s much vaunted economic growth is failing to trickle down to their daily lives, according to the biggest survey of its kind. "After a decade of growth in Africa, little change in poverty at the grassroots," is the title of a report by the Afrobarometer research project , which questioned 51,605 respondents in 34 countries from October 2011 to June this year. Roughly one in five Africans told researchers...
s important to integrate climate change adaptation within agriculture and food security programming . Some international donors agree. Feed the Future , the US government initiative on food security and agriculture, for example, has prioritised climate change adaptation (pdf) as a cross-cutting issue throughout its programmes. Climate change also features prominently in Feed the Future's research agenda...
s former president deposited more than £127m at a bank in Monaco while his father was in office, it has emerged. Authorities in Monaco said Karim Wade placed the money in accounts at the Julius Baer bank between 2002 and 2013. They are co-operating with Senegalese officials who are prosecuting Wade on charges of illicit enrichment following a months-long investigation into how he amassed a fortune...
For several months, photographer Andrew Esiebo studied the aesthetics of barbershops in west Africa. It's not all about the hair, he says. ...
s style, she announced the appointment herself . A new prime minister forms a new cabinet. It was thought that Touré would have the cabinet by the end of the week. She had it by Monday evening . That's how Mimi Touré, as she is called, works. Touré is known as the Iron Lady . Every woman who rises to a certain level of government becomes an Iron Lady in the press. The men are, well, just guys. Whichever...
s family is not their village. The family includes one's entire social network: their relatives in many surrounding villages, in all of the places they marry, even in far off countries like France and the United States ... If you truly want to bring about widespread change ... they must all be involved," says Demba Diawara , Senegalese village chief and imam. He describes how social change can occur...
s arrest and forthcoming trial in Senegal offers some hope to those who suffered under his regime "I would just like to look Hissène Habré in the eye and ask him why?" says Clement Abaifouta, who spent four years in jail after he was arrested in 1985 during the former Chadian president's "reign of terror". Abaifouta still does not understand what he did to justify the incarceration. "I was a 25-year-old...
s support for dictator accused of killing and torturing tens of thousands of opponents offers cautionary tale for American intervention Paramilitary troops from Senegal's rapid intervention force surprised exiled former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré in his plush Dakar villa on Sunday morning, charging him on Tuesday with crimes against humanity, war crimes and torture. The cunning and charismatic...
m not unique in that regard," the US president said. "I think he's a hero for the world and if/when he passes, we know his legacy will linger on throughout the ages." Speaking in Senegal, the first stop on a six-day tour of Africa – only his second trip to sub-Saharan Africa since being elected in 2008 – Obama recounted the impact Mandela had made during his early years in political life. "When I was...
s week-long trip to Africa, where he will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, is intended to push US investment and help strengthen Africa's democratic institutions, officials say. US-Africa relations under Obama have been relatively low-key . This will be only the president's second visit to the continent, and while the likes of Brazil, India and China have been increasingly active in Africa...
t give him a special obligation to attend to the interests of the continent, his position does His name hangs like a talisman across Africa, from the President Barack Obama High School in Nigeria to the Obama Barbershop in Tanzania, so delighted is the continent to have an American president it can call its own. Yet Obama's trip this week will be only his second to sub-Saharan Africa since he became...
s speech – made during a visit that lasted only 20 minutes – that local people remember. "The residents on Goree still talk about Bush's visit, and they are still angry about it," said Sophie Ly Sow, a resident in Dakar. "They were confined to their homes, forbidden from even standing on their balconies to watch." "They suffered all of the disruption but gained none of the benefit." On mainland...
s black liberation struggle , and Robben Island, the prison where Nelson Mandela, who remained in critical condition in hospital last night, languished for years, plotting his nation's rebirth. Obama should not expect red-carpet treatment from all South Africans, despite the historic affinity between the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements. Workers, students and Muslim groups are among those...