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Pregnant with Possibility
22 Jul 2010Maternal mortality rates on the continent are among the highest in the world. And progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goal of drastically reducing these deaths has been abysmally slow,...
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Sahel: surviving the lean season
Mother feeds her child in Niger: Across the country, and in other parts of the Sahel as well,...
Africa fights the ‘people trade’
A young girl from Benin City in Nigeria’s southern Edo State, where the vast majority of Nigerian...
Relief efforts gear up for Zimbabwe
Collecting food rations from a UN warehouse in Zimbabwe: Another year of serious food insecurity...
Enlisting men for women’s equality
South African civil society groups are seeking to change men’s attitudes towards women, and to...
Bringing water to Africa’s poor
Fetching water from a river in Madagascar: Most Africans still do not have access to clean...
Pact to end use of children in war
Photograph: Reuters / Jacky Naegelen Governments and armed groups that recruit children into...
Africa In Brief
15 Apr 2007Education key to women’s progress Marking this year’s International Women’s Day, 8 March, the UN...
New global anti-AIDS campaign kicks off
Towards prevention, care and treatment for all by 2010
Seeking peace with justice in Uganda
International charges filed against northern rebel leaders
‘Children just do not have to die’
Simple, cheap interventions can reduce African mortality rates
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