APP in the News
May 16th
UNDP Report echos priorities and recommendations outlined in the 2012 APR.
May 11th
Guardian UK highlights APP's 2012 Africa Progress Report, Jobs, Justice and Equity and the call for a big push towards meeting the 2015 MDGs.
May 11th
Guardian UK article details how African growth may be jeopardized by inequality.
May 11th
May 9th
Africa Progress Panel Member and former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo discusses the 2012 Africa Progress Report, GDP growth, job creation and poverty reduction in Africa, with This is Africa.
May 9th
This is Africa Editor, Lanre Akinola interviews Africa Progress Panel Executive Director, Caroline Kende-Robb regarding the 2012 Africa Progress Report launch and inclusive growth in Africa.
April 20th
Caroline Kend-Robb on why the 2015 MDG targets are so crucial to Africa.
April 10th
Guardian UK article looks at the growing diversity of Africa's exports and destination markets.
April 10th
Listen to APP Executive Director, Caroline Kende Robb, on the BBC World Service programme, In the Balance, speaking about Africa's significant investment potential in the face of economic stagnation in many regions of the world.
L’Africa Progress Panel est heureux d’annoncer que Mme Caroline Kende-Robb est la nouvelle directrice générale de l’organisation. Caroline a rejoint l’APP après la Banque mondiale, où depuis 2005 elle travaillait comme senior manager dans le domaine du dé...
September 26th
L'Africa Progress Panel annonce, ce jeudi 15 septembre 2011, par le biais de ce communiqué de presse, que Mme Caroline Kende-Robb est la nouvelle directrice générale de l’organisation.
September 26th
A highlight of the event was provided by Sir Bob Geldof, Africa Progress Panel member and founder of the 8 Mile Fund, who eloquently described why his strong and considered message to global influencers is investment rather than aid for Africa, and why it...
July 11th
"As many African countries, Ghana is taking steps in the right direction but still faces important challenges in terms of implementing the right policy environment to enable positive action aimed at creating equal opportunities for women," Carolina Rodrig...
June 8th
The Africa Progress Panel (APP), a group of leaders that monitors and promotes mutual accountability for progress in the continent, has welcomed this year’s G8 focus on Africa at the just-ended Deauville Summit. In a statement, made available to PANA here...
June 8th
L’Africa Progress Panel rassemble, sous la présidence de Kofi Annan, un groupe unique de personnalités dont le rôle est d’évaluer et de promouvoir la notion de partage des responsabilités pour le progrès en Afrique dans trois domaines-clés d’action: la go...
June 8th
’ancien Secrétaire général de l’Organisation des Nations unies (ONU), Kofi Annan, a invité le secteur privé africain à prendre des mesures pour encourager l’adoption de "modèles innovants" afin de tirer profit d’"appuis considérables" aux efforts de dével...
June 8th
Europe must open up its markets to North African goods to help nations in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, African Development Bank president Donald Kaberuka told Emerging Markets. His comments come a week after the Africa Progress Panel, a panel of expe...
May 25th
Vous vous souvenez peut-être... Il y a cinq ans, lors d'un sommet du G8 à Gleneagles en Ecosse, les grands de ce monde (Tony Blair, George Bush, Jacques Chirac...) avaient promis de débloquer 25 milliards de dollars pour l'Afrique d'ici 2010.
May 25th
La dernière étude quantitative et qualitative du cabinet Ernest & Young, dévoilée le 6 mai à l’ouverture de la 21ème édition du Forum économique mondial à Cape Town, a donné le ton d’une rencontre globalement optimiste sur l’Afrique. L’étude s’accompagne ...
May 25th
President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday offered a panacea for the problem of sit-tight leaders in Africa, saying amnesty for their mistakes while in office will help resolve the problem.
May 25th
The Nigerian government’s classification of the country’s economy as one of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world is based on faulty premises, former president, Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said in South Africa.
May 25th
CAPE TOWN - “There’s life after State House”, former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has advised African leaders who are clinging on to power when their time is clearly over. He was one of several leaders who have recommended that long-term leader...
May 25th
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised sit-tight leaders across Africa that time is running out and should take a cue and bow out peacefully.
May 25th
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said the responsibility of delivering good governance and quality development in Africa lies squarely on the shoulders of leaders on the continent who, he said, must be held responsible for every failure to d...
May 25th
When Botswana achieved independence in 1966, it was one of Africa's poorest countries, with hardly any tarred road, few schools or hospitals and only a handful of university graduates.
May 25th
When Botswana achieved independence in 1966, it was one of Africa's poorest countries with hardly any tarred road, few schools or hospitals and only a handful of university graduates. Today the country has a national digital telephone network, and univers...
May 25th
Cape Town - The International Criminal Court (ICC), at the Hague was not set up to target Africans only but rather to work to prevent impunity in the continent, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has said.
May 25th
We are witnessing a historic change to the development paradigm. Drastic spending cuts in the United States, uncertainty around Europe's common currency and the consequences of the earthquake in Japan are reordering international priorities and put furthe...
May 25th
Le progrès en Afrique se mesure aux améliorations tangibles qu’il apporte aux populations et pas uniquement à des chiffres de PIB, de croissance des échanges ou d’investissements directs à l’étranger. C’est en substance la conclusion du Rapport 2011 sur l...
May 25th
Afrique : croissance encore « trop faible » pour réduire la pauvreté, selon un rapport
Ouestafnews- La reprise économique en Afrique reste marquée par une croissance encore trop faible pour sortir les populations locales de la pauvreté et marquée notamme...
May 25th
L'Africa Progress Panel rassemble, sous la présidence de Kofi Annan, un groupe de personnalités dont le rôle est d'évaluer et de promouvoir la notion de partage des responsabilités pour le progrès en Afrique dans trois domaines-clés d'action : la gouverna...
May 25th
The Africa Progress Report 2011 reviews the continent’s progress over the past year and looks at the year ahead to identify key trends, opportunities and obstacles. The report focuses heavily on the transformative power of partnerships to drive sustained ...
May 25th
African economies are among the world's fastest-growing but leaps in output have not been a silver bullet for better living standards, delegates at the World Economic Forum said Thursday.
May 23rd
MANY participants in the 21st World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa held in Cape Town, South Africa last week, say that the event was a big success.
May 23rd
The International Monetary Fund published its global economic forecasts Monday. It said the global economy is firmly on the mend this year but challenges are on the rise, particularly from surging oil prices.
May 23rd
African leaders must convert the fast-paced economic growth registered over the past years into better living standards for their people, activist Graca Machel told delegates at the World Economic Forum on Africa last week.
May 23rd
Cape Town, South Africa — ZIMBABWE and the rest of the African continent will need to actively pursue partnerships with various stakeholders to achieve sustainable economic growth, chairman of the Africa Progress Panel and former United Nations Secretary-...
May 23rd
One of the main conclusions of the 2011 edition of the Africa Progress Report is that forging solid partnerships between governments, the private sector, development partners such as donor countries, and civil society is crucial to trigger robust and sust...
May 23rd
There was a flutter of excitement among Africa’s chattering classes this month when a new study concluded that 34 per cent of Africans can be described as middle-class consumers
May 23rd
APA-Cape Town, (South Africa) Africa’s economic recovery is strong but characterised by ‘low quality’ growth, according to a new report from the Africa Progress Panel being launched at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa Thursday...
May 23rd
Africa has little room to change the one-dimensional nature of its trade ties and use its new-found growth to create jobs and alleviate poverty, according to the 2011 Africa Progress Report released on Thursday.
May 20th
Former United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan on Thursday said that Africa’s economic recovery is strong, but is characterised by low-quality growth.
May 20th
CAPE TOWN – Africa needs strong leadership to harness the region’s economic growth to benefit the people of the world’s poorest continent, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said yesterday.