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USB Launches New Degree to Help Unlock Investment Opportunities in Africa

Source: AllAfrica.com, Nov 26 2012, 4:23am CST

According to recent reports, the issuing of bonds in Africa is on the rise to help countries on the continent finance their infrastructure spending. Financing infrastructure projects in the energy, roads and railways and so ...

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G8 pledges strong support for AfDB infrastructure agenda

Source: Zawya.com  |   Jun 20 2013, 4:52am CDT

AfDB President Donald Kaberuka welcomed the G8 communiqué "The G8 urges multilateral development institutions to establish and prioritise, as part of ongoing work on International Development Association-17, African Development Fun ...

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Development Impact Bonds - a new business model for development?

Source: Humanitarian News  |   Jun 20 2013, 3:40am CDT

You are a health official in Uganda, and you’re watching a crisis unfold. Your people have long suffered from epidemics of sleeping sickness, one of Africa’s biggest killers. There is no vaccine and the only ...

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"We want graduates to have a comprehensive knowledge overview of their chosen discipline and become exposed to the debates and theories on that study. This means they will specialise in a specific discipline, rather than just one topic within that field of study"


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Africa: Developing World Bucks Decline in Green Energy Funding

Source: AllAfrica.com  |   Jun 20 2013, 3:33am CDT

Spending on renewable energy is undergoing a geographic shift, with developing countries investing more last year despite an overall 12 per cent drop in global spending since 2011, according to two reports published this week (12 June). The rep ...

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Exploring Africa through its films

Source: Republica  |   Jun 20 2013, 12:45am CDT

KATHMANDU, June 19: On the second day of the Nepal Africa Film Festival, films like Yesterday’s Slave, Burma in my Mind, Hotel Rwanda, Kinyarwanda and Screaming Man were screened at the Russian Cultural Centre in Kamalpokhari. This is the t ...

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African students in Changsha hyperthermia-induced heat stroke

Source: Silicon India  |   Jun 19 2013, 11:15pm CDT

How is hot in Changsha? Students from Africa are too much. Recently triggered a South African student heatstroke posts hot. Today, the reporter interviewed a number of African origin living in Changsha survey ...

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Obama’s African outlook splits opinion ahead of visit

Source: Capital FM  |   Jun 19 2013, 10:05pm CDT

DAKAR, Jun 20 – Days ahead of only his third official African visit, analysts are split over whether Barack Obama has been overlooking a golden goose in his ancestral continent or shrewdly dodging a white elephant. The 44th US president ins ...

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8 hours ago

US dilemma vs Sino-African opportunities

Source: China Daily  |   Jun 19 2013, 8:31pm CDT

Many misappropriate the phrase "all politics is local" in our ever-globalizing society. They prioritize the significance of what happens on the home front above the events unfolding on the world stage and, for a va ...

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Ajakaye works for a Lagos Public Relations firm

Source: THISDAY LIVE  |   Jun 19 2013, 6:43pm CDT

BOOK REVIEW: EMERGING AFRICA: HOW THE GLOBAL ECONOMY’S “LAST FRONTIER” CAN PROSPER AND MATTER Author: Kingsley C. Moghalu Publishers: Bookcraft, Ibadan Reviewer: Abdul-Ganiyu Garba, Department of Economics, A.B.U., Zari ...

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Donors mull L.Victoria infrastructural development

Source: Daily Monitor   |   Jun 19 2013, 6:06pm CDT

ENTEBBE- Donor countries have resolved to boost infrastructure development on the Lake Victoria basin to spur economic growth. Lake Victoria benefits five countries; Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda, with fishing and agri ...

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