After 18 months away from the field, it has been nice coming back to check on operations at Raintree Farms. The moringa powder facility is operational, but there is still a lot of work left to…
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Hamisi Kigwangalla, Member of Parliament in Tanzania on why Sub-Saharan Africa didn’t experience an ‘African Spring’: One of the key mobilisation tools of the middle class – technology – is also not so readily available in…
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How US evangelicals are shaping development in Uganda – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
July 25, 2014 Diaspora at workJames Kassaga Arinaitwe is a rising Ugandan voice to watch. I’ve had the pleasure of sharing a conversational meal with him in New York and in Kampala. I find him to be a kindred spirit, both as a…
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Remit.ug is headed to Switzerland after winning Seedstars World Kampala
June 27, 2014 news Projects technologyPost by remit.ug. Congrats to our pitching team Stone Atwine and Collins Mugume who represented Redcore Ltd. Switzerland, here we come!…
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I attended the reading of ‘Just Me, You, and the Silence‘, by fellow Ugandan JUDY ADONG. During the panel discussion, which included notable, and often “quotable” Binyavanga Wainaina, an audience member asked what they could do…
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Google reportedly launching 180 satellites for global internet service | The Verge
June 2, 2014 technologyGoogle’s reported plans to roll out a fleet of satellites likely won’t make its efforts with drones or balloons obsolete. Tim Farrar, a consultant who worked for a company that tried to offer satellite-based internet access…
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Study: Fairtrade doesn’t always yield highest wages | Marketplace.org
May 27, 2014 Agriculture EconomyConsumers who pay extra for coffee or other products with Fairtrade labels may not be helping the lives of the world’s poor, a new study suggests. Researchers from SOAS, University of Londonm spent four years looking…
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Up to 20,000 migrants have died at sea trying to reach Europe over the past 20 years. Instead of engaging thoughtfully and constructively with this tragedy, a Dutch daily newspaper published a stereotypical cartoon mocking migrants…
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Join me and a distinguished list of discussants for an evening of discourse about the state of remittances and economic growth in Africa. The Africa-America Institute’s next Speaker Series panel discussion will explore the role remittances can…
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David Brooks’ op-ed at NYT this week, The Real Africa, is worth a read if you want to put #Bringbackourgirls into perspective of the whole continent: But this is more or less the opposite of the…
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