Tax fraud combined with dirty money from criminal activity, including trafficking and terrorism – are seriously weakening the economic health of African states.
SAB’s resilience has allowed it to become a key player globally.
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The development trajectory of South African born brewer SABMiller peaked with the 2016 $104 billion merger with Anheuser-Busch InBev. Behind it lies an extraordinary journey.
Migrants arrive in the coastal city of Tripoli, Libya, May 26, 2017.
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Rethinking work is crucial for industrialised and emerging economies, where job losses are being felt even in the presence of substantial, although diminishing, economic growth.
Banks are in such poor conditions that it affects Tunisians’ day to day lives.
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President Trump wants to slash global health funding at a time when more investment is needed, not less. This spending can protect Americans – as well as foreigners – from deadly diseases.
A wastepicker working in the streets of Casablanca. (Photo Pascal Garret, July 2013)
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China has launched a quietly aggressive global trade, development and infrastructure initiative based on the ancient Silk Road model. But is Africa welcome on the journey to renewed prosperity?
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the new Director-General of the World Health Organisation
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The new director-general of the World Health Organisation has set universal health coverage as a priority. There are several ways to make headway with this goal.
Karen Hofman, University of the Witwatersrand et Charles Parry, South African Medical Research Council
Under pressure to create new markets, big alcohol producers are scouring the African continent in what promises to yield negative socioeconomic consequences.
As we celebrate Africa Day and reflect on how far the continent has come since the Organisation of African Unity was founded in 1963, it’s a good time to assess whether democracy is working.
Workers harvesting from a commercial farm in Ethiopia.
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Many African countries are still searching for inclusive commercial farming models that can bring in private investment without dispossessing local people.
Vinyards in the Sancerre wine-growing region of France.
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The latest figures on the world wine market confirm that the industry is undergoing considerable change, with European countries finding their positions and strategies challenged by the new world..
Keeping medical data electronically is ideal. It saves time and can be used more efficiently.
Philip Setel
Africa is expected to have among the steepest increases in the number of people affected by non-communicable diseases - it needs health care systems that can cope.
Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle et conseiller de la direction de l'INED, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)