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…t before a fight. Masiyiwa waged a five-year legal battle with the government for a licence to deliver telephone services. The company now operates in 17 countries including Botswana, Lesotho, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and New Zealand. In 2000, while the UN filed a civil suit...

… Gai Anew growth point for world economy n Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative does not get the attention it deserves. However, the history of the ancient Silk Road has fed our imagination for centuries. Today, China speaks for reality while Europe is limiting itself to cur...

…anzee has ever ventured across national borders within the continent to explore new opportunities or develop new cultures. Not a single bonobo or chimpanzee has even moved out of the forests and on to the beaches or deserts or alpine environments of Africa. Not one. When we took...

…ir funding to deal with the migrant influx, there is a funding shortfall leading to Female Condom stock outs in countries. The Female Health Company is looking for donors who are willing to donate money to UNFPA, and earmark that money for purchase of the FC2 female condom only,...

Speaker at Africa Energy Forum 2011 in Paris, France, on “Natural Gas Potential of Africa,” June 13-15, 2011 Speaker at Platts 1‘' Annual Biofuels Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on “Advances in Biofuel Feedstocks for African Development,” June 28-29, 2012 Speaker at...

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Were we stupid? Obviously. Were we normal? Unfortunately, yes. A few months ago, I chatted with another American HIV educator about the situation here in Africa. "They know to use condoms," she complained, "and they have the condoms! I just don't get it!" "I agree that it's inco...

…ecently married four women at once. King Mswati of Swaziland has thirteen wives, and his father King Sobhuza had 70. (Yes. Seventy.) Here in southern Africa, even those rich men who don't take multiple wives almost always support mistresses. Naturally, local women don't get multi...

…heer awfulness since arriving last year. What catches my attention these days is unfamiliar cultural angles and arguments. While reading the local paper, I recently came upon yet another gay-shaming article -- but instead of railing about God's will, the article talked about cul...

…sons, and whether South Africa might be willing to release Mandela as part of a prisoner exchange among several countries. In the end, Sharansky was exchanged for the East German man (who was represented by other lawyers), but we learned from the African National Congress lawyer...

…allholder farmers and casual workers, to access credit. “In Africa 70 percent of people are informally employed,” he says. “The big frontier for us is to create platforms where those people can access credit.” There is little risk that they will get into unmanageable debt because...

…1981. Anyone whose name appears on the list is prohibited from performing at any function sponsored by the United Nations. Other organizations also use the U.N. blacklist to screen politically unacceptable artists. The introduction to the U.N. blacklist boasts that “a number of...

…enetic testing company, and Oncology.com, the largest online cancer resource and virtual community and Applied Proteomics. He is a Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California. He graduated cum laude in molecular biology from Princeton University...

… the relevant documents and contributed to the organization of the book and the drafting of the introduction and comments. Fabrice Aidan, a French diplomat, who served for ten years as my special assistant and political adviser in my different United Nations capacities played an...