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Africa Renewal: April 2016

Cover Story

A model of the future Kigali City. An ambitious Kigali development master plan aims to turn the city into the &Singapore of Africa*. Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa*s cities of the future

Proper planning key to sustainable cities

Departments

Focus on Cities

An artist impression (in the background) of a forthcoming shopping and office complex. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Kigali sparkles on the hills

Rwandan government implements an ambitious development master plan
Lagos Island from Apogbon, overlooking Apapa Wharf Sea Port. Photo: Africa Media Online/Ademola Akinlabi

Lagos now wears a new look

City transforming from chaos of traffic congestion, rickety buses and pickpockets
Aerial view of the district of Plateau in Abidjan, C?te d*Ivoire. Photo: UN Photo/Basile Zoma

Abidjan regains its glamour

Spurred by C?te d*Ivoire*s current economic growth, the city is turning a corner

Also

Scorpio R. Khoury, the 26-year old Rwandese, owner of fashion house &Made in Kigali*. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa looks to its entrepreneurs

A useful strategy in the toolbox to reduce youth unemployment
Mr. Thabo Mbeki (middle) led a High-Level Panel on IFF to    the United States. Photo: ?Africa Renewal/Paddy Ilos

Mbeki panel ramps up war against illicit financial flows

Tax evasion by multinational companies, drug trafficking, smuggling, bribery and embezzlement are the main conduits
Japan*s senior vice-minister of agriculture, forestry and fish eries Taku Eto tries out a Japanese-made tilling machine in Cameroon.  Photo: The Government of Japan

Boost in Japan-Africa ties

Japan is increasingly eager to support Africa*s transformation
A farmer measuring the thickness of a bamboo tree in Madagascar. Photo: INBAR/Lou Yiping

Bamboo: Africa*s untapped potential

The new economic force is generating income, creating jobs and protecting the environment
The world*s largest solar power plant in Morocco will eventually provide 1.1 million people with electricity.  Photo: World Bank/Dana Smillie

Harvesting the sun

Scaling up solar power to meet Africa*s energy needs
A building under construction in Ouagadougou. Photo: Ernest Harsch

A new Burkina Faso in the making

A new agenda of democractic and economic changes
A guest is checked with a metal detector at the entrance of a hotel in Yaounde, Cameroon. Photo: Panapress/Jean-Pierre Kepseu

Terrorism overshadows internal conflicts

As African countries scramble for solutions
Somalis prepare coffee for customers in a  Mogadishu  restaurant. Photo: AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh

Somalia rising from the ashes

※Incredible progress§ noted by the IMF
People walk inside the recently opened Peace Garden, in Hamar jajab district of Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed

From strife to revival, Mogadishu holds hopes and dreams

The Somali capital is in recovery mode despite many challenges