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Jul 13, 20222 min read
Towards sustainable development in Africa
As we know, there is historically a direct correlation between the level of human development and the consumption of fossil energy (Edgar...
Apr 24, 20222 min read
Almost 10 years of conflict in Mali
We started our project in Mali 10 2014. Since 2012 however, the country has been facing an armed conflict that has now spread over...
Aug 13, 20212 min read
The pareto principle
While the IPCC gives us its latest and maddening conclusions, a flock of well-meaning people draped in their virtue still want to blame...
Mar 2, 20213 min read
But what does Lakshmi do?
In the pantheon of Hindu gods, Lakshmi, wife of Vishnu, is the goddess of wealth, prosperity, riches and abundance, and as such is...
Jan 31, 20212 min read
The great green wall, the great mirage
The sea serpent reappeared. At the recent One Planet Summit, the Great Green Wall in Africa project came back to the surface. As a...
Dec 10, 20202 min read
Hypocrisy at the top
We mentioned in our last article that Pakistan followed India, where we support 2 projects, in terms of ranking of the most polluted...
Nov 17, 20201 min read
If only...
Should we recall the devastating impact of the health crisis we are going through? His deaths, the staggering cost to the economy...
Oct 14, 20202 min read
Africa as a global donor
An ubiquitous situation, revealed in the latest UNCTAD report. Indeed, according to the organization, the escape of capital of all kinds...
Nov 27, 20192 min read
Cynism of China
We can only moderately be satisfied with China's efforts to contain its GHG emissions. It could be among the G20 members though to meet...
Sep 15, 20192 min read
Resource Richness / Population Poverty
It is generally admitted that resource-rich economies are the victims of the "curse of natural resources” and experiencing poor economic...
Aug 11, 20191 min read
2018 was the year of the fight against corruption in Africa
This had been announced in January 2018 by Moussa Faki Mahamat, president of the African Union Commission at the end of a session held in...
Jul 23, 20192 min read
Tax evasion in Africa and development aid
A newly issued report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Mauritius Leaks shows how tax evasion affects the...
Jun 8, 20192 min read
The terrifying impact of climate change in north India
The freshly elected nationalist government of India has innovated with the creation of the “Ministry of Water”. This is probably one of...
May 8, 20192 min read
Youth unemployment in Africa
It is a real time bomb the bursting of which seems imminent, and one may fear that the shock wave could exceed the continent. The African...
Oct 30, 20181 min read
2018 Nobel Peace Prize
We have already written about the women's situation in Kivu (DR of Congo) where we recently initiated a project. At the global level,...
Oct 30, 20181 min read
Some of the reasons motivating giving
The Americans tend to give more than Europeans (2.1% of GDP versus less than 1% for the EU). A (not so recent) article in Forbes gives...
Oct 30, 20181 min read
An amazing destiny : Zegeye Asfaw Abdi
We have recently met in Addis Ababa the president of Hundee: one of the local NGO with which we cooperate. Mr. Abdi is a trained lawyer...
Oct 30, 20181 min read
Why the wealth of Africa doesn’t make Africans wealthy?
We reported in a recent post on the estimated wealth of some Africa leaders. Beyond just the ruling presidents, a whole cast of...
Oct 30, 20182 min read
African debt crisis
We are in this article making an attempt to correlate some key figures relating to a selection of African countries, available from...
Oct 30, 20183 min read
The wealth of African leaders
According to independent studies (see i.a. here), the top 10 wealthiest African presidents ranked as follows until recently. Some of them...
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