Africa: Black ‘Fraud-Days’ and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
[IPS] Madrid — Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales, most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations that…
Africa: Africa Is Not a Country. It Is a Continent.
[IPS] Brussels (IDN) — “If all I knew about Africa were from popular images, I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable t…
Africa: Out of Africa – Rich Continent, Poor People
[IPS] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Capital flight from the global South is immense, with widespread adverse effects. A new book proposes measures to curb, even reverse capital flight from Africa. It also offers pragmatic lessons for many developing countr…