AfricaFocus Bulletin
October 16, 2018 Africa/Global: Drug Company Profits vs. Public Health
"Oxfam examined publicly available data on subsidiaries of four of the largest US
drug companies and found a striking pattern. In the countries analyzed that have
standard corporate tax rates, rich or poor, the corporations’ pretax profits were
low. In eight advanced economies, drug company profits averaged 7 percent, while in
seven developing countries they averaged 5 percent. Yet globally, these corporations
reported annual global profits of up to 30 percent. So where were the high profits?
Tax havens. In four countries that charge low or no corporate tax rates, these
companies posted skyrocketing 31 percent profit margins." - Oxfam, September 2018
October 1, 2018 Africa/Global: Professionals Enabling Corruption
"Lifting the veil of corporate secrecy reveals a simple principle: Offshore is
actually a set of professional services that specialize in enabling businesses and
individuals to effectively retreat from legal, regulatory, and public scrutiny,
empowering them vis-a-vis those who have remained 'onshore' without access to such
services." - Hudson Institute
September 17, 2018 Uganda: Time for the Youth
"The struggle we are facing is not limited to Uganda alone, but it's a struggle
against oppression across Africa and indeed across the world. So, just like we got
support from across Africa and across the world, we call upon Africans, especially
young Africans to know that there will never be another time for them to assert their
rights other than now." - Bobi Wine
August 27, 2018 Africa: Migration Reports Show Complex Realities
"In the case of Africa, the very idea that the situation to be faced is a rapidly
increasing “migration crisis” driven by a growing number of young men and women
desperately trying to enter Europe denies the basic facts [such as that]
the vast majority of Africans move within the continent; most Africans move for
reasons of work, study and family; and most Africans living abroad are not from the
poorest sections of their societies of origin." - UN Economic Commission for Africa,
Situation Analysis
August 15, 2018 West Africa/Europe: From Cocoa to Chocolate
"Cocoa growing communities, particularly in West Africa, are facing poverty, child
labour and deforestation that have been made worse by a rapid fall in prices for
cocoa. Widely touted efforts in the cocoa industry to improve the lives of farmers,
communities and the environment made in the past decade are having little impact. In
fact, the modest scope of the proposed solutions does not even come close to
addressing the scale of the problem." - Cocoa Barometer, April 2018
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July 30, 2018
East Africa: Ethiopia/Eritrea Peace Hopes, Cautions
July 18, 2018
Africa/Global: 10 Ways to Misunderstand the Trump Election, and Why They Still Matter
June 20, 2018
Congo (Kinshasa): Ebola Response Shows Lessons Learned
June 4, 2018
West Africa/Global: Tax Evasion without Borders
May 21, 2018
Namibia/Africa: Afrobarometer Insights
May 7, 2018
USA/Africa: Achieving 100% Renewable Energy
May 7, 2018
USA/Africa: Renewable Energy Advances on Many Fronts
April 23, 2018
Ethiopia: Wax, Gold, and "Ethiopianness"
April 9, 2018
Africa: Storybooks in African Languages
March 26, 2018
Zimbabwe: Women Continue Protest at Hwange Coal
March 12, 2018
Africa/Global: Charting Where They Hide the Money, 2
March 12, 2018
Africa/Global: Charting Where They Hide the Money, 1
February 26, 2018
Nigeria/Global: Promising Potential for Solar Mini-Grids
February 12, 2018
Sudan: Perilous Crossroads on Refugee Map
January 29, 2018
Africa/Global: Humanitarian Attention Deficits
January 15, 2018
South Africa/USA: Inequality is Extreme and Still Rising
January 15, 2018
Africa/Global: World Trends in Inequality
December 18, 2017
Cameroon: Speech, Rights, and Aging Autocracy
December 11, 2017
Africa/Global: Paradise Papers, Plus
November 27, 2017
Zimbabwe: After Mugabe, Looking Forward
November 27, 2017
Zimbabwe: After Mugabe, Looking Back
November 13, 2017
Africa/Global: Counterproductive Counterterrorism
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