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Africa: For Fragile States, MDG Summit Outcome Off-Target
IPS, 23 September 2010
Calls by fragile states for greater focus on addressing conflict and fragility have been largely ignored in the outcome document of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit… Read more »
Africa's Regions Produce Mixed Reports on MDGs
Reports on how far Africa is progressing towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals are mixed.
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Madagascar: Govt Bows Out of UN Speaker's Podium
UN News, 23 September 2010
General Assembly President Joseph Deiss today acknowledged Madagascar's commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the African nation announced its decision… Read more »
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East Africa: Tanzania And Burundi Lag Behind As Uganda Advances On MDGs
East African, 20 September 2010
Tanzania and Burundi are lagging behind their fellow East African Community member states in meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Read more »
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Southern Africa: Paying for Social Protection
IPS, 17 September 2010
Despite the Southern Africa region sustaining an annual growth rate of six percent, the U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals will hear that the majority of Southern… Read more »
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Nigeria: 'Country Will Achieve MDGs Target On Child Mortality Reduction'
Leadership, 21 September 2010
Nigeria is reasonably on course to achieve the target of MDGs on reducing child mortality with a fall from 100 per 1,000 to 75 per 1,000 live births between 2003 and 2008" These… Read more »
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South Africa: Mixed Progress on Development Goals
IPS, 17 September 2010
With five years left till the Millennium Development Goals' 2015 deadline, civil society groups say South Africa has made progress on some goals but regressed on others. Read more »
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Mozambique: Govt Hopes to Meet Development Goal on Water Supply
UNIRIN, 21 September 2010
Every day Ster Mamboza, 37, covers 19 km on a bicycle over sand and gravel roads to the well at Machaze, in the southern Mozambican province of Manica, carrying two 20-litre… Read more »
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Ghana: Breakthrough Action Plan Required to Achieve MDGs
Accra Mail, 19 September 2010
The Government of Ghana and other world leaders will converge at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to review the status of the MDGs. The MDGs are the least development… Read more »
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East Africa: Scorecard Out Soon On Region's MDGs Feat
East African, 20 September 2010
The performance of all East African countries will be evaluated in great detail at the UN Summit on Millennium Development Goals, scheduled for September 20 to 22. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Sanctions Hurt MDGs - President
The Herald, 22 September 2010
Zimbabwe's efforts to meet its Millennium Development Goals have been pinned back by the illegal Western sanctions on the country, President Mugabe has said. Read more »
InFocus
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As world leaders prepared for the MDG Summit at the UN, a new body of research examining development progress was published by a British think-tank on international development. Read more »
