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Day: July 9, 2011

AFRICA STILL FEELING THE CREDIT CRUNCH

The housing market is being stymied by continuing borrowing problems, says Akinola Olawore, Executive Director, African Real Estate Society   JUST like in the UK,

TURNING BURDENS INTO OPPORTUNITIES

If Africa is to undergo an energy surge, it needs to break from monopolies, believe Simon Rolland and Aneri Patel, from the Alliance for Rural

FLATPACK HOMES FOR THE FUTURE OF UGANDA

The answer to Africa’s chronic housing shortage could be an innovative new design system, discovers Eric Jackson   Uganda's population is predominately rural, and its

AFRICA CAN BE AN ECONOMIC MIRACLE

But it needs the right kind of investment, says Toby Quantrill, from the Fairtrade Foundation THERE are few, if any, challenges facing Africa today not

AFRICA, A LAND OF VAST POTENTIAL

WHEN assessing the potential of Africa, Barack Obama used his familiar mantra of ‘yes you can’ to insist that the people of this vastly diverse