African Business articles from May 2009

African Business archives from May 2009

Cote d'Ivoire PM's clean sweep.(Fine governance)(water pollution and waste disposal meetings)(Conference news)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... When 11 government ministers ignored a meeting called by Prime Minister Guillaume Soro to discuss ways and means of tackling pollution and other insanitary conditions in the cote d'Ivoire's capital city of Abidjan, the PM made a clean sweep of...

Gridlock snags island economy: traffic congestion is costing Mauritius around $100m as workers find themselves trapped for hours at a time in traffic. The problem is so bad that solutions proposed include a free public transport system. Nasseem Ackbarally reports from Port Louis.(MAURITIUS)
May 1, 2009... Everybody, from workers to bosses, using the roads in Mauritius' main cities during the morning and evening, rush hour have the same complaint: "It's too much! We cannot continue like this," before asking, "when will the situation ever...

Island reels from tourist no-shows.(Tourism)
May 1, 2009... Mauritius was expecting two million tourists over the next few years but the decline in arrivals coinciding with the world financial crisis has forced the island to rethink its tourism policies. With tourist arrivals down by 3.8% in January...

Comrades in Arms: how the ANC lost the moral high ground.(Book review)
May 1, 2009... After the Party Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future By Andrew Feinstein [pounds sterling]14.99 Verso ISBN: 978-1-84467-356-8 First published in South Africa in October 2007, this is an explosive...

A Cultural Custodian: Benin City's Melody Maestro.(Biography)
May 1, 2009... Guitar-Boy Superstar Sir Victor Uwaifo Soundway SNDWCD012 This 19-track compilation of the recordings of Sir Victor Uwaifo concentrates on his so-called Ekassa period, although in the interests of placing his work in context,...