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SUGAR OFFERS AFRICAN BIOFUEL PRODUCERS A FEEDSTOCK - BUT DEVELOPMENT WILL BE CHALLENGING
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.…
UNAIDS WELCOMES KENYAN COURT DECISION ON GENERIC DRUGS CONTROLS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN agency charged with fighting HIV/AIDS has welcomed a decision by the Kenya high court that an existing national law fighting fake drugs is too loosely worded and could promote the seizure of generic medicines made by legitimate manufacturers.…
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.…
CORRUPTION IN KENYA: A BARRIER TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT
BY ALYSHAH HASHAM
KENYA, and its capital Nairobi, is the business hub of east Africa. It also has the reputation of being one of the world’s most corrupt places – a place where bribery is an accepted part of doing business.…
CDM PROJECTS OFF TO A SLOW START IN AFRICA
BY GEORGE STONE
THE KYOTO Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has made slow progress in Africa, but schemes are slowly getting off the ground, led by programmes in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.
Under the United Nations-backed CDM process, projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to sustainable development can earn saleable certified emission reduction (CER) credits.…
TOBACCO CONTROLS MAYBE GROWING - BUT THEY ARE OFTEN WEAK
BY AHMAD PATHONI, ALYSHAH HASHAM, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the constant flow of news about tougher tobacco industry regulations from all continents, tobacco executives could be forgiven for thinking there are no countries where they have a relative free hand to sell their products.…
SOMALI PIRACY AND THE SPECTRE OF MONEY LAUNDERING
BY PAUL COCHRANE
PIRACY has increased exponentially off the coast of Somalia in recent years, with ships hijacked deep into international waters despite the presence of a multi-national naval task force, and pirates demanding ever higher ransoms from shipping companies. But while the spoils of piracy are evident in coastal Somali towns, tracking down where the remaining millions of dollars disappear to is hard to pin down, with allegations circulating of ransom money entering the real estate markets of Kenya, to money laundering in Yemen and Dubai.…
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.…