Abel Akara Ticha

Lake Chad Basin: Going Beyond Military and Shortermist Development Diplomacy to Fix Water-Livelihood Stress

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A POLICY BRIEF by Abel Akara Ticha This policy brief first appeared on impactnews-wire.com and kapitalafrik.com on 24 April 2022 Executive Summary To achieve lasting solutions to the Lake Chad Basin (LCB) water and security crisis, it is not enough to proffer diplomatic and military solutions sprinkled with palliative development support to the millions of … Read more

Copy, tweak and paste: How Central African Economies can benefit from elsewhere experiences to build skills for economic diversification

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STEM education photo, talking development

By Abel Akara Ticha

  1. INTRODUCTION

Inadequate skills development and low productivity are hobbling the competitive edge and economic diversification potential of Central African countries. However, if they draw inspiration from the recent steps taken by Ethiopia to foster education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEMs) , and learn from the track record of countries such as Japan and South Africa, among others, then the sub-region can also promote a skills revolution in the training and deployment of human resources to respond better to the challenges and opportunities for economic diversification in Central Africa.

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4 key reasons why Africa must embrace 5G now

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Woman with VR Goggles

By Abel Akara Ticha

No need for the chicken-and-egg debate about which should come first at the moment in Africa: basic infrastructure/amenities or the deployment of 5G broadband. Africa already has general sustainable development issues to grapple with, but the 5G promises to become the eye of the digital economy whirlwind which will pepper-up multiple sectors for sustainable development on the continent.

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Why Central African countries must put natural capital accounting at the centre of their development

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Image of Central African forest for Natural capital accounting-talking international development

By Nadia Ouedraogo, Issoufou Seidou, Abel Akara Ticha and Antonio Pedro*

The paradox of Central Africa is that it constellates countries extremely rich in natural resources needed for global development, yet these countries cannot finance their development agendas without recourse to expensive loans and aid with attached strings. The situation becomes dire when faced with externalities such as plummeting commodity prices or a pandemic such as COVID-19. But this ought never to be so!

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