• The Trouble with the Congo

    The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003–2006). Grassroots rivalries over land, resources, and political power motivated widespread violence. However, a dominant peacebuilding culture shaped the intervention strategy in a way that precluded action on local conflicts, ultimately dooming the international efforts to end the deadliest conflict since World War II. Most international actors interpreted continued fighting as the consequence of national and regional tensions alone. UN staff and diplomats viewed intervention at the macro levels as their only legitimate responsibility. The dominant culture constructed local peacebuilding as such an unimportant, unfamiliar, and unmanageable task that neither shocking events nor resistance from select individuals could convince international actors to reevaluate their understanding of violence and intervention.  more[...]

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  • Top 10 Corporate Responsibility Stories of 2012

    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business

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    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business 
     
  • African leaders urged to invest in jobs, infrastructure and protecting development gains

    African Development Bank (AfDB)

    n unprecedented gathering of experts in Kigali, present and former African Heads of State urged business, community and political leaders to help turn the continent’s impressive growth into economic opportunities for ordinary citizens.  more[...]

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  • Africa’s social diversity: an asset for democracy

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

    African leaders, international organizations and civil society representatives will meet in Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, for the next three days to discuss Africa’s diverse social fabric and how it can serve as an asset for democracy and development.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Social dialogue needed to prevent further violence in SA mines, says ILO

    As an inquiry begins into the fatal August shooting of dozens of striking miners in South Africa, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has called for high-level social dialogue in order to prevent further violence and unrest.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Report Slams Failure to Prevent Toxic Waste Dumping in West Africa

    Amnesty International

    Trafigura, the multinational company behind the 2006 dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, resulting in over 100,000 people seeking medical assistance, must be criminally investigated in the UK, Amnesty International and Greenpeace Netherlands conclude in a major new report released today.  more[...]

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  • FAO releases first status report on urban gardening in Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization

    Africa's urban population is growing faster than that of any other region, but many of its cities are not keeping pace with the increasing demand for food that comes with that growth. A new FAO publication says policymakers need to act now to ensure that African cities will be "green" enough to meet their nutrition and income needs in a sustainable way.  more[...]  login_required

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  • South-South Exchange of Know-How is Essential for Africa’s Economic Future, Says AfDB President

    African Development Bank (AfDB)

    South-South investment and exchange of know-how are key sources of growth and prosperity in Africa – and Huajian Group of China’s experience in Ethiopia is really edifying. That was the message the President of the African Development Bank Group, Donald Kaberuka, gave in his address at the opening of a high-level seminar on September 7 in Tunis.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Education, Community, and Social Equality

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Arab African International Bank believes in investment in youth for a better future and realizes that its influence as a leading private institution has grown in parallel with its competitiveness. Arab African International Bank was the first bank in Egypt and the region to launch an education program for undergraduates in various universities across the country and offers awards for creative ideas.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Food Security for Africa: an urgent global Challenge

    Albert Sasson, European Commission

    On September 14, 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published its estimates concerning the number of people suffering from hunger in 2010: 925 million. This figure was below the 1,020 billion in 2009, but it was higher than the number reached before the 2008 global food crisis. The 2010 figure corresponded to 13.5% of the world population, while the 2015 objective (millennium development goal (MDG) number 1) was 8%. The FAO concluded that we were still far from achieving MDG 1, that is, halving the number of hungry people worldwide by 2015.  more[...]  login_required

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    Albert Sasson, European Commission 
     
  • South Africa: ITUC Condemns Lonmin Killings

    International Trade Union Confoderation

    The ITUC has described the wave of violence at South Africa’s Lonmin Marikana platinum mine as appalling, with as many as 36 killed yesterday when police opened fire on striking miners. 10 people had previously been killed in the past week as violence at the mine escalated.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Africa

    Editorial Team

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  • Abdel Ghaly, Perihan

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  • New Project for Sustainable Investments in Africa

    Gustav Johansson, Singularis Advisors

    Over the past decade, real GDP growth for Africa rose at more than double its pace compared to the 90′s. FDI from international investors has played a major role in this development and investments in Africa have become an important part of any diversified Emerging Market portfolio.  more[...]  login_required

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    Gustav Johansson, Singularis Advisors 
     
  • Press Review Africa - March 2012

    Malte Jonas Klingenhäger, macondo publishing GmbH

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    Malte Jonas Klingenhäger, macondo publishing GmbH 
     
 
 
 
 

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