Daily Archives: 2007-03-21


What’s Growing With African governments recognizing the urgent need to increase spending on agriculture, Victoria Averill takes a look at what the big agricultural exports are, who is investing in them and what is being done to boost the sector The importance of agriculture in Africa cannot be overestimated. Agriculture […]

Whats Growing


ESSENTIAL: DAKAR West Africa’s cosmopolitan centre of power, Dakar is a bustling, dynamic city teeming with energy, as Chloe Greenbank discovers COUNTRY CODE FOR SENEGAL +221 Dakar, the capital of Senegal, is located on the country’s Atlantic Coast and is Africa’s westernmost city – an advantageous departure point for transatlantic […]

Essential Dakar


Business Browser Every month, we review businesses, products and meet people behind key organisations across our network Organization to know Close the Gap (https://www.close-the-gap.org/) is an international non-profit organization that has embraced the need to narrow the digital gap between the Northern and Southern hemispheres by recycling used computers and […]

Business Browser



Hidden Gems: Where to Buy Jewellery in Antwerp and Brussels Contemporary jewellery in Antwerp has grown up. From wood, copper and tin via silver and semi-precious stones, its highly creative designers are moving into gold and the diamonds for which the city is renowned, as Lisa Johnson discovers As the […]

Hidden Gems