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- Analysis
- Aid and Policy
- 17 September 2013
Behind China’s aid structure

China’s role as an aid donor has been met with wariness, both from aid experts and recipients. Confusion over the nature of China’s aid arises...
- News
- Health
- 2 September 2013
Rethinking mental health in Africa

As African countries strive to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and plot a new development agenda thereafter, health experts are gathering...
- News
- Health
- 23 July 2013
African governments underfunding health

Twelve years after African governments pledged in the Abuja Declaration to allocate at least 15 percent of their annual budgets to healthcare by 2015, just...
- Analysis
- Food
- 8 July 2013
Countering Africa’s green revolution

Civil society groups are taking on the policies of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), which promotes the use of genetically modified...
- Analysis
- Politics and Economics
- 28 May 2013
Digital jobs for Africa’s youth

Although Africa’s economy has expanded rapidly in recent years, it has not kept pace with the growth of its youth population or their need for...
- Analysis
- Migration
- 27 February 2013
Africa's high remittance costs

New data from the World Bank has revealed that African migrants pay more to send money home to their families than any other migrant group...
- News
- Food
- 18 January 2013
Staple crops key to aiding Africa’s poor

Africa could reduce its poverty levels faster by focusing more on the production of staples rather than export crops, according to a study by the...
- News
- Politics and Economics
- 10 December 2012
Defining piracy in the Gulf of Guinea

In July last year President Boni Yayi of Benin sent a worried letter to the UN secretary-general. His country was being threatened by the activities...
- News
- Conflict
- 6 December 2012
African IDP Convention comes into force

The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 2009, also known as the Kampala Convention, came into force on...
- News
- Food
- 19 June 2012
Donor fatigue forces WFP to cut refugee rations

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has halved food rations to refugees living in camps in at least four African countries citing a funding shortfall...
- News
- Human Rights
- 31 May 2012
Moving out of the shadows

When night falls in the Dadaab refugee complex in eastern Kenya, nearly half a million refugees are plunged into darkness. The lack of light robs...
- Feature
- Health
- 24 May 2012
Cost of clinical trials worries donors

The more medical successes there are, the more it costs to find the next one, prompting donors to demand more from researchers carrying out large-scale...

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