July 27, 2012
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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 »
July 25, 2012
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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 »
July 24, 2012
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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 »
July 23, 2012
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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 »
July 19, 2012
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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 »
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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 »
July 12, 2012
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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 »
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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 »
July 11, 2012
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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 »
July 06, 2012
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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 »
June 25, 2012
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
June 24, 2012
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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 »
June 22, 2012
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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 »
June 21, 2012
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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 »
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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 »
June 18, 2012
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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 »
May 31, 2012
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Africa: Is the UK Hunger Summit Anything More Than an Olympic PR Exercise? [analysis]
Let's hope the UK's unexpected lead on tackling world hunger is a genuine effort to address the problem of feeding the planet Read more »
May 30, 2012
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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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Africa: Mobile Phone Boom in Developing World Could Boost E-Learning
A study of young people in Ghana, Morocco, Uganda and Maharashtra aims to encourage networks to improve education through mobile technology Read more »
May 17, 2012
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Africa: Sustainable Water, Energy and Land for All?
How do you ensure access to safe water, energy and land in a way that benefits the poorest people on the planet but does not harm the environment? Read more »
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Africa: Builders Must Put People First to Curb Road Death Epidemic
Road crashes are one of the most disturbing global health problems of our time. A staggering 3,500 people die on the roads daily. Worldwide road crashes are now the No 1 cause of... Read more »
April 25, 2012
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Africa: New Chief Trims Global Aids, TB, Malaria Fund
It's been only seven weeks since banker Gabriel Jaramillo took over as general manager of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, but it is already clear the... Read more »
April 20, 2012
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Africa: Global Sanitation Target Under Threat
Clean toilets have an important role in saving lives and boosting economic growth; that will be the message as 60 finance and development ministers gather in Washington on Friday... Read more »
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