Countries, including Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Mauritius, Comoros, Madagascar and the Seychelles–which has already established the Ministry of Finance, Trade and the Blue Economy–are recognising the need to diversify their economies.
Hope, smiles and new vitality seem to be returning slowly but surely in various parts of the Sahel region, where the mighty Sahara Desert has all but ‘eaten’ and degraded huge parts of landscapes.
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 28 2018 (IPS) – Africa is rising. But at the same time, Africa is the continent with Read more
Senegalese immigrants began to arrive in Argentina in the 1990s and most of them joined the group of street vendors in Buenos Aires and other cities. But in recent months, they have suffered police brutality, denounced as a campaign of racial persecution.
STOCKHOLM, May 7 2018 (IPS) – Africa has long been one of the world’s most beleaguered continents – singled out Read more
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 2018 (IPS) – When some 276 teenage girls were kidnapped from their boarding school in northeastern Read more
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 19 2018 (IPS) – A new wave is sweeping across Africa. Elections on the continent are increasingly Read more
