Remittance rip-offs
22 April 2014 Politics and Economics
All over the world migrant workers are sending money home to their families...
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Breaking the cycle of youth unemployment, poverty
10 February 2014 Human Rights
Youth unemployment and underemployment are among the main barriers to development in West Africa, say experts...
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Helping Africa’s urban poor gain from modernization
4 February 2014 Human Rights
Plans to reshape and modernize African cities, in part driven by investment, architecture and construction companies seeking new markets, could dee...
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Life-saving hepatitis C drug approved, but cost is high
23 December 2013 Health
Following approvals in the US and Europe this month of a new drug to treat hepatitis C, activists are pushing for the medication to be made availab...
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Is Africa ready for GM?
27 November 2013 Food
Even as food insecurity continues to afflict impoverished and disaster-affected populations around the continent, African policymakers and consumer...
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Senegal on the frontline of the battle with Big Tobacco
19 November 2013 Health
Djité Sekou, 32, smokes as he passes his nights guarding one of the many high-rise apartment buildings in Dakar, Senegal...
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Behind China’s aid structure
17 September 2013 Aid and Policy
China’s role as an aid donor has been met with wariness, both from aid experts and recipients...
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Untangling China's aid to Africa
17 September 2013 Aid and Policy
This year, the two most powerful men on the globe, presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, both embarked on Africa tours, pledging to increase aid ...
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Rethinking mental health in Africa
2 September 2013 Health
As African countries strive to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and plot a new development agenda thereafter, health experts...
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African governments still underfunding health
23 July 2013 Health
Twelve years after African governments pledged in the Abuja Declarati...
