The Africa Policy Review news & analysis is essential reading for policy makers and practitioners, development experts and all stakeholders in Africa’s development.
Africa presently reels under serious water challenges. Water-based challenges such as widespread shortage, pollution, degradation, flooding and poor water management in cities and rural centres are problems which dot the African landscape today. This state of affairs is further compounded...
Read More...Corruption is a major unseen contributor to insecurity, instability and conflict. Seifeddine Rezgui, the man who recently killed 37 tourists at the Imperial Marhaba hotel in Tunisia,was able to travel unimpeded into Libya for military training and to gain access...
Read More...An official identity is essential for any person to participate in a modern economy and to access basic rights and services. It empowers people to vote, register assets, own bank accounts and travel. Adequate ID systems also help governments to...
Read More...Africa is highly diverse in its economic, social and political structures. But the continent’s countries share common characteristics and face similar challenges, such as low levels of socio-economic development, high vulnerability to risks and persistent gender inequality. Africa also remains...
Read More...Democracy and governance often thrive if there is respect for the rule of law from the executive trickling down. Any constitutional republic has its soul in the supreme law of the land – the constitution. Respect and upholding the constitution is critical for the healthy functioning of any democratic nation.
Read More...The Constitutive Act establishing the African Union recognises the ever-growing urgency to collectively address the global social, economic and environmental challenges across our national boundaries. Governments cannot single-handedly tackle these global challenges – such as food and nutrition insecurity;, neglected...
Read More...Every public sector policy maker, auditor, court official and criminal investigator knows the importance of being able to find, use and trust official records as evidence of policies, actions, transactions, expenditure, precedents and rights. And yet, little if any attention...
Read More...One of the enduring challenges faced by the African continent in lifting millions out of poverty is this: how do you ensure that Africa’s natural endowments are used to benefit Africans directly? It is the conundrum of all time that...
Read More...What we today call information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been with us even here in Africa since the advent of radios, telephones and telegrams (telex) in colonial times and much later television, computers and smartphones. The incident of the...
Read More...Africa has undoubtedly registered significant achievements since the turn of the century. Notwithstanding this success story, the continent still faces daunting economic, social, political, security and environmental challenges. Research shows that many African countries have for a long time had...
Read More...Introduction: The problem of revenue generation in Africa Raising revenue to fund government salaries, infrastructure projects and public services is one of the core tasks of any state. However, in Africa a shallow and narrow tax base has undermined the...
Read More...At the turn of the millennium, Africa faced an array of challenges, not least the eradication of poverty and the urgent need to foster socio-economic development. The adoption of the Constitutive Act of the African Union in 2000, which established...
Read More...UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
Secretary- General, COMESA
Professor of International Business at Offenburg University
Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania
Director of International Records Management Trust