Botswana accepts San as indigenous to the Okavango Delta

Botswana accepts San as indigenous to the Okavango Delta

UNESCO gave its approval to inscribe the Okavango Delta

GDP is Macho and Keeps Women Poor

GDP is Macho and Keeps Women Poor

GDP tool and model is macho and masks inequalities – especially gendered inequalities. 

Report on San in Namibia twenty years after independence

San in Namibia

Struggle for rights goes on

Searching for his soul

Telling heroes tales

Restoring the soul of the Khoi-San

Role of Britain and British extractive companies in Africa

Undermining Africa's wealth

Britain's role in extracting continent's resources

The King and the People

At the rate at which Simon Bright is churning out films about African rulers, the filmmaker might soon get the moniker of 'chronicler of power'. After his 2011 documentary, Robert Mugabe…What Happened?, Bright has moved down south to Swaziland to make The King and The People

Nelson Mandela and the Power of a Big Idea
Dumisani Moyo | Jul 18th, 2014

Suddenly it dawned on me that today is Mandela Day, and that all these people had woken up early to pay their homage to the great icon and perhaps fulfill their 67 minutes of community service. 

OSISA, UNDP, ENDA launch Sustainable Land Management Awards

OSISA, UNDP, ENDA launch Sustainable Land Management Awards

OSISA, in partnership with UNDP Equator Initiative, and ENDA held a ground breaking ceremony for the Equator Prize for Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 17
Investigation by civil society into mining investments in the Democratic Republi

Investigation by civil society into mining investments in the Democratic Republic of Congo

How the mining companies Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold and GlencoreXstrata and their audit firms Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte favour tax evasion in DRC
GDP is Macho and Keeps Women Poor

GDP is Macho and Keeps Women Poor

GDP tool and model is macho and masks inequalities – especially gendered inequalities. 

Meet Mozambique's next President

Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of Filipe Nyussi. Most Mozambicans don’t know much about him either. But it’s time to start learning because unless something goes very wrong, Nyussi will be Mozambique’s next
Southern Africa Resource Barometer

Southern Africa Resource Barometer

Globally, the scramble for access to, and development of, natural resources has intensified, partly due to rising demand from emerging economies. This trend has been reflected in commodity prices, which are at

Naming and shaming

When he launched his – sorry Swaziland’s – brand new airport, King Mswati III was determined to make a clear point to all the detractors who had criticised the project over the years. So in front of the assembled

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