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Does financing benefit African women?

6 Sep 2012

Few women in Africa work in regular, formal sector jobs, and even those generally earn too little to escape from poverty.Photograph: Panos / Sven Torfinn

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Africa seeks to tap its diaspora

Obiagali Ezekwesili, the World Bank’s vice president for Africa
18 Jan 2012

“It is important to look strategically at the diaspora’s role in African development,” Obiagali...

Darfur: another tough job for Ibrahim Gambari

Ibrahim Gambari, head of the Darfur peacekeeping mission
18 Jan 2012

When veteran United Nations trouble-shooter Ibrahim Gambari was named head of the joint African...

Least developed countries at a ‘turning point,’ says the UN’s Cheick Sidi Diarra

Under-Secretary-General Cheick Sidi Diarra
17 Jan 2012

Under-Secretary-General Cheick Sidi Diarra: Despite advances, LDCs still need “structural...

AIDS breakthrough threatened by budget woes

15 Aug 2011

New discovery brings hope, but will the funds be there?

Peace in Sierra Leone, a project under construction

15 Aug 2011

UN seeks to coordinate support for post-war development

Climate talks: A faint ray of sunshine in Cancun

15 Apr 2011

Collecting water in the drought-prone Moyale region along the Ethiopia-Kenya border. African...

Darfur: an experiment in African peacekeeping

15 Dec 2010

UNAMID officer from Nigeria looks over a student's school work at a North Darfur camp for...

Anchor the MDGs to economic progress, Africans say

15 Dec 2010

Bean packing enterprise in Ethiopia: Although more African countries have been registering...

Stakes high in vote on Sudan's south

15 Dec 2010

UN helicopter delivers voter registration materials to Torit, in southern Sudan, in advance of the...

On the record with Hugh Masekela

Hugh Masekela, legendary South African trumpet player
4 Sep 2010

A South African jazz icon talks about the Millennium Development Goals, Nelson Mandela and his...