“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.

Tags: Africa, Bioenergie, ESG, FAO, ICTSD, UEMOA, UN Foundation

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.

Tags: Africa, China, Darfur, genocide, Olympia, Sudan

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

Tags: Africa, Brazil, garimpeiros, Ghana, gold

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

Tags: Africa, China, Mugabe

By Lydia Polgreen (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008
The sense of political, social and economic malaise in Senegal, one of Africa’s most stable and admired countries, is unmistakable.

Tags: Africa, Senegal

By Jeffrey Gettleman (The New York Times)
MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2008
After 15 years of off-again-on-again civil war, the last of Burundi’s rebel groups has finally come to the negotiating table

Tags: Africa, Burundi, civil war, rebels

By Donald MacGillis (International Herald Tribune)
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2008
The West has a responsibility to ensure that its need for Uganda’s doctors and nurses does not place an unconscionable burden on the Ugandans left behind.

Tags: Africa, migrants, Uganda

By Alan Cowell (The New York Times)
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2008
President Thabo Mbeki must now live with the consequences of what he has called the “quiet diplomacy” that, his critics assert, has merely permitted President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to pursue his economically ruinous regime without restraint.

Tags: Africa, diplomacy, South Africa

By Matthias Basanisi (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2008
There is evidence that the UN covered up evidence of gold smuggling and arms trafficking by its peacekeepers in Congo .

Tags: Africa, arm-trafficking, Congo, gold, UN

By Jeffrey Gettleman (The New York Times)
SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2008
A broad swath of Somalia has been declared a humanitarian emergency, the final stage before a full-blown famine. Relief efforts have been thwarted by civil strife and international politics

Tags: Africa, famine, hunger-belt, Somalia

By Ban Ki Moon (International Herald Tribune)
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2008
If we begin taking steps to deal decisively with the world food crisis, the solution will come
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/01/opinion/edmoon.php

Tags: Africa, food crisis

(The New York Times)
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2008
African nations must put aside their hero worship and find ways to persuade Robert Mugabe to allow a peaceful transfer of power to Morgan Tsvangirai.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/01/opinion/edzimba.php

Tags: Africa, Zimbabwe

By Daniela Kroslak and Andrew Stroehlein (International Herald Tribune)
MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008
Strange how an African country can be moving from prolonged chaos to violent collapse and no one in the world notices until a couple of European boats get seized by armed gunmen(…)
A lack of will, investment and imagination has made Somalia a hopeless [...]

Tags: Africa, piracy, Somalia

By Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008
Many African children may have more at stake in the outcome of the U.S. presidential race than American children.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/06/opinion/edkristof.php

Tags: Africa, children, presidential election, US-american