This week, we focus on Africa’s burgeoning and affluent middle class, and how it is encouraging investment efforts in the continent. We also take a look at how technology is helping new female leaders, and we include reports from North and South Sudan, South Africa, and Nigeria.
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Africa’s New Middle Class Lures Investment
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Women in Business in South Africa: Let’s Make This Work, Says Zuma
Source: Mail and Guardian (South Africa)
Reverse Diaspora: African Executives Leaving the West and Coming Back Home
Source: Time Magazine
Can Technology Change Feminism in Africa?
Source: The East African (Kenya)
Somalia Famine Reaches Historic Proportions (Video)
Source: CBS News
What Regional Papers are Saying About the Mubarak Trial
Source: The Economist
Behind the Scenes at Nigeria’s Royal Wedding
Source: CNN
Zimbabwe is Now the Seventh-Largest Diamond Producing Nation in the World
Source: The Zimbabwean
The Mambilla Plateau in Nigeria: A Beautiful Oasis Near Lagos
Source: Next (Nigeria)
After Failed Drug Trial, Nigerians Receiving Payments from Pfizer
Source: The New York Times
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