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Climate change: Green investors bypass Africa
Last year the global trade in carbon reduction credits generated more than $64-billion, but Africa has attracted almost none of these investments.
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‘Help women help themselves’
"Africa needs to realise that without dealing with the issue of women, there will be no progress in turning HIV/Aids around," says the United Nations special envoy for HIV/Aids in Africa, Elizabeth Mataka. "Unless we empower women we will remain with limited success," she says.
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New hope for Aids battle in Africa, says UN envoy
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s new envoy for Aids in Africa, Elizabeth Mataka, is the first African and the first woman to hold the post. In an exclusive interview, Mataka lays out her agenda for tackling the disease and calls for an ”African solution” to the crisis by empowering women.
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Former African presidents’ trials mark milestones
The world took a giant step towards eliminating impunity for human rights abuses when the International Criminal Court opened its first official hearing, in November, in a case against a Congolese militia leader. Africa’s own efforts to hold senior government officials and rebel leaders accountable also marked new milestones last year.
