Like most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of ESA’s TIGER initiative, satellite data are being used to identify underground water resources in the drought-prone country.
Due to the rainfall variability in time and in space, during recent years the rain-fed agriculture struggles to meet the requirements of food [...]
By Mary Kimani, for United Nations Africa Renewal magazine
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The small, dusty village of Mayange lies 20 kilometres from Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Its health centre has fewer than 40 beds but serves an estimated 35,000 people. In most ways, the Mayange centre is like thousands of other health facilities across the continent which struggle [...]
Africa is the fastest growing market for mobile telephone. It has also been shown that growth on new subscribers is biggest in the developing world.
Studies by the International Telecommunications Union indicate that of the world’s mobile subscribers only 33% were in the developed world with the remaining 67% in the developing world at the end of 2006.
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Standing in the midst of a freshly planted maize field, Bright Osei Kwaku recalls that last year he more than doubled his output with the help of improved seeds, fertilizer and advice on farming techniques. Altogether, [...]
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the sixth in an annual series of reports published by IFC and the World Bank.
