Guardian Global Development Network (London)

August 24

Senegal: Progress on Gender Equality - But Not Everyone's Happy [analysis]

In March, Senegal came of age as a democracy. After 12 years in office, the country's 86-year-old president, Abdoulaye Wade, ceded electoral defeat to his popular rival Macky Sall.... Read more »

Africa: Helping Continent Manufacture Its Own Disaster Relief Supplies [analysis]

David Dickie set up Advance Aid when he questioned the sense in flying supplies for people affected by Africa's humanitarian crises from China, say, when they could be made on home... Read more »
Malawi: Country's Food Safety Threatened by Contaminated Groundnuts [analysis]

Fair trade NGO Twin is calling for urgent action after revealing 60% of groundnuts are not tested for potentially lethal aflatoxins Read more »
Kenya: Kenyans Shame Dangerous Drivers on Twitter as MPs Debate Rules for Roads [analysis]

Nairobi considers traffic bill to introduce stiff penalties for dangerous driving as motorists face being outed by social media Read more »

Africa: We Are Teetering on the Brink of Another Global Food Crisis [opinion]

At the start of July, a record global harvest was predicted. Yet just a few weeks later, prices for maize and soybeans broke the record levels of the 2007-08 food crisis, when food... Read more »
Mozambique: Nation's Agricultural Fortunes Rest on a Choice Between Obama and Annan [analysis]

Mozambique is a development paradox. Rural poverty is increasing despite high growth rates and billions of dollars in aid. Now the country has been targeted by two contrasting... Read more »
Somalia: Berbera Port and Pastoralism Prove Livestock's Worth in Somaliland

With its stretches of wasteland covered with rubbish and dotted with rubble and ruined buildings, its scruffy vendors' shacks and broiling heat, the coastal town of Berbera is no... Read more »

Swaziland: EU Sugar Aid for Nation Leaves a Bitter Taste

Under the aid for trade initiative that came out of the World Trade Organisation in 2005, rich countries agreed to provide money for developing countries to help them adapt to... Read more »
Africa: Hunger Is Most Urgent Threat to Children Worldwide, Report Reveals

For the first time in a decade, the number of children suffering from hunger and malnutrition has risen, threatening the substantial progress made in child health and education in... Read more »

Africa: Anti-Prostitution Pledge in U.S. Aids Funding 'Damaging' HIV Response

Aids activists gathering in Washington DC and Kolkata, India, this week have denounced conditions attached to US global Aids funding, which they say have damaged the response to... Read more »
Ghana: Will Ghana's Success Story Continue After John Atta Mills?

The death of President John Atta Mills has sparked not only an outpouring of grief in Ghana, but renewed doubts about December's parliamentary and presidential elections, when two... Read more »
Somalia: Somaliland Moves Towards New Banking Era

Without formal banks, Somaliland lacks cash machines or credit card facilities, obliging visitors to the country to bring in wads of dollars. But that is about to change as the... Read more »

Kenya: IT Entrepreneurs Find Surprise Success in Dadaab Refugee Camps

Two decades on, Dadaab is home to many resourceful refugees who feel unable to return to Somalia Read more »
West Africa: Mali Refugees Struggle to Settle in Burkina Faso as Food Crisis Deepens

Tuaregs fleeing conflict have put their own stamp on Mentao camp but adapting to refugee life is least of their problems Read more »
Ghana: What's Life Like at the Millennium Village Project?

Six years into the MVP, improvements for residents in Ghana's Bonsaaso village are being put at risk by gold mining Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Measles Vaccines by Motorbike Help Congolese Children

Operation Easy Rider helped deliver vaccines to children in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Read more »
Africa: Do Aid Campaigns Alienate the Public and Skew the Development Debate?

A new report on attitudes to aid throws down a challenge to policymakers and campaigners in the way they communicate with the public on international development. Read more »
Africa: Dambisa Moyo - 'The World Will Be Drawn Into a War for Resources'

The controversial writer and economist on why she believes the economic rise of China, combined with the west's complacency, leaves us facing a future of terrifying global... Read more »

Africa: Sam Dryden - the Most Powerful Figure in the Global South's Agriculture?

The Gates Foundation's head of agriculture has attracted criticism for his involvement with global agribusiness, but he insists his aim is to improve life for the world's poorest... Read more »

Africa: UN Unveils Human Sustainability Index at Rio+20

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has unveiled its "conceptual framework" for a human sustainability index that would recognise rates of human development while also weighing up... Read more »
Somalia: Progress Overlooks Mogadishu's Vulnerable

At Mogadishu's port, battered trucks without headlights and windscreens are piled with sacks and tyres, and parked beside a ship from the Comoros islands. Workers clamber on to... Read more »
Africa: Rio+20 Delivers 'New Definition of Hypicrisy' - NGOs

World leaders at the Rio+20 Earth summit in Brazil delivered a "new definition of hypocrisy" for standing in the way of progress and failing so far to challenge the text of the... Read more »
Africa: Africa Must Turn Its Health Research Into Treatments for African People

Africa is home to some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, yet the health and living situation for many on the continent remains dire. In 2010, 7.6 million children... Read more »

Africa: Is the World Bank Under Jim Yong Kim Calling Time On Privatisation? [analysis]

The appointment of Jim Yong Kim to the presidency of the World Bank is a signal that the development institution is changing, but it is by no means the first sign. In spring 2010,... Read more »

Africa: Aid Still Matters Once Growth Begins

It is easy to assume that economic growth automatically implies reduced aid dependency, but by doing so we are failing to understand the role aid plays in different contexts. Read more »

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