Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

Nigeria under siege

Africa’s most populous nation risks becoming the new battleground for the global war on terror

by Jonathon Gatehouse - Saturday, May 25, 2013
Africa gets on the Monopoly board

Why build a house on Boardwalk when you can build a hotel on Banana Island?

by Rosemary Westwood - Monday, January 7, 2013
Cheap beer made from cassava and sorghum launched in Africa

SABMiller sells Impala as healthy alternative to moonshine

by Stephanie Findlay - Monday, December 17, 2012
Bill C-398 defeated

A sufficient number of Conservatives voted against Bill C-398 tonight to defeat the private…

by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Why cheap phones are a force of good

In other words: Android = free software = more competition among hardware makers

by Peter Nowak - Friday, September 28, 2012
When it comes to bogus health reporting and policy, it really is a small world

Science-ish reports from Ethiopia

by Erica Alini - Friday, August 31, 2012
An African health minister’s dilemmas

The Cola Road, Week 3: Claire Ward in conversation with Dr. Joseph Kasonde

by Claire Ward - Friday, August 24, 2012
A different kind of Chinese investment in Africa…

…soccer players, that is

by Aaron Hutchins - Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Cola Road, Week 1: How Coke crates could save lives

Documenting the launch of a radically new aid distribution model in rural Africa

by Claire Ward - Thursday, August 2, 2012
Dambisa Moyo on resource scarcity, and China’s race for deals

Economist Dambisa Moyo in conversation with Brian Bethune

by Brian Bethune - Monday, June 4, 2012
The trouble with ‘Kony 2012’

Celebrated Canadian author M.G. VASSANJI on Africa’s missing voice in the viral video media storm

by M.G. VASSANJI - Thursday, March 15, 2012
‘To the benefit of large corporations’

The Liberals are unimpressed with the Conservatives’ use of foreign aid funds.
“The Liberal…

by Aaron Wherry - Friday, January 20, 2012
Is this foreign aid?

Elizabeth Payne wonders what’s going on at CIDA.
Oda announced four CIDA projects –…

by Aaron Wherry - Thursday, January 19, 2012
Tanzania: land of constant complaints

The country seems well, but corruption is rampant

by M.G. Vassanji - Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wal-Mart goes to Africa

The big-box behemoth is making moves in African retail

by Emma Teitel - Friday, June 17, 2011
Congolese women are being raped at a rate of one almost every minute

A study on sexual violence in Congo reveals a nearly inconceivable situation

by Jenn Cutts - Thursday, May 26, 2011
This week: Good news, bad news

Are the Vancouver Canucks the prohibitive Cup favourites?

by macleans.ca - Friday, April 8, 2011
Crossing The Heart Of Africa

Book by Julian Smith

by Patricia Dawn Robertson - Thursday, February 24, 2011
Grace under fire

He didn’t foresee the long-running sex abuse scandal suddenly igniting, but the Pope showed surprising openness in dealing with it

by Brian Bethune - Thursday, December 9, 2010
Kitchen crusade

Peter C. Newman on a restaurateur to the rich who now wants to build schools in Africa

by Peter C. Newman - Thursday, November 25, 2010