Articles from African Business (April 1, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
2010: construction companies in capacity crunch; Pressure is mounting on South Africa's building industry, forcing up costs and putting the squeeze on skills and raw materials. Tom Nevin reports.	Nevin, Tom		1422
AB guide to African currencies.		Statistical table	505
AFC's international launch.		Brief article	149
Africa's top 200 companies.		Statistical table	6028
Africa's top 200 companies.	Ford, Neil; Nevin, Tom	Brief article	162
Between Faith & History: A Biography of J A Kufuor.		Book review	174
Botswana's San peoples win land battle in court: in one of Africa's most high-profile land disputes, Botswana's Bushmen have won the right to live on their ancestral land--but with many strings attached. Tom Nevin reports.	Nevin, Tom		1425
Building financial ties: Mauritius-India co-operation.	Singh, Krishnan		363
Can Conte hold it together? Protests and riots rocked the usually placid country of Guinea indicating that the people may be losing patience with the government of Lansana Conte. Guinea has the world's largest reserves of bauxite and a new aluminium smelter will add considerable value to its main export--if stability can be maintained. Report by Neil Ford.	Ford, Neil		1481
Can the Grameen experience work in Africa? Can Africa learn from the revolutionary micro-finance solutions pioneered by the Grameen Bank experience in Bangladesh? The bank's founder and the bank itself were awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Neil Ford discusses the philosophy behind the system.	Ford, Neil		1565
Central Africa: foreign companies dominate.			750
Clean diamonds: US Jewellers act.	Abioseh-James, Ben		321
Cocoa, coffee, sugar prices move up, tea declines: Moin Siddiqi presents his annual review of Africa's soft commodities, focusing on cocoa, coffee, sugar and tea. Prices have generally tended to move upwards, except in the case of tea in which chronic oversupply is driving down earnings.	Siddiqi, Moin		2620
Coke backs young Africans.		Brief article	129
Container matters.	Ita, Melford		1040
Eastern Africa: Kenya still heavyweight champion.			3096
Elephant cull mooted.		Brief article	143
Fighting the Diseases of Poverty.		Book review	264
Forum for business.		Brief article	129
From Dark Heart to Kalahari.		Book review	217
Giant ore mine for Senegal.		Brief article	117
Global investors betting on a resurgent Nigeria: Africans countries have shown remarkable resilience over the past year, with most achieving positive growth figures. Higher oil and commodity prices, coupled with greater foreign exchange inflows, have sustained growth and are likely to continue doing so over this year.	Siddiqi, Moin		1561
Grasping Africa.		Book review	170
Insurance in Nigeria.	Obaremi, Niyi		4720
Masters of the hard bargain: continuing our series of business off the beaten track, Katrina Manson and James Knight found, in Mauritania, a commercial class savvy for a business deal like no other. Never mind the oil finds, it's hard bargaining and hard work that makes this country tick.	Manson, Katrina; Knight, James		1515
Mugabe--the lost opportunities.	Versi, Anver		847
New plant commissioned.		Brief article	124
Nigeria to double power capacity this year: at long last, it appears that Nigeria's power sector is about to undergo a revolution. If all goes according to plan, capacity is expected to double by the end of this year and triple within the next two.	Ford, Neil		1394
North Africa: Egypt and Morocco retain top positions.			1470
Path to self-sufficiency: international organisations such as the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Ifad) are increasingly looking at micro-finance schemes to promote development in rural regions of Eastern Africa. Dominque Magada reports on one such success story.	Magada, Dominque		1498
Proof required: a heated argument?	Patel, Raj	Brief article	254
Richards Bay, rail expansion will boost exports: coal is one of the main pillars of South Africa's export strategy but limited capacity at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal has placed an artificial cap on production expansion. Neil Ford reports on plans to increase capacity at the port and to improve the country's rail infrastructure.	Ford, Neil		1487
Rwanda, Burundi to join East African Community: Rwanda and Burundi look set to join the East African Community (EAC) in July this year, boosting the organisation's membership to five countries. This will be a radical departure for the francophone countries as they seek to integrate their economies with the English/Kiswahili-speaking Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Report by Neil Ford.	Ford, Neil		1511
Skilled workers head south: Zimbabwe's leading construction companies are beginning to feel the pinch of a massive haemorrhaging of skilled artisans who are making the great trek down south as the World Cup draws near. Barnabas Thondhlana reports from Harare.	Thondhlana, Barnabas		1449
South Africa still reigns supreme.			1482
Southern Africa: a homogenous honeypot.			3220
Support for women entrepreneurs.		Brief article	96
The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths and World Oil Futures.		Book review	323
The China option: Sino-US dialogue.	Header, Geraldo		497
The Definitive Drucker.		Book review	320
The dignity of defiance: beats of the heart.		Video recording review	702
The Global Compact: the private sector and UN principles.	Badejo, Kola	Letter to the editor	320
The incomplete legacy of the abolition of slavery: on 25 March, there were global celebrations marking 200 years since slavery was abolished. In this essay, our guest columnist places this event in the wider modern history of Africa and shows that while African emancipation has come a long way, it is far from complete.	Fofack, Hippolyte		1520
The next US president? Promises of change.		Book review	1669
The Writing on the Wall: China and the 21st Century.		Book review	178
UK shops urged to buy African.		Brief article	117
UN HQ overrun with rodents.		Brief article	100
West Africa: Nigeria rules sub-region.		Survey	1870
Western Union's 150-year-old recipe for success: remittances now constitute the second largest flow of capital to the developing world. In some African countries, remittances form the largest segment of foreign exchange income and contribute substantially to national GDPs. Anver Versi reports on how Western Union has become the global leader in the money transfer industry.	Versi, Anver		1463