Lawrence Freeman, Author at Modern Ghana

Africa's only nuclear powerplant in Koeberg South Africa. (Courtesy cbn.co.za)

Africa Needs Nuclear Power to Propel Economic Development and Eliminate Poverty-Will Ghana Take the Lead?

Dec 19, 2020 | Feature Article

Ghana has correctly focused on obtaining energy from nuclear power to realize their ambition of becoming an indus ...

Ethiopia’s Conflict: A War Won to Preserve the Nation-State

Dec 1, 2020 | Feature Article

Today, the Ethiopian government is reporting that the National Defense Forces have taken control of city of Mikelle, ...

President Ouattara and wife after voting and Ballot of the four presidential candidates

Ouattara Elected President: Cote d’Ivoire Poised for Progress

Nov 13, 2020 | Feature Article

On October 31, Alassane Dramane Ouattara was re-elected President of Cote d rsquo;Ivoire. The official vote for Pres ...

Are the British Fueling Violence in Ivory Coast Presidential Election?

Oct 11, 2020 | Feature Article

The provocative title of the article, The Vengeance of old men- A dangerous election looms in Ivory Coast, pu ...

Laying of the first stone of the cocoa bean processing plant, the warehouse and the training center for cocoa trades Abidjan on September 22, 2020. President Alassane Ouattara chaired this Tuesday the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the cocoa bean processing plant, warehouse and training center for cocoa trades. Abidjan.net by Atapointe

Ivory Coast Increases Manufacturing Capacity to Advance Their Economy

Sep 27, 2020 | Feature Article

The article below, posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 on Abidjan.net highlights the efforts by the government ...

Millions ‘on the edge’ in DR Congo now in even greater danger of tipping over. WFP food distribution to Internally Displaced People in Kikuku, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. WFP/Ben Anguandia

Africa Threatened With Starvation: No Objective Reason

Sep 27, 2020 | Feature Article

There is no objective reason for hunger in Africa. African nations have abundant fertile land and many water syst ...

Th AfCFTA is intended to be a new platform for the continent’s economic growth. (courtesy twnafrica.org)

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed: “Africa’s Peace and Prosperity Begin at Home”-More is R...

Sep 18, 2020 | Feature Article

Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed make a strong case for African nations to chart a course to bring prosperity ...

Trump’s Aid Cut Harmful to Ethiopia and All of Africa

Sep 9, 2020 | Feature Article

President Donald Trump has instructed Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo to pull back from a commitment to provide $100 ...

The West Continues to Attack China to the Detriment of Africa

Aug 29, 2020 | Feature Article

The author, W Gyude Moore, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, and a former minister of ...

Deng Xiaoping, who put China firmly on the path of “reform and opening up.

China Eliminated Poverty With Science and Infrastructure. It Can Be Done in Afri...

Aug 16, 2020 | Feature Article

If one examines the long path from the end of China rsquo;s disastrous ldquo;cultural revolution rdquo; in the 1 ...

Artist drawing of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

Africa Requires Ethiopia Fill Its Dam

Jul 18, 2020 | Feature Article

Ethiopia is entering a crucial period for the future of its nation, as we approach the second half of July. Ethiopia ...

IMF Conditionalities Contribute to Shortage of Health Workers

Jul 15, 2020 | Feature Article

As I have told my friends for many years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is incapable of helping nations grow ...

In a sign of the continent’s increasing importance for Russia, its president, Vladimir Putin, held the first Russia-Africa summit in October 2019

Russia Bringing Nuclear Power to Rwanda and Other African Nations. Resolving Lib...

Jul 3, 2020 | Feature Article

Ignoring the geo-political overtones from Deutsche Welle (see link below), the article does discuss Russia rsquo;s r ...

Cambridge University Press, 2018. Hardback, Softback 330 pages, and Kindle

Creativity Is the True Source of Economic Wealth

Jun 26, 2020 | Feature Article

(I promised Patrick Kabanda over a year ago I would write a review of his book, ldquo;The Creative Wealth of Nat ...

No More Lies, No More Anti-China Propaganda: There is No China-Africa ‘Debt-trap...

Jun 21, 2020 | Feature Article

China-Africa Research Initiative-(CARI) presented an interesting and useful webinar entitled : Debt Relief with C ...

Developing Nations Must Have Steel to Industrialize: Congo`s Steel Industry is R...

May 27, 2020 | Feature Article

I am posting below in English and French, an interesting article by PD Lawton, a journalist and creator of the websi ...

President Muhammadu Buhari-left and his new Chief of Staff, Prof Ibrahim Gambari-right. (Politics Nigeria)

Gambari COS for Buhari: Right Man at Right Time for Nigeria

May 16, 2020 | Feature Article

President Muhammadu Buhari has unexpectedly chosen an exceptional new Chief of Staff (COS), Professor Ibrahim Gambar ...

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