Cultural Goods Remain Economic Driver in Digital Age – UNESCO Report
A United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report launched today finds that the trade in cultural goods doubled from 2004 to 2013 despite a global recession and a massive shift among consumers of movies and music towards web-based services. The study from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), The Globalisation of Cultural Trade: […]
Can the Throw-Away Fashion Industry Lead a New Trend Toward Sustainability?
After oil, fashion is the most polluting industry on the globe, believes Simone Cipriani, founder of the Ethical Fashion Initiative. But as many industries, from automobiles to agriculture, try to make their products and processes greener, the fashion industry – hardly a leader in conversations on reducing climate change – is starting to shift as […]
Africa: Older Women Face Hardships, Discrimination, Report Shows
Millions of older women in Africa face health, economic and social problems which are inadequately addressed by government policies without providing lasting solutions, even as the world celebrates International Women’s Day. Global Age Watch Index Report 2015 published by HelpAge international and sent to CISA states that “older people all over the world experience many […]
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe will not pick successor, wants to live to 100
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe says his successor must be chosen democratically and that his wife will not automatically inherit the role, a warning to feuding members of his ZANU-PF party that he is still in charge after 36 years in power. The comments from Africa’s oldest leader, now aged 92, are his clearest indication that […]
‘Sometimes when I’m alone with my baby, I think about killing him. He reminds me of the man who raped me.’
The neighborhood is a patchwork of low-slung buildings scorched and looted at the height of the civil war, a place where the United Nations was supposed to come to the rescue. But in a number of homes, women and girls are raising babies they say are the children of U.N. troops who abused or exploited […]
China’s Mobile Payment Revolution Is Going to Africa
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — With the launch of Apple Pay in mainland China on Feb. 18, Apple has become the first foreign player to secure a place at the table for China’s enormous mobile payment market. The company will be battling for market share with e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Wallet, which […]
Welcome to Mirabel: the first centre supporting rape survivors in Nigeria
When Imade was seven years old her teacher began to sexually abuse her after school. “He [told] me I was a smart and beautiful girl and gave me little sums of money,” says Imade, now 24. One day, he raped her. Imade told her mother, who complained to the school. “They fired him, but that […]
Egypt Business Forum Promotes Key African Ties
Sharm el-Sheikh — Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el Sisi is calling on African leaders to invest in education so that the continent’s peoples can acquire the skills to contribute to the region’s economic growth. “Africa needs to concentrate on transforming societies .. using innovation and research as a basis for future success,” he said . […]
Conflict Grows Out of Inequality and Exclusion
For a while Africans enthusiasm with the good economic performance of the continent has had a contagious lazy effect in many minds. It was as if the road to a new continental status was a given, even though we were all too busy approving many frameworks and strategies, centered on the need for real structural […]
Obama Signs Africa Electricity Plan Into Law
US President Barack Obama has signed into law an initiative aimed at bringing electricity to 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020. The Electrify Africa Act of 2015 will give legal backing to Mr Obama’s flagship Power Africa scheme, which is trying to improve access to electricity through public-private partnerships. It took nearly two […]
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