For the poor and working people there is nothing cheerful in the proposed 2011 budget presented by President Goodluck Jonathan on December 15, 2010. Just like the previous ones it is meant to continue a regime of capitalist neo-liberal attacks and legalise the looting of public resources by elements in government and their fronts called private sector. The president speech on the budget which is tagged "budget of fiscal consolidation, inclusive economic growth and employment generation" was (…)
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Nigeria : 2011 BUDGET : CONSOLIDATION OF NEO-LIBERAL CAPITALIST ATTACKS ON THE ORDINARY PEOPLE
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Light up Africa
5 juillet 2015United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), declared “Viable options exist to power Africa using mini-grid and of-grid solar, wind, hydro, and biomass technologies. Projects that use solar panels or small-scale hydro power to provide schools and villages with power demonstrate what is possible, but the challenge is in scaling up these solutions to meet demands across the continent.”
Across Africa most people rely on traditional fuels such as wood, biomass, or (…) -
LES PATRONS VOYOUS DU Congo Brazzaville
23 septembre 2011Parallèlement à notre série nommé "LA SAGA DU PANIER DE CRABE" sur la justice au Congo Brazzaville, nous commençons une nouvelle série de chroniques sur "LES PATRONS VOYOUS DU Congo Brazzaville". Nous demandons à nos fidèles lecteurs d’alimenter cette série qui va démontrer l’étendue des maux qui frappent ce merveilleux pays.
En janvier 2007 Denis GOKANA demande que la que la SNPC-SERVICE soit liquider sans explication dans la mesure où c’était lui le patron et conseillé de SASSOU NGUESSO (…) -
Afrique du sud : Too Late for Many
22 juin 2015When Oupa Sonopi started working in the mine at the age of 25, he was never informed of the high risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB). "Although we would hear about colleagues in the mines being treated for TB, I was not aware that the environment we worked under could be a huge contributor to me getting TB. We were not informed when we were recruited," he says. According to Sonopi, most of his colleagues who work at the gold mines in Carletonville, a small gold-mining town 86 kilometres (…)
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Burkina Faso : ONEA ET SONABEL, les rescapées des privatisations !
21 juillet 2010, par Attac BurkinaDe 1991 à 2010, le Burkina Faso s’est illustré comme étant l’un des bons élèves sous régionaux, voire continentaux, en ce qui concerne la mise en application stricte des PAS (Programmes d’ajustement structurel). En plus du retrait progressif de l’Etat des secteurs sociaux de base comme l’éducation et la santé, la mise en œuvre de ces programmes a également concerné la privatisation d’environ 27 entreprises issues du maigre tissu industriel de notre pays. Les premières séries de privatisation (…)
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Journée mondiale de l’industrialisation de l’Afrique : Un tournant pour le continent ?
17 décembre 2012, par Tchaptchet Jean-MartinC’est en application de la Résolution RES/44/44/237 votée par l’Assemblée générale des Nations-Unies que fut instauré cet événement. A cette occasion, la communauté internationale et tout particulièrement ses membres d’Afrique, organisent des activités et des débats autour d’un thème particulier. En tant qu’agence spécialisée de l’Onu pour la promotion de l’industrie, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Industrie (Onudi) joue le rôle central pour la célébration de cette Journée. Le thème (…)
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South Africa - It could have been different
15 janvier 2016Julius Malema, leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters, challenged Nelson Mandela’s post-apartheid legacy. Malema accused Mandela of “turning against himself” in abandoning elements of the Freedom Charter during the democratic transition in the early 1990s. The charter was drawn up by a coalition led by the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1950s and is still viewed as the blueprint for an equal, non-racial and democratic society. Mandela, he noted, was hosted by a rich white (…)
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The Resource Curse
11 mars 2015Africa is characterised by plenty of natural resources and yet fails to address social issues which includes high rate of unemployment, poverty, severe deprivation, food insecurity and so forth. Resources are in the hands of the few capitalists, which makes them to be unbeneficial and disastrous to the populace.
Many African countries that possess rich minerals they often fall short of victim to resource curse such as Congo, Nigeria, Botswana to name the few and have fared much worse than (…) -
Industries extractives : une occasion manquée pour la transparence, une victoire pour les lobbies
18 octobre 2014L’Assemblée nationale a voté cet après-midi la loi qui introduit l’obligation pour les entreprises pétrolières, gazières, minières et forestières de publier tous les paiements faits à des gouvernements, pays par pays et projet par projet. Si la mobilisation de certains député-e-s a permis d’améliorer le projet de loi, en garantissant notamment que les rapports des entreprises soient accessibles gratuitement au public, les ONG constatent que le texte se contente de transposer la Directive a (…)
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South Africa’s Top Five Wealthiest Blacks
21 mai 2015A New research this week revealed that 20 percent of high net worth individuals have accumulated their fortune through broad-based black economic empowerment (BB-BEE) such as share schemes in multinational corporations.
However, the top three of the five black high net worth individuals profiled by Ventures Africa had political connections and they could have won the deals that made them rich because of this.
This has been a hot topic in South Africa in the past couple of years, (…)
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