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BY POORNA RODRIGO

A WAVE of high profile corruption cases and a growing range of commercial crimes have swept the South Asian archipelago of Maldives. Some cases have prompted Interpol red notices while others have run into long-drawn court battles, hurting investor confidence.…

BY ANDREW GREEN, IN KAMPALA

Uganda is undergoing a higher education boom. The result of introducing universal primary education in 1997 and universal secondary education a decade later is a surplus of students looking for a university placement. Uganda’s 30 public and private universities offer 50,000 spots for qualified secondary school graduates.…

BY GEORGE STONE, IN CAPE TOWN

It is part of the accountancy profession’s faith that good honest financial reporting and dealings can promote economic growth because of the commercial trust that it engenders. And maybe nowhere can the case be made more strongly than in Africa.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, IN CAPE TOWN; MOHAMMED YUSUF, IN NAIROBI; AND KEITH NUTHALL

A BOOK launched at last December’s Durban international climate change conference has focused on the growing potential for sugar to be a biofuel feedstock in Africa. ‘Bioenergy for Sustainable Development and International Competitiveness:

The Role of Sugar Cane in Africa’ was written by 44 authors representing 30 organisations in 16 countries and was published by Routledge.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, IN NEW DELHI

THE INDIAN government is considering lifting its 25 year ban on issuing new asbestos mine licences, Industrial Minerals can reveal. A senior government mining official said in an exclusive interview that "the matter is under consideration"

BP Sinha, deputy director general of the Indian Bureau of Mines, based in Nagpur, Maharashtra, told Industrial Minerals that the central Ministry of Mines is exploring the possibility of reopening the asbestos mines, now mining companies have access to better technology for ensuring the health and safety of the workers.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, WACHIRA KIGOTHO, PAUL COCHRANE; and KEITH NUTHALL

SUB-SAHARAN Africa has always been regarded as a problem zone for air traffic control, with weak states struggling to provide the sophisticated and flexible communications required for state of the art ATC.…

BY CLEMENCE MANYUKWE

Zimbabwe tobacco output is bouncing back after a decade of decline; but can the country sustain growth in the industry?

After nearly ten years of plummeting production due to controversial agrarian reforms by Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, the African country’s tobacco output has finally surpassed the 100 million-kilogram mark for the second year running.…

BY MARK GODFREY

THE HEADLINES said it all. Chinese newspapers have recently been heavy with editorials and op-ed pieces largely favourable to nuclear power: among them ‘This Is Not the End of Nuke Power’ a half-page op-ed in the China Daily, the preferred conduit of China’s official thinking to foreign diplomats and executives.…

BY MARK GODFREY

IF uranium suppliers are looking for reasons to feel confident that China will continue its hunt for nuclear fuel supplies worldwide, they should remember how deeply the country is invested in this process. Indeed, it has been a sign of how hungry China has become for uranium that even private firms in this officially communist country are being allowed to hunt for overseas uranium assets.…

BY MARK GODFREY

IT is a sign of how hungry China has become for uranium that even private firms here are being allowed hunt for overseas uranium assets. New to the uranium market, Sichuan-based conglomerate Hanlong Energy joined a string of state-run procuring companies late last year when it invested US dollars USD5 million in Australia’s Marenica to dig for uranium in Namibia.…