The Peepoo bag is a personal single use toilet, that sanitises the human excreta and transforms them into manure.

“It is calm, very calm at the moment, but it remains unpredictable.”

Enrolling the world’s poorest children in school needs new thinking, not just more money from taxpayers.

Tomorrow’s fugitive will live in a slum, not under canvas

Did Israeli individuals and companies break the law regarding military exports?

Africa does not seem to be an exception to the rule that, as countries get richer, they experience a demographic transition.

The conventional view of Africa as a genocide inside a failed state inside a dictatorship is, in fact, wrong.

In countries that should be setting an example — South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya — the war on corruption has suffered major setbacks before rapacious and ruthless politicians; in Burundi and the Congo Republic, anticorruption campaigners have been killed.
Read more: Grand Larceny Africa (New York Times)

The latest symbol of an old and sturdy alliance: a $50 million, 50,000-seat stadium.

The IMF says some African countries can spend their way out of recession.
Read more: Africa’s economies in the downturn (economist.com)

“Nachhaltige Bioenergie ist eine Waffe, mit der westafrikanische Länder die Armut bekämpfen können”
Im Auftrag der UEMOA und des “Rural Hub for Western and Central Africa”, einem west-afrikanischen NGO-Netzwerk für ländliche Entwicklungen, fand der Bericht heraus, daß diese erdölimport-abhängigen Länder genügend anbaufähiges Land und Wälder besitzen, um ausreichend Nahrungsvorräte zu erzeugen und gleichzeitig Biomasse für die Produktion von großen Mengen an Bioenergie für den eigenen Bedarf zu produzieren.

The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan’s government militarily in Darfur.

The Panorama TV programme tracked down Chinese army lorries in the Sudanese province that came from a batch exported from China to Sudan in 2005.

Gold is gaining new interest nowadays. For those who became soiled over and over by digging for it gold hardly offers any bright prospects.

The Zimbabwe case should be more than a tragedy for its own people