Water utilities in sub-Saharan Africa have lagged behind when it comes to seeing the benefits of mobile technology, but the market is catching up fast. Read the full story here. Published in the March 2016 issue of Global Water Intelligence. Photo by Rachel Strohm on Flickr. Continue reading African water utilities go mobile
Despite the return to political legitimacy, the country’s precarious stability has kept investors at bay. Read the full article here. Published in the May/June 2016 edition of Africa in Fact. Continue reading Madagascar: FDI and politics out of sync
Africans must invest in Africa – just like Japan or China did on their path to development. This is what progressive African business leaders think – and how they have successfully done it. Read the full article here. Cover story of the March 2016 edition of The Africa Report. Photo by ©BBC World Service on Flickr. Continue reading Africans investing in Africa
Trachoma is responsible for the visual impairment of some 2m people. Yet this eye infection is easily treatable and preventable by using the SAFE strategy. S stands for Surgery, A for Antibiotics, F for Facial Hygiene and E for Environmental Cleanliness. Until recently however, it wasn’t clear exactly where the disease was. A global survey found out so that SAFE can be rolled out. Listen … Continue reading Saving people’s sight through surgery and mapping
Trachoma, an eye infection that has robbed 1m people of their sight, is under systematic attack. Read the full story here. Published in The Economist, 27 February 2016. Photo courtesy of Peter Nicholls / Sightsavers. Continue reading Trachoma: now it’s time to say goodbye
As Ebola spreads across West Africa, we talk to the medical and humanitarian professionals scrambling to contain the spread of the epidemic. Read the full story here. Published on the Guardian’s Global Development Professionals’ Network, 14 July 2014. Photo: Sylvain Cherkaoui/Cosmos/Médecins Sans Frontières Continue reading Ebola: voices from the epicentre of the epidemic
The changing face of Africa’s water infrastructure landscape is leading the African Development Bank to adopt new strategies in order to support the sector. The bank’s water head, Mohamed El Azizi, spoke to GWI. Read the story here. Published in Global Water Intelligence, 16 Mar 2014. Image by Sara Lafleur-Vetter©, on flickr Continue reading Developing Africa’s true water potential
There may only be 420km between Madagascar and the rest of the African continent, but the Red Island remains resolutely un-African. Time for a change? Read the full story here. Published in Africa in Fact, 1 May 2014. Continue reading How African is Madagascar?
Malagasy company Guanomad has won over the local market with its organic fertilisers made from bat guano (excrements) and expanded its reach to Europe. Next, Africa. Read the full story here. Published in The Africa Report, 14 Mar 2014. Photo ©Guanomad Continue reading Turning excrements into big bucks
Prioritising water and sanitation can be hard for decision-makers in developing countries faced with enormous needs and little resources. But leadership and focus on good management practices can go a long way. Read the full story here. Published on The Guardian’s Development Professionals’ Network, 18 Dec. Continue reading Investing in sustainable water and sanitation
