Are Enviro Drome Greenhouse Systems the Future of Agriculture in Africa?
New agricultural technology in the form of an Enviro Dome Greenhouse System is said to be the future of vegetable production in Ghana and possibly Africa. The farming technique, according to My Joy,...
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Analysis: Nigeria Is Richer, But Still Run By Plunderers
A few days ago the Nigerian economy became the biggest in Africa by nearly doubling overnight. Did Nigerians suddenly find hoards of buried treasure? Were they showered with cash by airplanes passing...
View ArticleRwanda 20 Years After Genocide, Making Strides
Editor’s note: In part one of a series on “Rwanda 20 Years After Genocide,” AFKInsider examines the leadership style of President Paul Kagame. Twenty years ago, a plane was shot down carrying...
View ArticleSouth African Retailer Woolworths Bids To Takeover Australian David Jones
South African retailer Woolworths has made a $2.15 billion takeover bid for listed Australian fashion house David Jones, Herald Sun reported on Wednesday, a move that could make the Woolworth on of the...
View ArticleWal-Mart’s South African Subsidiary Massmart To Open Two Stores In Angola
Written by Tiisetso Motsoeneng and Nomatter Ndebele | From Reuters Massmart (MSMJ.J), South Africa’s No.4 retailer by market value, plans to enter oil-rich Angola with two stores by 2015, a senior...
View ArticleWHO Declares Ebola Outbreak In West Africa A “Challenge”
The World Health Organization (WHO) has described the months long Ebola outbreak in West African countries, that has killed more than 100 people mostly in Guinea and Liberia, as the most challenging...
View ArticleBack To Africa? For Some African-Americans, The Answer Is Yes
Written by Chris Stein | From Codewit World News A steady trickle of African-Americans find a homeland in Africa, whether motivated by love, money, or a desire to connect with ancestral roots. Ghana...
View ArticleFake Seeds Force Ugandan Farmers To Resort To ‘Bronze Age’ Agriculture
Written by Francisco Toro | From The Guardian Of the many factors that keep small-scale Ugandan farmers poor, seed counterfeiting may be the least understood. Passing under the radar of the...
View ArticleAli Shakur of Africrops! on Fair Trade, Ecological Cultivation Principles...
Africrops!, founded in 2012 by Erika Seifts and plant physiologist Dr. Heinrich Heinrichs, is an agriculture-based business which has managed to create a product from the “miracle plant” Moringa...
View Article10 Cupcake Shops Taking Dessert To The Next Level
First there was Magnolia Bakery in New York City that got the whole country hooked on the red velvet cupcakes after being featured in “Sex and the City.” Next came shops such as Crumbs and Sprinkles...
View Article10 Things You Didn’t Know About Palm Springs
Located about 100 miles east of Los Angeles in the Sonoran desert, Palm Springs started becoming a hot spot in the 1950s. The Rat Pack — Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and...
View ArticleChina Plans To Build Modderfontein, A New Joburg ‘City’
China’s Shanghai Zendai Property plans to break ground in 2015 on Modderfontein, an $8-billion, 4,000-acre new development it’s calling “a city” near the Johannesburg commercial hub of Sandton, its...
View ArticleSustainable Ghana Enterprise Clean Team Restores Safety, Dignity in Sanitation
Clean Team, a sustainable enterprise in Ghana is on a mission to restore safety and dignity in the country’s sanitation sector. In some areas,women and girls, especially, struggle with finding a...
View ArticleSudan Expels UN Chief For Interfering
Sudan has expelled the country chief of a United Nations agency and accused her of interfering in domestic affairs, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The incident is the latest involving...
View ArticleRwanda 20 Years After Genocide; Democracy Hard To Come By
This week marks the 20th anniversary of one of mankind’s darkest moments. 20 years ago Sunday, 100 days of horrific slaughter began in the East African country of Rwanda. Over the three months an...
View ArticleU.S. Media Renews Interest In African Affairs
From DW via AllAfrica U.S. media are increasingly reporting on and debating their country’s presence in Africa. How strong should it be? Is its purpose to bring stability to crisis regions or rather to...
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FOREX Africa: In Contest Between Rand And Naira, Bet On Naira
As a frontier market, the countries of Africa represent both tremendous opportunities and tremendous risks. On the risk side of the ledger are all the usual complications of international trade and...
View Article10 Things You Didn’t Know About Reeva Steenkamp
By now most of the world knows the names Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp, but what do you really know about the South African model whose life ended on Valentine’s Day 2013 when her Olympic “Blade...
View Article20 Years After Apartheid, South African Firms Still Racially Skewed
Just one fifth of top-level executive jobs in South Africa are held by blacks, according to a report published Wednesday by the country’s statistics office. “The majority of workplaces are still ‘lilly...
View ArticleTunisia to Receive $1.2 Billion World Bank Financial Package
From All Africa World Bank (WB) Group President Jim Yong Kim announced, Tuesday, that the organisation plans US $1.2 Billion financial package this year for Tunisia. The World Bank specified in a...
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