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Africa: How Will Young Sex Workers Benefit From New Development Goals?
Key Correspondents, 23 September 2015
As world leaders adopt new sustainable development goals this week, whether young marginalised people will really benefit from the gender equality and health goals remains to be… Read more »
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Africa: Hot Air or Real Hope? the Radical Potential of the SDGs
African Arguments, 22 September 2015
Putting aside the goals and targets, the wider politics of the Sustainable Development Goals might just about create some space for genuine transformation. Read more »
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Africa: New Development Goals On Health Need More Work to Be Realistic
The Conversation Africa, 21 September 2015
The next chapter of the global development agenda - the sustainable development goals - will shift the global focus and debate around health systems. Read more »
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Africa: What If Everything the SDGs Are Premised On Is Just Wrong?
African Arguments, 23 September 2015
Since 1990, global GDP has grown 271%. At the same time, the number of people living on less than $5/day and people going hungry have also increased. Read more »
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Liberia: UN Launches Sustainable Development Goals Today
Liberian Observer, 25 September 2015
After a decade of dramatic global health and economic advances, world leaders, led by the United Nations (UN) are today, September 25, set to adopt a new sweeping global… Read more »
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Africa: Take a Look-New UN Global Goals to Tackle Poverty, Hunger, Climate Change
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 23 September 2015
World leaders are set to adopt an ambitious global action plan for ending poverty, hunger and inequality at a United Nations summit this week. Read more »
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Africa: Social Scientists Urged to Help with Development Goals
SciDev.Net, 22 September 2015
Policymakers and social scientists must team up to help achieve the global development agenda and help measure progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a meeting… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: SDGs, Gender and the Goal of Water for All
The Herald, 24 September 2015
This is one of a series of articles analysing progress on gender equality and women's empowerment 15 years post the adoption of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and ahead of… Read more »
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East Africa: Reduced Spending On Social Protection Undermines Poverty Eradication Efforts
East African, 24 September 2015
East African countries are not spending enough on social protection forcing the region's poor to remain outside the social safety net system, which in turn undermines efforts to… Read more »
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Nigeria: Ban Urges World Leaders to Act Toward Better Future for Youths
Leadership, 24 September 2015
The UN Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-Moon, has urged global leaders to act with ambition and commitment on the UN's journey toward a better future for young people for prosperity… Read more »
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Nigeria: Five Pitfalls Nigeria Must Avoid in Implementing SDGs
Daily Trust, 24 September 2015
This weekend at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the world is set to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as another 15-year successor agenda to the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Saraki Calls for Financial Empowerment for Women in SDGs
Daily Trust, 24 September 2015
Wellbeing Foundation Africa says the United Nations General Assembly where leaders will consider sustainable development goals should make financial empowerment of women a… Read more »
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Africa: Four Billion People Globally Still Lack Internet Access
CIO, 24 September 2015
About four billion people globally remain offline and unable to take advantage of the enormous economic and social benefits the Internet can offer, according to the 2015 edition of… Read more »
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Botswana: From MDGs to SDGs - Botswana Can Lead Again
Botswana Daily News, 24 September 2015
Across the globe, world leaders including Botswana's Vice President, Mr Mokgweetsi Masisi and foreign affairs minister, Dr Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, are getting ready to adopt the… Read more »
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Namibia: Sustainable Development Goals Need Innovative Financing
Namibian, 25 September 2015
WORLD leaders will meet this weekend in New York to agree on global targets to improve the lives of people in all countries. Read more »
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Kenya: Kenya's Proud Moment As Nations Adopt SDGs
Capital FM, 25 September 2015
Friday marks a significant milestone for Kenya, when nations across the world adopt the Social Development Goals (SDGs) which the country helped formulate. Read more »
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Africa: UNDP Welcomes Adoption of Sustainable Development Goals By World Leaders
UNDP, 24 September 2015
As the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit kicks off Friday, more than 150 world leaders are poised to adopt the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including… Read more »
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Africa: The Private Sector and the Sustainable Development Goals
IDS, 24 September 2015
This weekend the UN General Assembly will ratify the adoption of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will represent the objectives of the international community for… Read more »
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Rwanda: We Have Learned Lessons From MDGs - Kagame
New Times, 25 September 2015
President Paul Kagame has said that the world has learned valuable lessons from the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were set in 2000 and are due to… Read more »
Countries Adopt Sustainable Development Goals at UN
Global leaders are meeting to adopt the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that sets the agenda until 2030. These goals replace the Millennium Development Goals and its commitment period that ends in 2015.
InFocus
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Malaria death rates have plunged by 60 per cent since 2000 - a remarkable achievement - those malaria infects and kills are mostly children and mostly African, 80 per cent in just ... Read more »
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To achieve the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, designed to replace the Millennium Development Goals, the IMF, along with many others in the global community, ... Read more »
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Since 2000, Ethiopia has been doing something right in early childhood nutrition, says Amerti Lemma of Save the Children. Read more »
