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09 Apr 2013 In the run-up to the launch of the 2013 Africa Progress Report on 10 May, we will be posting a fact a day on Africa's extractive industries. Here's the first one: Africa has vast untapped potential in natural resources.  On some estimates, the continent hosts 30% of the world’s mineral resources and an even higher proportion of deposits of gold, platinum, diamonds and manganese.   ...

16 Oct 2012 If Africa can convert its population growth into jobs, then it will benefit from a so-called demographic dividend that leads to higher growth, Caroline Kende-Robb tells the BBC's Newsday programme. If not, then Africa's rapid population growth could produce dislocation and instability. Focus on education, job creation, and family planning, Ms Kende-Robb says. ...

12 Sep 2012 In part two of our series on the Africa Progress Panel, DIA's Associate Editor Sarah Jane Cooper-Knock speaks with Peter Eigen about the APP's latest panel report, 'Jobs, Justice and Equity'. Peter Eigen is founder of Transparency International and a member of the Africa Progress Panel. The Africa Progress Panel, established in 2007, is a diverse collection of opinion leaders and accomplished figures from politics, economics, and the third...

31 Aug 2012 Sub-Saharan Africa's second largest producer of oil, Angola holds presidential and parliamentary elections on August 31st, 2012. Making impressive economic progress since its civil war ended in 2002, its economy grew faster than any other economy in the world between 2001 and 2010, growing at an average 11.1 percent per year. However, poverty remains a challenge. ...

21 Jul 2012 In a rapidly changing world, Africa is moving ahead. Africa's creativity feeds success. Economies are growing. Foreign investors are coming to Africa. But progress remains unequal. not enough Africans are benefitting from the new economic growth. Too many of Africa's natural resources are controlled by narrow elites and foreign investors. Combined with political and social exclusion, this means millions of Africans are being denied their...