As the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development closes, ARI’s director selects salient facts and features from the comprehensive Habitat III Regional Report for Africa
The case for an accessible and continuously updated Pan-African database of scientific research facilities and their equipment inventories. This would boost intra-Africa collaboration and the scientific input to national development programmes.
Our director Edward Paice was quoted in the April Edition of the African Business in their report “Beyond the Megacity” profiling the challenges and potential of less publicized African cities.
Jamie Hitchen spent a fortnight in Nigeria in December 2014 working on a new publication about traditional medicine. Here he gives readers a glimpse into what an ARI research trip entails.
In this interview Kanouté discusses his own experiences of participatory budgeting in Matam and the opportunities for a nationwide project with sustainable impact in Senegal.
The scale and impact of the First World War campaign in eastern Africa were gargantuan. The troops, carriers and millions of civilians caught up in the fighting should not be forgotten.