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    Resource Richness / Population Poverty
    • Sep 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Resource Richness / Population Poverty

    It is generally admitted that resource-rich economies are the victims of the "curse of natural resources” and experiencing poor economic...
    2018 was the year of the fight against corruption in Africa
    • Aug 11, 2019
    • 1 min

    2018 was the year of the fight against corruption in Africa

    This had been announced in January 2018 by Moussa Faki Mahamat, president of the African Union Commission at the end of a session held in...
    Environment responsible leaders
    • Aug 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    Environment responsible leaders

    An initiative of magnitude that we rarely see. The Ethiopian government has launched a massive reforestation program, based on the...
    Fish stock depletion
    • Jul 31, 2019
    • 2 min

    Fish stock depletion

    The Mangrove Foundation dashboard provides us with indications on our compliance towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. One of...
    Tax evasion in Africa and development aid
    • Jul 23, 2019
    • 2 min

    Tax evasion in Africa and development aid

    A newly issued report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Mauritius Leaks shows how tax evasion affects the...
    The terrifying impact of climate change in north India
    • Jun 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    The terrifying impact of climate change in north India

    The freshly elected nationalist government of India has innovated with the creation of the “Ministry of Water”. This is probably one of...
    India and development aid
    • May 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    India and development aid

    Amazing data on a country where we have an ongoing project, member of the G20 and ranking 5th in the World with 63.9 billion dollars in...
    Overshoot day 2019
    • May 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    Overshoot day 2019

    It was at the initiative of the party dei Greng, member of the government coalition, that May 9, the day of Europe, was announced a...
    Youth unemployment in Africa
    • May 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    Youth unemployment in Africa

    It is a real time bomb the bursting of which seems imminent, and one may fear that the shock wave could exceed the continent. The African...
    Governance in Africa
    • May 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    Governance in Africa

    The legacy of colonization in Africa is twofold, and more than sixty years later, or even more, it lasts. Unless the events in Algeria...
    Daily Carbon Count
    • Apr 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    Daily Carbon Count

    In an effort to raise public consciousness, the Guardian, the UK daily newspaper will from now on report the CO2 level in the atmosphere...
    Humans and total biomass
    • Jan 28, 2019
    • 2 min

    Humans and total biomass

    An interesting article in the Guardian published in May 2019 highlighted that the 7.6bio people on Earth only represent 0.01% of the...
    How empowering women can positively impact global warming ?
    • Nov 22, 2018
    • 2 min

    How empowering women can positively impact global warming ?

    The New York Time bestseller “Drawdown”, by Paul Hawken, is “The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming”. ...
    • Oct 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    2018 Nobel Peace Prize

    We have already written about the women's situation in Kivu (DR of Congo) where we recently initiated a project. At the global level,...
    Some of the reasons motivating giving
    • Oct 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Some of the reasons motivating giving

    The Americans tend to give more than Europeans (2.1% of GDP versus less than 1% for the EU). A (not so recent) article in Forbes gives...
    Investigating a new environmental project in Italy
    • Oct 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Investigating a new environmental project in Italy

    With diversification in mind, the Mangrove Foundation recently initiated discussions with MedWet, an association having the objective to...
    • Oct 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    An amazing destiny : Zegeye Asfaw Abdi

    We have recently met in Addis Ababa the president of Hundee: one of the local NGO with which we cooperate. Mr. Abdi is a trained lawyer...
    Why the wealth of Africa doesn’t make Africans wealthy?
    • Oct 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Why the wealth of Africa doesn’t make Africans wealthy?

    We reported in a recent post on the estimated wealth of some Africa leaders. Beyond just the ruling presidents, a whole cast of...
    African debt crisis
    • Oct 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    African debt crisis

    We are in this article making an attempt to correlate some key figures relating to a selection of African countries, available from...
    • Oct 30, 2018
    • 3 min

    The wealth of African leaders

    According to independent studies (see i.a. here), the top 10 wealthiest African presidents ranked as follows until recently. Some of them...
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