Sociolingo's Africa BlogSociolingo's Africa BlogNews, images and comments about Africa. I live in Mali in West Africa and I collect news and information about African countries. I hope you find something here that interests you. I usually include short snippets from websites and newsletters in ord Articles
Madagascar: Governance and institutional development project
2008-06-04 12:45:00 The World Bank Group?s Board approved the second Governance and Institutional Development Project (PGDI ? II) in Madagascar : This US$40 million financing will enhance reforms initiated under the PGDI - 1 http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/ COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:21789 073~menuPK:258658~pagePK:2865106~piPK:286 5128~theSitePK:258644,00.html
Ghana: 2008 budget receives US$145 million support from the World Bank
2008-06-04 12:42:00 Ghana?s 2008 budget receives US$145 million support from the World Bank: Poverty Reduction, Food and Agriculture, Energy, Decentralization,Natural Resource and Environmental Governance (including EITI++),and Donor Harmonization to get more boost. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/ COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:21789 063~menuPK:258658~pagePK:2865106~piPK:286 5128~theSitePK:258644,00.html More About: World Bank , Ghana , Support , The World
Academic paper: A multilevel analysis of innovation in developing countries
2008-06-04 12:38:00 SUPPLEMENT AFRIQUE DE LA LISTE DE DIFFUSION DE L’UNIVERSITE PARIS DIDEROT - PARIS 7 A multilevel analysis of innovation in developing countries by M. Srholec [abstract] Innovation is a multilevel phenomenon. Not only characteristics of firms but also environment within which firms operate matter. Although this has been for long recognized in the literature, a quantitative test that explicitly concerns the hypothesis that ... More About: Academic , Analysis , Countries , Paper
Kenyan scientist bags Africa Prize at TICAD4 summit in Yokohama
2008-06-04 12:34:00 Source: APA Kenya n scientist bags Africa Prize at TICAD4 summit in Yokohama (2008-05-28 20:16:31) APA ? Yokohama (Japan) - Kenyan health specialist Miriam Were and British scientist Brian Greenwood, on Wednesday received the Hideo Noguchi Africa Prize in Yokohama on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 4). ... More About: Scientist , Bags , Summit
Africa Japan summit links
2008-06-04 12:31:00 Lots of info about Africa - Japan TICAD IV Yokohama 2008. Here are the links from the African Press Agency: Japan, Liberia relations clocking half a century (A Feature) (2008-05-31 00:10:00) The Yokohama Declaration ? Towards a vibrant Africa (2008-05-30 09:05:1 TICAD closes with a pledge to help Africa in current universal crisis ... More About: Links , Summit
African technology: Tanzania set to start tracking cattle by computer
2008-06-04 11:24:00 Source: APA Tanzania set to start tracking cattle by computer APA-Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Tanzania will implement computerised registration and monitoring of livestock and coding of by-products once the Traceability Act is enforced by Parliament, APA learnt here Wednesday. The new Act will help small and medium enterprises that have invested extensively in livestock by-products to gain access ... More About: Technology , Computer , Start , Tracking
Austrian Hostages in Mali 04-06-08
2008-06-04 10:57:00 Posted by sociolingo on June 4, 2008 Contributed by Christiane Lauschitzsky Here?s the latest update on the Austrian hostages: Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassik went for a secret visit to Mali and Algeria to further negotiations on behalf of the two Austrian hostages being held. She supposedly met with the Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré and with other ... More About: Hostages
Book review: Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa
2008-06-04 10:49:00 x-posted from H-AfrArts list H-NET BOOK REVIEW (September, 2006) Mai Palmberg and Annemette Kirkegaard, eds. ?Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa ?. Uppsala: Nordic African Institute, 2002. 182 pp. Photographs, maps, notes, references, notes on contributors. $27.90 (paper), ISBN 978-91-7106-496-7. Review ed for H-AfrArts by Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum, School of Music, Illinois State University Forging Identities in Contemporary African Music ?Playing with Identities in Contemporary ... More About: Book Review , Book
High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Cha
2008-06-04 10:41:00 High-Level Conference on World Food Security : the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy 3-5 June 2008 | Rome, Italy The High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy will take place from 3-5 June at the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) headquarters in Rome, Italy. The Conference will comprise two segments, ... More About: High
Sustainable Development Report on Africa (SDRA)
2008-06-03 12:48:00 Sustainable Development Report on Africa (SDRA) The Economic Commission for Africa has released the second edition of its flagship publication, the Sustainable Development Report on Africa (SDRA). This edition of SDRA is devoted to a five-year review of the implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Outcomes in Africa (WSSD+5). Several African countries have made progress in economic governance, ... More About: Sustainable
CAMEROON: Fishermen buying fish
2008-06-03 11:52:00 Source: IRIN NEWS CAMEROON: Fish ermen buying fish LIMBE, 2 June 2008 (IRIN) - Cameroon got its name from the Portuguese who, upon arriving on the coast in the 1400s, found seafood in such abundance they decided to call the main estuary Rio dos Camarões, or River of Prawns. Yet today the people of Cameroon import most ... More About: Buying
SAHEL: Sahel climate change diary - Day 1 Burkina Faso
2008-06-03 11:34:00 Source: IRIN NEWS SAHEL: Sahel climate change diary - Day 1 OUAGADOUGOU, 2 June 2008 (IRIN) - There’s a very academic discussion happening in Europe right now still asking “is the climate already changing” and “is climate change noticeable today”. Here in Burkina Faso that debate is not happening, because the effects already speak for themselves. Although today ... More About: Diary , Climate Change , Climate , Change
African food crisis: Links updated regularly
2008-06-03 11:29:00 The number of posts on the current food crisis is becoming overwhelming. So I have decided to make a ‘running’ post where these items are collected instead of featuring each one. I hope this is useful to you. I’ll update it as often as items come in, so please bookmark this post. Global map of hunger http://maps.maplecroft.com/loadmap?templa te=map&issueID=8 ZIMBABWE: ... More About: Food , Links , Crisis , African
African food crisis: Links updated regularly
2008-06-02 20:29:00 The number of posts on the current food crisis is becoming overwhelming. So I have decided to make a ‘running’ post where these items are collected instead of featuring each one. I hope this is useful to you. I’ll update it as often as items come in, so please bookmark this post. Global map of hunger http://maps.maplecroft.com/loadmap?templa te=map&issueID=8 INTERVIEW-Zimbabwe ... More About: Food , Links , Crisis , African
Academic paper: The economic impact of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, by T. Az
2008-06-02 20:21:00 The economic impact of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa , by T. Azomahou [abstract] In this paper, a simple general equilibrium model à la Solow is developed to capture the impact of AIDS on economic growth. To this end, a benchmark model due to Cuddington and Hancock (1994) is extended in various directions. In particular, the sharply declining life expectancy patterns are clearly ... More About: Academic , Sub-Saharan Africa , Paper , Economic
IMF Executive Board Approves US$45.7 Million PRGF Arrangement for Mali with
2008-06-02 17:25:00 Press Release: IMF Executive Board Approves US$45.7 Million PRGF Arrangement for Mali with Front-Loaded Disbursement to Address Higher Food and Fuel Prices http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/200 8/pr08126.htm More About: African economy
IMF Mozambique: Second Review Under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI)
2008-06-02 17:23:00 Press Release: IMF Completes Second Review Under the Policy Support Instrument (PSI) for Mozambique http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/200 8/pr08123.htm
Burkina Faso: 2 IMF papers 06/2008
2008-06-02 17:21:00 Country Report No. 08/168: Burkina Faso : 2007 Article IV Consultation, First Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, Request for Access Augmentation, Requests for Waivers of Nonobservance of Performance Criteria, and Request for Modification of Performance Criteria - Staff Report; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by ... More About: African economy , Papers , 2008
IMF Niger: 2 reports 06/2008
2008-06-02 17:19:00 Country Report No. 08/167: Niger : Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/long res.cfm?sk=21988.0 Press Release: IMF Executive Board Completes Sixth and Final Review Under the PRGF Arrangement with Niger and Approves New US$37.5 Million Successor PRGF Arrangement http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/200 8/pr08127.htm More About: African economy , 2008
SAHEL: Background on the Sahel, West Africa?s poorest region
2008-06-02 17:04:00 Source: IRIN NEWS SAHEL: Background er on the Sahel , West Africa ’s poorest region OUAGADOUGOU, 2 June 2008 (IRIN) - Underdevelopment and humanitarian crises in the Sahel region of West Africa will be under the spotlight this week as Jan Egeland, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Conflict, travels to Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to draw attention to ...
SAHEL: Region is ?ground zero? for climate change - Egeland
2008-06-02 16:51:00 Source: IRIN NEWS SAHEL: Region is “ground zero” for climate change - Egeland OUAGADOUGOU , 2 June 2008 (IRIN) - The Sahel region of West Africa is “ground zero” for vulnerable communities struggling to adapt to climate change, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on conflict, Jan Egeland, said on 2 June in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, ... More About: Climate Change , Climate , Change , Ground
African food crisis: Food,fuel shock can ?wreck the exchequer? in Africa
2008-06-02 12:31:00 Source: AlertNet Africa ’s cocoa makes the world’s chocolate, its fish, fruit and vegetables reach tables around the globe and its oil powers vehicles and factories from China to the United States. Yet far from benefiting from soaring commodity prices, African states are being squeezed as hard as any by the costs of fuel and food imports. ... More About: Food , Shock , Fuel , African economy
Africalia Funding for cultural projects in Africa
2008-06-01 11:15:00 Comments are now closed for this post. Please read the article carefully and apply to the organisers as detailed below, NOT to Sociolingo. Africa lia Funding Region Western Europe Deadline Date 120 days (4 months) before starting the project Africalia, an initiative of the Belgian Development Co-operation, is calling for proposals. Launched in 2000, Africalia aims to promote sustainable human development ... More About: Projects , Cultural
African book: Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories : Literary and Aesthetic M
2008-05-31 11:09:00 x-posted from H-West-Africa list I would like to call your attention to this new book edited by Paul Lovejoy, Naana Opoku-Agyemang and David V. Trotman, Africa and Trans -Atlantic Memories : Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History, Africa World Press, 2008, 468 pages. * * * Table of Contents INTRODUCTION SECTION I: THE AFRICAN VOICE IN DIASPORA Chapter 1 - Narratives of Trans-Atlantic ... More About: Book
Conference: 18-19 Sept 2008 ? ?African Children in Focus: A Paradigm Shift
2008-05-31 11:05:00 Comments are closed for this post. Please apply directly to the advertisers. 18-19 Sept 2008 ? ‘African Children in Focus : A Paradigm Shift in Methodology and Theory? Interdisciplinary Conference ’, Leiden, Netherlands. “From the late 1990?s onwards, the research of children and childhoods has gradually become a topic of study in the social sciences. Children have increasingly come into the limelight as ...
Academic paper DRC: The timber trade and poverty alleviation - Upper Great
2008-05-31 10:59:00 Source: ELDIS The timber trade and poverty alleviation - Upper Great Lakes region Produced by: Department for International Development, UK (2007) This report analyses how trade in timber produced in the eastern DRC and Southern Sudan can contribute to stability and economic development in the region. Presenting an overview of trade volumes and routes, the paper finds that ... More About: Academic , Poverty , Trade , Democratic Republic of Congo
Academic paper: Economic Partnership Agreements -which way for Malawi?
2008-05-31 10:56:00 Source: ELDIS EPAs: which way for Malawi ? Produced by: Malawi Economic Justice Network (2007) This paper reports on a stakeholder meeting that took place on the 4th December 2007 to discuss the issue of making trade work for poor people in Malawi. It is particularly concerned with the signing of an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and whether this ... More About: Academic , Paper , African economy
Academic paper: Tackling Malawi?s human resources crisis
2008-05-31 10:52:00 Source: ID21 Tackling Malawi ’s human resources crisis The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will only be possible if we can successfully strengthen the capacity of health systems in middle and low-income countries. http://www.id21.org/insights/insights-h12 /art06.html More About: Resources , Academic , Human Resources , Human
Acaemic paper: Efficiency and equity through a sector-wide approach in Ugan
2008-05-31 10:50:00 Source: ID21 Efficiency and equity through a sector-wide approach in Uganda Financing Uganda’s health care services used to be based on a minimum package which cost more than the financial resources available. Donor aid contributed between 40 to 50 percent of these costs. Financial allocations were also biased towards national level hospitals and wages. http://www.id21.org/insights/insights-h12 /art05.html ... More About: Wide , Paper , Equity
Acaemic paper: Better access to effective antimalarials, sub-Saharan Africa
More articles from this author:2008-05-31 10:48:00 Source: ID21 Better access to effective antimalarials Malaria is one of the main reasons why people use health services in sub-Saharan Africa , placing a considerable burden on primary health care. The Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm) is a supply-side intervention designed to reduce malaria mortality by improving the availability and affordability of effective treatment. It also ... More About: Sub-Saharan Africa , Access , Paper , Effective 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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