on research into AIDS in African countries" within the EU’s ongoing seventh framework programme on research, which commands a huge Euro 53.2 billion budget, nearly three times the total GDP of Kenya.…