Category: Africa
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Monday, July 11, 2011
South Africa’s Cancer Of Corruption And ‘Culture Of Concealment’ / Politics / Africa
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA: Twenty one years after Nelson Mandela walked free, corruption has become the issue du jour in South Africa.
Even president Jacob Zuma who narrowly slithered out of a corruption trial before his election is blasting corruption in the ranks of the African National Congress which came to power as the morally superior alternative to an apartheid regime that shamelessly used the wealth it controlled to benefit Afrikaners and deprive the black majority of services.
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
Africa Riding the Red Dragon / Economics / Africa
"When I entered the business world, three-fourths of the world was closed - China, Russia, Vietnam, India, most of Africa... In 2010, the entire world is wide open, the developing world is growing twice as fast as the developed world and there's still arguably several billion people out there that will modernize and progress." - Caterpillar's CEO Doug Oberhelman
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Saturday, May 07, 2011
Africa Investor Profit Opportunities / Economics / Africa
Little was known about Africa's interior so early map makers would often leave this region blank. Today's investors may be the equivalent of yesterdays mapmakers.
Africa is a continent of opportunity.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
Africa Is The Final Frontier for Consumer Goods Companies / Companies / Africa
Tony D’Altorio writes: Investors are finally beginning to notice Africa…
•They like its richness in much-needed commodities.
•They appreciate its improving currency, political and economic stability.
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
U.S. Military Intervention in Africa, The New Blueprint for Global Domination / Politics / Africa
Paul C. Wright writes: The United States’ intervention in Africa is driven by America’s desire to secure valuable natural resources and political influence that will ensure the longevity of America’s capitalist system, military industrial complex, and global economic superiority – achieved through the financial and physical control of raw material exports. While America’s prosperity may be waning due to a number of current factors, policy makers are bent on trying to preserve America’s global domination and will pursue policy objectives regardless of the downturn in the economy at large.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
World Spotlight on South Africa / Economics / Africa
South Africa takes to the world stage today as it hosts the first World Cup to be played on the African continent. For the next 30 days, the eyes of the globe will be watching Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Maicon and Messi battle it out for world soccer supremacy.
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Thursday, May 06, 2010
Economic and Social Crisis in Nigeria / Politics / Africa
Kola Ibrahim writes: As workers in Nigeria celebrate this year’s Workers’ Day, the political challenges before the working and poor people is more vital today more than ever before. That the capitalist political class has severally and collectively plunder the huge resources of the nation, while the poor people go hungry, is no more news. For the past almost eleven years of civil rule, workers have fought tooth and nail to gain better living but every demand of workers in this regard is met with stiff opposition from the capitalist ruling class at all levels.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Acting Nigerian President Moves Quickly, Decisively to Get Country Back on Track / Politics / Africa
Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has moved decisively and rapidly to unify the Government under him, dismissing — on March 17, 2010 — the entire Cabinet which had been appointed by the now-incapacitated Pres. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. This followed his move, the week before, to appoint Lt.-Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau as the new National Security Advisor, a post which oversees all the intelligence and security services as well as the Armed Forces.Read full article... Read full article...