“I want to hold the G8 countries to their promise. When you sign a contract, you absolutely must stick to it.” - Angelique Kidjo.
The Group of Eight (G8) aid to Africa will fall $40 billion short of the Gleneagles pledge under current plans, according to a report last month by an Africa Progress Panel, which [...]

Foliofn Investments, an American firm has just introduced the first-ever screening tool to let investors build portfolios free of companies that support and profit from the genocide in Sudan.
Foliofn Investments launched in May of this year help customers automatically screen out companies on the Genocide Intervention Network’s “highest offenders” list of firms that operate [...]

Imagine working with one of the several NGOs in Africa.
If what you see is an existence devoid of the little goodies of life, but full of anguish, dangerous encounters with wild animals and bandits, and popping dozens of preventive pills weekly.
Then you are way off mark! Expats can afford to eat sushis cooked [...]

June promises to be a good month for Africa, business wise.
The 8th Leon H. Sullivan Summit comes to Tanzania, Arusha (June 2 - 6, 2008). The Leon H. Sullivan Summit is named after the first African-American to sit on the board of a Fortune 500 company - together the world’s political and business leaders, [...]

International volunteer Kathryn Cunningham recruited her local community in Delaware, USA, to help power a local hospital in The Gambia using solar panels. Kathryn: “We started this project in October 2006 - our goal was to raise 300,000 for this project. We have raised 240,000 dollars so far..we will get there!”

With 110,000 paid employees and a $482 million annual budget, BRAC is the largest antipoverty group in the world. Using an incentive-based entrepreneurship program aimed at the poor, the NGO has helped pull Bangladesh out of the ashes. Now big nonprofits are throwing money at BRAC and pushing it in Africa’s direction, but can it do same in Africa?

Linking physicians to a single network has profound implications for a country’s health care system. With that in mind, Brian Levine, a fourth year medical student at the New York University school of medicine, decided to set up an online social networking site so doctors all over Ghana could collaborate with each other.