By Dennis Kabatto – Hoping to gain international support in the fight to stop the illicit financial outflows from Africa, a High-level panel chaired by former South Africa’s president Thabo Mbeki on Thursday called for cooperative global efforts to tackle the debacle. The Panel mandated to further explore and gain a better understanding of the nature of illicit financial flows out of Africa and assessing its impact on continental development, estimates about $50 billion has been lost to these illicit financial outflows each year since the beginning of the millennium. “This far outweighs the amount of official development assistance... Continue Reading
….Delivery ceremony of the first maps at a scale of 1:200 000 – Started in February 2011, the project consists of updating the country’s map coverage at a scale of 1: 200 000 in order to complete a national database and topographic maps covering the entire country. A ceremony of delivery of the first new maps was organized in Ouagadougou on January, 30th. The official ceremony of delivery of the 13 first new maps completed in the framework of the upgrading of Burkina’s general map, took place in Ouagadougou January 30th on behalf of the President of the National assembly... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – Few months back at the close of 2013 up to early January this year, Liberia’s largest municipality Paynesville, situated in Montserrado County, one of the fifteen sub-political divisions of the country, was on the daily basis sinking deeply into dirt as the stockpiles of huge garbage were seen in every corner of the City, especially in the Commercial District of Red Light. As the day passes by, there were all sorts of names given to Paynesville by the residents themselves, petty traders and other individuals who passed through the City, mainly in the Commercial... Continue Reading
Dennis Kabbatto interviews Fuambai Sia Ahmadu, PhD. – This is the anniversary of our first interview last year on Feb 6th, International Zero-Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Day. The interview in Newstime Africa online publication, received widespread attention almost overnight. Clearly, some people are listening. What have you been doing since? Dennis, it is good that people are listening. Especially on a day like today when it appears we have capitulated to the definition of African women’s bodies as “mutilated”. As descendants of Africans with our history of enslavement, imperialism and colonialism, we have to be very careful when we... Continue Reading
By Nawa Mutumweno – The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) board has approved a five-year strategic plan (2013 – 18), with a budget outlay of $211 million to meet the company’s recapitalisation and working capital. And the firm projects to grow its annual revenue to $122 million in 2018 from $48 million in 2013 with the increase in traffic volumes. According to TAZARA head of public relations Conrad Simuchile, from the $211 million budget outlay, about $177 million will be used to enhance capacity in critical areas of operations. ‘’As directed by the shareholding governments (Tanzania and Zambia), the strategic plan... Continue Reading
