The UN has launched a global campaign to end statelessness within ten years. I confidently predict that the result of this campaign will be to ''increase'' statelessness by many ... Read more »
Scidev.net talks to Faith Osier, an award-winning scientist, about her team's work on child and adult immunity to malaria and how it can aid vaccine development. Read more »
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is impairing the ability of governments to raise revenues, increasing their exposure to domestic and foreign debts and may make them more ... Read more »
Development sector debates need to move away from a focus on simply getting disabled children into school, an expert says. Read more »
Fifty years ago, on 4 November 1964, Ministers from 23 then independent African States convened in Lagos, Nigeria, for the inaugural meeting of the Board of Governors of the ... Read more »
Dr. Ola Orekunrin critiques the "Sugar Daddy" relationship between African countries and the West, calling for a relationship made up of equals instead. She is part of the ... Read more »
Today, there are 16 billionaires in sub-Saharan Africa, alongside the 358 million people living in extreme poverty. Read more »
Samsung Electronics has changed the face of education across the African continent. Setting up the first solar powered Internet school and upgrading libraries to e-libraries, the ... Read more »
It is now three decades since Ethiopia experienced the infamous famine that cost the lives of more than a million people. The tragedy prompted the BBC's Michael Buerk to describe ... Read more »
Creative ways to engage, empower, and benefit both women and men at every stage need to be built into development research initiatives, say the IDRC and Canada's department of ... Read more »
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