Trade not aid. It’s an idea we hear quite a bit in reference to Africa. Last summer, when Barack Obama addressed the African Union – the first US president to do so – he made sure to bring it up: “So many Africans have told me, we don’t want just aid, we want trade that fuels progress.” …
Mr Huang, a Chinese national, has given himself the screen name 'Seek dreams in Africa' on his WeChat account, the popular text and voice messaging service developed by China’s Tencent. While his two sons and wife live in Canada, Mr Huang spends most of his time in Zambia. He has also worked in Algeria and …
The annual letter from the Gates Foundation calls for an "energy miracle" — the creation of a cheap and clean source of energy to get power to the 1.2 billion people on the planet without electricity. "We need to try lots of crazy-seeming ideas so we can find a few that help us solve the world's energy challenge," Bill Gates …
Corruption continues to make headlines with stories ranging from ever-expanding FIFA indictments, to British American Tobacco’s bribery of African officials, to the Petrobras saga that has led to the impeachment proceedings of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. And sadly, this list of seemingly isolated incidents could go on. The World Economic Forum estimates corruption accounts for 5 percent …
One day not so long ago, I woke up and there was no power in my home. That meant no water for a bath and no way to cook breakfast. My building in Lusaka, Zambia, does not have a generator, and the landlord has not yet been convinced of the value of solar panels. I …