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Contents

July 2008

14 Cover Story African Progress Report

Editorial 13 Right and wrong skill sets

Cover Story African Progress Report 14 Goodbye Gleneagles, hello Hokkaido 16 A little helping hand 18 Members of the APP 18 Promises and prospects

Extracts from the report 20 The food crisis 22 Rethinking trade 24 Climate change 28 Water and sanitation 31 Good governance

ITC in Africa 32 Rwanda: An IT revolution 34 Kenya: Safaricom float beats all records

Finance 36 Is Mboweni stoking inflation?

Special Report African Construction

38 Boom time for African construction 39 Chinese and Arabs lead the charge 44 Region by region: North Africa 46 West and Southern Africa 48 East Africa

2010 World Cup Watch 52 Battle for cup tourist dollars

Energy 56 Battle deepens over power upgrade

African Business Awards 58 Tribute to African entrepreneurs

ISSUE 344 WWW.AFRICASIA.COM

Media 60 IC Shortlisted for Diageo Awards

Essay 62 The Delta: Our abused, neglected child

View from the City 66 Diversity is the key

Countryfiles 68 South Africa: ‘Shoot em dead’, police told 70 Malawi: The great green fuel conversion

Topic 72 Xenophobia: Spontaneous or organised?

Reviews Books/Music 80 Stuffed and Starved 82 Africa Celebrates U2