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the weapons were traditionally produced for hunting and for farmers to protect livestock but criminal gangs and tribal conflicts have revolutionised demand. Alarmist headline notwithstanding locally-manufactured guns are problematic

On attempts to eradicate Guinea worm... down to 25,000 cases a year mostly in Sudan (the wages of war) and Ghana (the traditional neglect of Northern Ghana I suppose). Man, public health is tough and water is not sexy for whatever reason

Fancy that, a country subsidizes its farmers (fertilizer controls), improves food security and now exports. Whither free trade and World Bank prescriptions. I suppose Europe and the US don't provide agricultural subsidies to their farmers, right?

A $2 mosquito net, a 5¢ vitamin, a $10 vaccination. The other ingredient in public policy is paying and training community health volunteers. On the Malawi example... this pretty well follows the ethos of the Bamako initiative

Perhaps the premier Ghanaian economist in academia from what I can tell, albeit working from without... lots of good papers and modeling... need to brush up on the mathematics

On the South African dilemma - how to find ways to keep growth high given that it takes time to invest in education and training of the locals, the so-called "skills deficit". Easiest answer: welcome those Zimbabwean and other Africa immigrants. the polit

"This area is the oldest corner of N'Djamena, you cannot just destroy it because of modernity". The Chadian government plans to demolish the much-loved, 115-year-old district of Gardole in N'Djamena which pre-dates the colonial powers a historical treasur

Je ne suis pas venu, jeunes d'Afrique, pour pleurer avec vous sur les malheurs de l'Afrique. Car l'Afrique n'a pas besoin de mes pleurs. Je ne suis pas venu effacer le passé car le passé ne s'efface pas. Je ne suis pas venu<sep/>

The idea is to disable the disease by combining virtually every known malaria-fighting technique, from the ancient (Chinese herbal medicines) to the old (bed nets) to the ultramodern (multidrug cocktails). a vaccine that would curb the disease for good.

The discovery of 600 million barrels of light oil offshore from Ghana. Kufuor: "Even without oil, we are doing so well, already. Now, with oil as a shot in the arm, we're going to fly," Black Gold arrives. Will oil curse follow?

There was a time when France was not so squeamish about regime change. In fact, France has intervened militarily either to change regimes in sub-Saharan Africa or to restore deposed strongmen no less than 37 times since 1960. In some cases, Foreign Legion