AfricaFocus Bulletin
Recent Commentaries by AfricaFocus Editor
(New in 2019)
August 12, 2019 Africa/Global: Tax Avoidance 101
Aircastle Ltd., a Connecticut-based global company specialized in
leasing airplanes, is not alone among large American companies
lowering their taxes through creative accounting, which also
include well-known giants such as Amazon and Apple.
But the recent revelations on Aircastle´s use of Mauritius as a
tax haven provide a helpful window into how such tax dodges can
make use of off-shore companies set up primarily for that purpose.
August 12, 2019 Africa/Global: #MauritiusLeaks Reveals Tax Dodges
“Based on a cache of 200,000 confidential records from the
Mauritius office of the Bermuda-based offshore law firm Conyers
Dill & Pearman, the investigation reveals how a sophisticated
financial system based on the island is designed to divert tax
revenue from poor nations back to the coffers of Western
corporations and African oligarchs, with Mauritius getting a share.
The files date from the early 1990s to 2017.” - International
Consortium of Investigative Journalists
July 29, 2019 Africa/Global: Agribusiness vs. Agroecology
“It is not surprising, of course, that those with financial
interests in the current input-intensive systems are responding to
growing calls for agroecology with attacks on its efficacy as a
systematic approach that can sustainably feed a growing population.
What is surprising is that such responses are so ill-informed about
the scientific innovations agroecology offers to small-scale
farmers who are being so poorly served by ´green revolution´ approaches.” - Timothy A. Wise
July 15, 2019 Africa/Global: New Horizon for Off-Grid Solar
With their most dramatic success in Kenya and other East African
countries, off-grid solar home systems are expanding rapidly,
reaching more consumers and extending beyond basic lighting and
mobile-phone charging, now even offering bundles with solar-powered
flat-screen televisions. Costs continue to drop precipitously, and,
according to
Beyond Fire, a new report released at the end of May, the next
new horizon may be in the kitchen, with solar-energy-powered
cooking.
July 2, 2019 Kenya/Global: Big Victory for #SaveLamu/#deCOALonize
“On Wednesday 26th June, Kenya’s National Environment Tribunal
(NET) made a landmark ruling that set aside the license granted to
Amu Power Company Ltd by the National Environment Management
Authority (NEMA) to construct a 1050MW coal plant in Lamu. The
tribunal noted that … there was no evidence that Amu Power properly
informed residents of Lamu of the impacts that the coal plant
project would have on their environment, livelihood or health.” -
#deCOALonize press release, June 29, 2019
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AfricaFocus Archive:
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June 19, 2019
AfricaFocus Updates: Sudan, Ebola, Mozambique
May 27, 2019
Africa/Global: World Bank Ramps Up Attack on Small Farmers
May 13, 2019
Africa/Global: Cutting the Costs on Remittances
April 30, 2019
Africa/Global: Fighting Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance
April 15, 2019
Africa/Global: Ebola Resurgence Tests Global Response
April 9, 2019
South Africa: Politicians Scapegoating Immigrants
April 9, 2019
Africa: Migration within the Continent
March 22, 2019
Southern Africa/Global: Cyclone Idai and Climate Justice
March 11, 2019
Sudan: Just Fall, That is All!
February 26, 2019
USA/Africa: From Wakanda to Reparations, Part 2
February 26, 2019
USA/Africa: From Wakanda to Reparations, Part 1
February 11, 2019
Nigeria: Many Candidates, Few Alternatives
January 30, 2019
USA/Africa: Paradigms of Foreign Intervention
January 30, 2019
USA/Africa: China, Bolton, and Jimmy Carter
January 22, 2019
Zimbabwe: Repression & Dreams Deferred, Again
January 8, 2019
Mozambique/Global: Who Pays for Transnational Corruption?
December 10, 2018
Africa/Global: Green New Deal Could Be Game-Changer
November 12, 2018
Africa: Africa Mining Vision
November 12, 2018
Africa: Why Mining is Hard to Tax
October 16, 2018
Africa/Global: Drug Company Profits vs. Public Health
October 1, 2018
Africa/Global: Professionals Enabling Corruption
September 17, 2018
Uganda: Time for the Youth
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