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Inter-African Cooperation
With Libya's help, a new oil pipeline project has been launched to connect Uganda and Rwanda's capitals. Supporters of the project argue that an added benefit of the pipeline is that it will save paved...
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Saharan Solar Plants Could Power All of Europe
A single solar farm in the Sahara desert could provide clean electricity for all of Europe. Scientists are investigating solar farms in the Sahara, as part of a $62 billion plan to provide all green...
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Libya's Border Crisis
This has been reposted from the Mercy Corps blog.On March 1, I entered Libya from Egypt with the Mercy Corps emergency response team. The situation at the border was chaotic. Thousands of foreign...
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Why fingerprint scanners could be the perfect way to distribute oil wealth
Spy movies turn voices into passports, retinas into passwords. And modern fingerprint readers might be on the verge of helping developing nations turn oil revenues into cash transfers.That's what Alan...
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Did global warming kill Gadhafi?
Muammar el-Gadhafi gave Libya's people plenty of reasons to hate him. But it may have taken climate change to do him in.That's the interesting perspective of CSR Talkwire's Francesca Rheannon, who...
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In Tunisia, voting on the future of the Arab Spring
While the world's eyes are fixed on violence in Egypt and Libya, the Arab Spring’s most important step yet will depend not on blood shed, but on votes cast.Tunisia becomes the first country of the Arab...
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A new model for Middle East economic practices starts with Tunisia, Libya
Sitting in cafes all over Tunisia are unemployed youth with college degrees and nothing better to do. Tunisia's recent revolution left it with skyrocketing unemployment and an economic collapse. Libya,...
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Internet inventor: Poor people deserve livelihoods, not websites
Get real: The Internet isn't a human right.That's the message from a man often credited with inventing the Internet, Vint Cerf. Writing in The New York Times yesterday, Cerf, who now works for Google,...
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Turning Arab Spring youth opinions into data - and change
Protesters wave Egypt's flag. Photo: C. Elle (flickr)This story was republished in The Christian Science Monitor.No one needs a report to explain what ‘Arab Spring’ youth continue to demonstrate for:...
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How climate change puts the heat on governments
Incompetent, unjust governance by some of the Middle East’s worst despots brewed a recipe for disaster before the Arab Spring, but it took climate change to turn up the heat. Here's how local droughts,...
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What Arab youth still want: jobs
Arab youth know what caused the uprisings a year ago. What they want to know is how their day-to-day lives will improve once the fanfare of elections subsides. This infographic, created by GOOD and...
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