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  • Ghana: How Far Can the Ebola Crisis Go?

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    Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and parts of Nigeria are literally in the Ebola hemorrhagic fever lock-down. For months, these West African countries have been battling the contagious Ebola virus disease which has claimed over 1000 lives and left at least 2000 infected with the disease. Ebola is a deadly disease with no known medical […]

  • The Move Towards Diversification: New prospects in value offer

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    This article was originally drafted by the African Center for Economic Transformation for the newsletter “West Africa Trends” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The forecast trends for tourism on the African continent are encouraging. Over the next decade, Africa’s tourism industry is expected to […]

  • Crowdmapping the First Election of the Arab Spring

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    As the year 2011 has passed, it is not out of place to look back at what the internet has meant to Africa’s growing democracy and the effects that will remain for a long time to come. It is turning out that crowdmaps are taking Africa’s election accountability a notch […]