March 9
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Africa: Top Aid Donors Score Badly in Responding to Crises
Aid donors have failed to address long-standing systematic problems in how they respond to disasters and emergencies, despite numerous commitments to reform the international... Read more »
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Africa: World Bank Must Re-evaluate its Strategies to Cut Maternal Mortality
Every minute of every day, one woman dies somewhere in the world due to preventable complications in pregnancy or childbirth. That's a total of 1,000 women dying each day, or... Read more »
March 6
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Africa: How Governments Allow Farmers to Be Pushed Off Their Land [analysis]
There is rarely anything illegal about African governments selling off large chunks of land to local or international investors. Frankly, investors wouldn't get involved if... Read more »
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Somalia: Somaliland - Open for Business
Amid the war-ravaged landscape of Somalia, the self-declared independent state of Somaliland has carved out a reputation for relative calm. Read more »
February 28
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Africa: Make Children the Cornerstone of Urban Decision-Making, Urges Unicef
Unicef has urged governments to put children at the heart of urban planning - and to improve services for all - since the majority of the world's children will grow up in towns or... Read more »
February 17
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Malawi: Bingu Condemns Mugabe Comparison
At a time when democracy is gaining footholds in Africa with more elections and fewer dictatorships, Bingu wa Mutharika is accused of riding a counter-current: the return of the... Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: The Silent Cost of Child Malnutrition
Just as I was about to leave for the day, Steve, one of the nurses, asked me if I could see this one case before going. Beatrice (not her real name) was two years and seven months... Read more »
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Africa: Poor Diet Kills 2.6 Million Infants a Year - Survey
Malnutrition is the root cause of the deaths of 2.6 million children each year, and the bodies and brains of 450 million more will fail to develop properly due to inadequate diet... Read more »
February 10
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Liberia: Country's Battle to Put the Lights Back On
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has set ambitious targets to restore the country's electricity supply. But will it meet them by 2015? Read more »
February 9
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Africa: USAID Relaxes Rules on Buying Goods from Poor Countries
The US agency for international development, USAid, will no longer have to "buy American", thanks to a policy change that will open up the agency's contracts to firms in developing... Read more »
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Africa: Highest-Ever Levels of Multi-Drug-Resistant TB Revealed
Hot on the heels of a major study showing malaria deaths are twice what everybody thought comes a WHO study showing the highest levels yet of drug-resistant TB Read more »
February 6
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Africa: Famine Isn't an Extreme Event, It's the Predictable Result of a Broken System [analysis]
From the Horn of Africa to the Sahel, we must learn to be honest about the nature of a fundamentally flawed global food system Read more »
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Africa: A Free-Thinking UN Would Spice Up Sustainable Development's Bland Dish [analysis]
The UN's new sustainable development report fails to deliver on the big questions. Would greater intellectual liberation help? Read more »
February 3
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Africa: Malaria Kills Twice As Many People As Previously Thought, Research Finds
Malaria kills twice as many people every year as formerly believed, taking 1.2 million lives and causing the deaths not only of babies but also older children and adults, according... Read more »
January 18
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West Africa: Will West Act Over Their Corruption? [analysis]
It's the turn of the developing world to watch how the west handles fraud and corruption at the highest levels. Read more »
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West Africa: Sahel's Looming Food Crisis Gets Swift Response but No Long-Term Answers
Governments in the Sahel and international relief agencies have been quick off the mark in acknowledging a looming food crisis. Read more »
January 10
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Swaziland: Coke Accused of Propping Up Autocratic Rule
The multibillion dollar beverage company owns a concentrate-manufacturing plant in Swaziland, an impoverished kingdom ruled by Africa's last absolute monarch, Mswati III. Read more »
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Africa: New Food and Agriculture Organisation Chief to Prioritise Continent
The new director general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the world's flagship agency for food policy, has indicated that Africa will be his priority at a time of... Read more »
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Ethiopia: Country's Partnership With China
China sees Ethiopia as a land of business opportunities, but the African country remains in charge of any deals. Read more »
December 30, 2011
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Ethiopia: Country Invests in Farmers to Achieve Middle-Income Ambitions
Fields of red sorghum in terraced fields that stretch into the distance are a common sight in the scenic mountains of eastern Ethiopia, giving a misleading impression of bountiful... Read more »
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Africa: Burgeoning Middle Class Brings Hope
At the end of another of Kinshasa's potholed roads, lined with shacks and crumbling matchbox houses, comes a sudden clearing. It is a sandy patch of land surrounded by water in... Read more »
December 23, 2011
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Africa: Continent's Year of Living Dangerously [analysis]
During 2011, a series of external and internal shocks threatened sub-Saharan Africa's hard-won economic gains of the past decade, not to mention its recovery from the global... Read more »
December 22, 2011
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Africa: The Speculative Scrum Driving Up Food Prices [analysis]
Last year, the price of global food floated high as ever. That's bad news for most of us, but not for those who trade commodities. In fact, 2011 was a great year for the traders,... Read more »
October 7, 2011
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Africa: Continent Looks to Learn From East Asia's Development Experiences [opinion]
The idea that countries might want to learn from each other's broad development experiences strikes a lot of people as problematic - or even quite odd. It certainly goes against... Read more »
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Africa: Food Shortages Have Stunted 178 Million Children Under-Five, Report Says
Every year about 3 million children die before they reach the age of five as a result of undernutrition, with the majority of deaths the result of long-term chronic hunger rather... Read more »
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