NYFA 2013 Speakers
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Country Coordinating Mechanisms and Women

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South African Swayed by Windpower

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Investing in Africa: Mind the bumps and the rewards will come

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Culture is the New Resistance

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Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths

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Skills shortage could hamper Africa growth surge

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Is Tanzania’s economic growth an urban phenomenon?

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Who Owns the Land? Cameroon's Large-Scale Land-Grabs

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Innovation Leadership Training Program launching in Zambia

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Open Borders top EALA talks

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Open Borders top EALA talks

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Solar Powered Internet School Opens World of Possibilities in Uganda

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Women key to Africa’s development

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Ethiopian capital to burn waste, hopes for energy bonanza

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African Development Bank aims to boost investment to EAC

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Africans enrolled in Chinese Universities up 30 percent in 2012.

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African Health Ministers commit to ramped up TB/HIV treatment

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African Health Ministers commit to ramped up TB/HIV treatment

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12 million Africans entering the job Market every year.

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Emphasis on new Infrastructure driving a maintenance deficit.

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Rwanda’s ICT ambition bearing fruit

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Namibia examines BRICS

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Solar Powered Internet School Opens a World of Possibilities in Uganda

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By 2050, one in three children will be born in Sub-Saharan Africa

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New York African Film Festival Returns To FSLC April 3-9 To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary

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First women-initiated bank launched in Ethiopia

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Lagos creating energy from waste

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Citi Bank to start operations in Ghana

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Nigeria set to overtake SA as Africa's biggest economy

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Food and drug regulators to cut counterfeits

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Gulf carriers aim for bigger slice of Africa market

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Can floating architecture save this Nigerian slum?

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Rwanda to host Agribusiness Forum.

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South Africa's Naspers in $570 million Russia internet deal

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Burundi supports border communities.

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Tanzanias financial sector is stable.

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Gambia gets its first Journalism School

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How African Feminism Changed the World.

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Rwanda gets U.S. $60 Million for Sustainable Energy

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Japan Boosts Private Sector Investment

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27 Million Women to Access Reversible Contraceptive.

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o Ghanian Entrepreneur Assembles trucks aimed at Industrial Production

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PPPs to Develop Africa’s Infrastructure?

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South Africa, Belarus discuss cooperation in Agriculture

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Google in Africa

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Zimbabwe looks to boost FDI

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Nigeria and Brazil Strengthen Economic Ties

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Ugandan Vocational Training School gets US $82Million

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FAO Report: Women in Agriculture

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African Union: Empowering Women in Agriculture

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Brazil tips Dar es Salaam on gas economy

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Potential in Africa’s renewable energy

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Ethiopia: Heineken to build the country's largest brewery in Ethiopia

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African hotel wins worlds best hotel for second year in a row by Travel + Leisure.

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Rwandan students to learn Chinese language

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New malaria drugs give hope to eradication

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In Rwanda 3000 teachers to enter the labor market

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Biogas looks to women to expand sector.

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Rwanda gets US $60m to develop energy sector

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Africa’s first Pan-African airline hits 75,000 passengers.

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Ambitious infrastructure project funded through contractor financing

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Zimbabwe’s tobacco crop down 3 million in 2012.

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U.A.E. and Zimbabwe discuss multi-billion-dollar cooperation

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S.A. task force to monitor agriculture emissions

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Nokia's Life launched in Kenya, hits 95 million global users

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Africa is more stable than you've been led to think.

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Uganda, Kenya coffees top in Africa

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Uganda student wins Africa IT award

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Are African women on the rise?

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Mozambique receives U.S.$9.3 Million for girls education.

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Malawi President Joyce Banda featured in CFR remarkable women of 2012.

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New oil deposits in Kenya may be commercially viable

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South Sudan and Sudan come to agreement to resume oil exports.

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New laws to stabilize oil market in Ghana.

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Expert engaged to set up futures exchange in Nairobi

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Analysis of micro enterprise growth in Africa and transitions to SME’s.

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Kenya demarcating 9 blocks of territory for auction of license to oil and gas exploration.

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Could the next pope come from Africa?

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Africa forecast to be a $45 billion pharma market by 2020

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Scientist in Benin unveil enhanced malaria test

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Zimbabwe to refine platinum locally.

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Renovated rail line connecting Nigeria’s two largest cities re-launched

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Nigeria top of the pack for internet speed in West Africa.

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PPP’s for infrastructure development.

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Kenya launches ICT master plan, aims to connect all

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MTN extends their fiber network in Uganda

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Cote d’Ivoire Cocoa Farmers Certified and Satisfied

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The effects of reducing risk for farmers in Africa – potentials for growing participants in the commercial sector.

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Uganda launches space program.

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Windows run Huawei phone launched exclusively for African market

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SME’s advised to trade internationally.

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5.4% non-oil growth in sub-Saharan Africa since 2008.

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Wi-Fi Giving Education a Boost

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Culture is the New Resistance

• Published on 22 Apr. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural TrendsEla, a young Tunisian woman whose face is barely visible behind her niqab, says she has spent five months protesting a university ban against the religious garment in the classroom “to no avail”. On the other side of the capital Tunis, a group of students decked out in djellabas and keffiyehs (traditional Tunisian costumes) with the Tunisian flag wrapped around their shoulders, perform the Harlem Shake: a dance form that originated in the United States in the early 1980s but has recently gone viral online as a popular meme.The two scenes represent the latest battle in Tunisia, between(...)
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Africans enrolled in Chinese Universities up 30 percent in 2012.

• Published on 09 Apr. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural TrendsWe are in Africa, but most of us understand China through the Western media. I wanted togo by myself to explore the country on my own, not through a Western perspective," saidHicham Erfiki, a second year PhD student from Morocco at Peking University.As a member of the PKU African student association, Erfiki helped organize many&(...)
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By 2050, one in three children will be born in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Published on 20 Mar. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural Trends In 1980, 41 percent of the world’s population was children under age 18. By 2050, children will make up just 25 percent of the global population, according to a recent report by Unicef (PDF), which uses data from the United Nations Population Division. What’s worth noting, though, is not simply that the globe is graying—and whether that’s a terrible orperhaps beneficial is actively debated—but that different countries and regions will have radically different aging structures. Read more... 

New York African Film Festival Returns To FSLC April 3-9 To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary

• Published on 20 Mar. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural TrendsThe Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) have teamed up once again for the 20th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) April 3–9, presented under the banner theme LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: 20 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL.  This year’s lineup will pay homage to master Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène and the first generation of African filmmakers, while passing the baton to a new generation of African visual storytellers, who continue to transform our understanding of, and vision for, the Continent. The NYAFF will also run t(...)
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Rwandan students to learn Chinese language

• Published on 07 Mar. 2013 • Category : Socio-Cultural Trends It’s already lucky to be the only EAC country using two international languages, English and French but Rwanda is being encouraged to adopt a third global language, Chinese. Last week, Shu Zhan, the Ambassador of the people’s republic of China to Rwanda, officially launched the teaching of the Chinese language at a community secondary school located in Gatsibo district, in Rwanda’s Eastern Province.During his speech, the diplomat told hundreds of secondary school students to put efforts in learning the language as it would open up new opportunities for them including increasing thei(...)
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