Sep 15, 20192 minResource Richness / Population PovertyIt is generally admitted that resource-rich economies are the victims of the "curse of natural resources” and experiencing poor economic...
Aug 11, 20191 min2018 was the year of the fight against corruption in AfricaThis had been announced in January 2018 by Moussa Faki Mahamat, president of the African Union Commission at the end of a session held in...
Aug 7, 20191 minEnvironment responsible leadersAn initiative of magnitude that we rarely see. The Ethiopian government has launched a massive reforestation program, based on the...
Jul 31, 20192 minFish stock depletionThe Mangrove Foundation dashboard provides us with indications on our compliance towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. One of...
Jul 23, 20192 minTax evasion in Africa and development aidA newly issued report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the Mauritius Leaks shows how tax evasion affects the...
Jun 8, 20192 minThe terrifying impact of climate change in north IndiaThe freshly elected nationalist government of India has innovated with the creation of the “Ministry of Water”. This is probably one of...
May 19, 20191 minIndia and development aidAmazing 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...
May 19, 20191 minOvershoot day 2019It was at the initiative of the party dei Greng, member of the government coalition, that May 9, the day of Europe, was announced a...
May 8, 20192 minYouth unemployment in AfricaIt 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...
May 8, 20192 minGovernance 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...
Apr 10, 20191 minDaily Carbon CountIn an effort to raise public consciousness, the Guardian, the UK daily newspaper will from now on report the CO2 level in the atmosphere...
Jan 28, 20192 minHumans and total biomassAn interesting article in the Guardian published in May 2019 highlighted that the 7.6bio people on Earth only represent 0.01% of the...
Nov 22, 20182 minHow 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, 20181 min2018 Nobel Peace PrizeWe have already written about the women's situation in Kivu (DR of Congo) where we recently initiated a project. At the global level,...
Oct 30, 20181 minSome of the reasons motivating givingThe 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...
Oct 30, 20182 minInvestigating a new environmental project in ItalyWith diversification in mind, the Mangrove Foundation recently initiated discussions with MedWet, an association having the objective to...
Oct 30, 20181 minAn amazing destiny : Zegeye Asfaw AbdiWe 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...
Oct 30, 20181 minWhy 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...
Oct 30, 20182 minAfrican debt crisisWe are in this article making an attempt to correlate some key figures relating to a selection of African countries, available from...
Oct 30, 20183 minThe wealth of African leadersAccording to independent studies (see i.a. here), the top 10 wealthiest African presidents ranked as follows until recently. Some of them...