TweetInternational development banks, UN agencies, and intergovernmental organizations have pledged to support the sustainable development of tourism in a network of parks spanning ten countries in West Africa. Commitments to the West Africa Parks Project came out of a UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Donor’s Conference held in Dakar, Senegal (May 27-28, 2011), chaired by [...]

Sir Bob Geldof’s latest incarnation says something about Africa’s changing place in the world. Not for the first time, the Irish rock star turned campaigner for aid and debt relief in Africa has been seeking to raise as much as $1bn. This time, however, he hopes to champion investment in a continent that he had tended to portray as a basket case in perennially urgent need of alms.

With the global competitive landscape changing dramatically, Africa is now emerging as a leading employment centre location. Many firms operating across Africa are recruiting aggressively and the African job market in 2011 is looking robust with a significant increase in the number of jobs compared with the same time last year.

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been increasing expenditure on education by 6% every year over the past decade, but many are still lagging in efforts to provide children with quality primary education, the United Nations agency tasked with promoting universal education says in a report unveiled yesterday.