Notice Board
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3rd IREN Eastern Africa High School Debate |
| This year’s theme is ‘Save to invest and grow the economy.’... |
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IREN Intra- East Africa Farmer Exchange |
| The regional food shortage puts to test the ability of the government to plan and ensure food security for its citizenry. Can farmers exchange ideas on value addition, profitability and independence from food aid?... |
Business Calendar
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7th ARB Meeting: Interrogating Governance and Prosperity in Africa |
| IREN invites scholars, politicians, policy makers, civil society members, and business leaders among others to the 7th Africa Resource Bank meeting... |
Agri Focus
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Agricultural Stewardship Tips |
| Access information on safe farming practices, various farming equipment and good product stewardship information on the link provided.... |
Development
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Economic Bailouts or Africa's Betrayal? |
| If you look at the history of Africa, no country has ever escaped colonial legacy-cum-machinations.... |
Q&A
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Analyzing Darfur's Conflict of Definitions |
| Why do you think the term "genocide" has been used to describe the conflict in Darfur but not in Congo or Iraq despite the similarities in the conflicts that pit the "state" against an "insurgency"?... |
Regions
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Spotlight on Ghana’s 2009 Budget |
| To promise recapitalization without voting considerable funds for it, and to refuse to commit government to either full direct subsidization or acquiescence to full cost recovery by the SOEs, is to significantly devalue government’s industrial policy for the coming year.... |
Commentary
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Nigeria And The World of Informants And Espionage |
| Outside of Nigeria espionage is very important. Therefore, if Nigerians living in South Africa or in Southern Africa and elsewhere are “selling out their country and their countrymen,” they are simply continuing a practice that is commonplace in Nigeria.... |
Finance and Banking
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The Mauritian Economy on a Razor’s Edge |
| As far back as 1936, John Maynard Keynes argued that monetary policy is ineffective under conditions of economic depression but that fiscal policy is the remedy in such circumstances.... |
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Global Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Investments In Africa |
| Should Africa remain complacent, the effects of the financial crunch will be very considerable for the continent.... |
News Round Up
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Madagascar President to Resign |
| The besieged Madacascar president, Marc Ravalomanana, appeared headed out of office on Tuesday after opposition leader Andry Rajoelina took over a presidential palace which soldiers loyal to him had seized overnight.... |
Feature
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Stimulus Package: The New Zealand Brand |
| In a 6 March interview with Mary Kissel of the Wall Street Journal titled "You Can’t Spend Your Way Out of the Crisis," Key described the massive stimulus packages of the US, Japanese and Australian governments as “risky.”... |
Agriculture
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African Development Bank and AGRA Address Fertilizer Financing |
| “The need to develop and implement a strategic investment programme to increase the availability and use of fertilizers in Africa is urgent,” says Dr Akin Adesina,... |
Report
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Africa's Ultimate Question Series: Part I |
| It was agreed that African citizens ought to utilize their power as consumers to regulate media, as government regulation is counter- productive.... |
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AU Hosts 4th African International Media Summit |
| In his opening remarks, Mr. Mwencha stressed that Africa has a lot of positive things to be reported in the media... |
Human Rights
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Is the ICC Targeting Africa and the Third World Countries? |
| What effort has the ICC made to prosecute the Western defence companies and contractors who have turned Africa into graveyards? What effort has the ICC made to prosecute the 85 companies who were implicated in a UN report of October 2002 for supplying arms to Uganda and Rwanda... |
