Guardian Global Development Network (London)

October 7, 2011

Zimbabwe: Govt to Introduce Cash Transfer Scheme

Zimbabwe has launched a $75m plan to protect orphans and vulnerable children over the next three years. Read more »

Africa: Continent Could Host the World's Most Powerful Telescope

Sitting in a white prefab hut, Lindsay Magnus punches a code into a computer beneath bands of red, green and blue representing the Centaurus A galaxy. Beyond the window, seven... Read more »
Africa: A Fresh Narrative on Aid Dependence [analysis]

ActionAid has published a report celebrating the fact that poor countries are relying less and less on aid. The number of low income countries (LICs) receiving aid equivalent to... Read more »
Somalia: Country Pays the Price for War on Terror [analysis]

In the past three months, 150,000 people have arrived in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya. About 80% of them are women and children and many have walked 100km to reach the... Read more »

Africa: The Worst Country in the World To Be a Sick Child

Chad and Somalia are the riskiest places in the world to fall sick if you are a child. Switzerland and Finland are the safest. That's the conclusion of an index produced by Save... Read more »

Libya: Nation Will Only Become Inclusive When Women are Given a Say in its Future [analysis]

At this week's conference on Libya in Paris, the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) and the international community talk about "inclusiveness" in the new country's future.... Read more »
Africa: Development Summit Chief Focuses on Agriculture [analysis]

The Rio+20 global development summit co-ordinator is pushing for a tight focus on agriculture in an attempt to inject new energy into the landmark event, the Guardian has learned. Read more »

Libya: 'Oil Deals Need to be Transparent' [analysis]

Sitting on Africa's largest oil reserves, one can expect foreign oil companies to be beating a path to its door clamouring for contracts. But campaigners urged the National... Read more »
Somalia: In Somaliland, Less Money Has Brought More Democracy [analysis]

As the humanitarian crisis in southern Somalia threatens millions of lives, Somalia's little-known northern neighbour, Somaliland, is doing so well that its government recently... Read more »
Sierra Leone: Using Technology to Close the Gender Gap

Admire Bio has the reassured presence of a successful businesswoman, with an edge that reveals she is still hungry for more. Bio, 28, a single mother living with her parents, set... Read more »

Sierra Leone: The Women Bringing Solar Power to the Country

A group of 12 women from villages in Sierra Leone is in the frontline of a battle to bring solar-powered electricity to rural communities. No small feat, given that rural Sierra... Read more »
Africa: Climate Change: Learning the Lessons of the Past 50 Years [analysis]

Few would dispute the need to mobilise funds to support developing countries in dealing with the effects of climate change. At last year's UN climate change conference (COP16) in... Read more »
Djibouti: The Forgotten Country in the Horn of Africa Crisis

Perhaps because of its small size, Djibouti has received scant attention in media coverage of the current crisis in the Horn of Africa. Read more »

Africa: Growing Economic Powers Reinvigorate South-South Co-Operation [analysis]

The benefits of south-south co-operation (developing countries sharing resources) are appearing in a fresh light. Emerging economies, notably China and India, are grabbing... Read more »
Africa: Why Digital Privacy and Security are Important for Development [analysis]

Digital technologies, such as mobile phones and the internet, provide the development sector with new opportunities to plan and co-ordinate activities, expose hidden truths, and... Read more »

Africa: New Hope for Malaria

A drug that is regularly given to people in Africa to prevent river blindness appears also to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria, scientists have discovered. Read more »
South Sudan: Nation's Unresolved Issues [analysis]

A senior UN human rights official has warned that full-scale war between north and south Sudan will break out if border clashes escalate. As southern Sudan heads for formal... Read more »

Egypt: One in Ten Citizens Lost Farms Under Mubarak [analysis]

Hernando de Soto's opinion piece in the 3 February Wall Street Journal rightly points out: "Egypt's legal institutions fail the majority of the people. Due to burdensome,... Read more »

Africa: Food Speculation - 'People Die From Hunger While Banks Make a Killing on Food'

Just under three years ago, people in the village of Gumbi in western Malawi went unexpectedly hungry. Not like Europeans do if they miss a meal or two, but that deep, gnawing... Read more »
Africa: Just Building a Million Latrines Won't Solve Sanitation Crisis [analysis]

The deadline for the world to meet its millennium development goals is now only four years away, yet in sub-Saharan Africa, there are still 570 million people without adequate... Read more »
Africa: How can We Feed the World and Still Save the Planet?

Food has become subject to one of the sharpest global debates, with rising anxiety about how the world's growing population is going to feed itself. Increasingly, Olivier de... Read more »

Africa: It's Time to Focus on Poor People - Not Poor Countries [analysis]

One little noticed story of 2010 was that five more developing countries officially lost their "poor" status. Read more »

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