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March 2015 ISSUE N° 417 WWW.ICPUBLICATIONS.COM
16 COVER STORY Health: The Cure
4 BRIEFS
16 COVER STORY HEALTH: THE CURE 26 A ‘good crisis’? 31 INFRASTRUCTURE Early stage risk casts shadow over solar 34 Saving the Kariba dam
38 COMMODITIES Middlemen move out of the shadows
42 MINING Taxing times for African mining 46 AGRICULTURE Cooperation key to Indian Ocean prosperity 48 Taking pressure off Africa’s oceans
50 MEDIA The reputation game
52 TECHNOLOGY Facebook sparks net neutrality battle 56 The micro-industrial revolution
58 SECTOR FOCUS Nigeria oil industry goes into survival mode
67 CAPITAL Banks prepare for capital markets surge 70 Oil price weighs on M&A deals
COUNTRYFILES 73 Nigeria: Democracy delayed 76 Malawi: Floods hit Malawi’s recovery 78 Ethiopia: Coffee smallholders seek global markets 80 South Africa: Winemakers’ silver standard targets imitators 82 Mauritius: Boosting its maritime economy
85 CULTURE African art breaks out online 87 EmpireofCotton
88 TRAVEL Destination Guide: Maputo
90 ENDNOTE Curries, cakes but no cash
