Food: Britain to help Africa on supply and nutrition Britain will improve food supply and farming across Africa to help pull 50 million people out of chronic poverty over the next ten years in conjunction with the private sector, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.
African village gets help from Seahouses A SIERRA Leone fishing community has received a new lease of life thanks to a Seahouses church group’s activities for Christian Aid Week.
Obama unveils US Africa food plan US President Barack Obama announces a $3bn (£1.9bn) plan to boost food security in Africa ahead of a G-8 summit near Washington.
Obama's $3bn plan to fight world hunger More than a billion people are at risk of hunger and malnutrition in the developing world: President Obama hopes private investment will help boost agricultural production and improve food security.
African Adolescents Missing Out On Global Health And Education Improvements Although adolescents have benefitted from progress in education and public health over the past two decades, a UNICEF report entitled "Progress for Children" reveals that tens of millions of adolescents are still without education and over 1 million are dying each year. According to the report, the most challenging place for an adolescent to live is in Sub-Saharan Africa. By 2050, it is ...
UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal UN members on Thursday took their first steps in a marathon to negotiate a new global pact by 2015 that for the first time will place rich and poor under a common legal regime to tackle climate change.
Visit to Sierra Leone charity project hailed as an ‘inspiration’ by model Model Tali Lennox has hailed a charity visit to Sierra Leone as an “inspiration”.
Obama's $3 billion boost for Africa President Barack Obama will announce private sector pledges worth $3 billion (£1.9 billion) aimed at alleviating hunger in Africa
South Sudan needs long-term support to build on fragile gains | Kevin Watkins The world's newest nation needs more than humanitarian aid; if UK help is cut, it will mean greater poverty in South Sudan Next time someone tells you aid doesn't work, offer them a trip to the Lora health centre in South Sudan's Central Equatoria province, where I stood a couple of weeks ago watching the life ebb out of Frezer Wano, a five-year-old boy who had arrived in coma caused by malaria ...
Analysis: Post-war Ivory Coast nurtures second "miracle" ABIDJAN (Reuters) - From his lagoon-side allotment in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan, Moussa Yanda has a ringside seat to watch the foundations of a $290-million toll bridge slowly rise up from the shore.
Reaching Millennium Development Goal Requires Coordinated Efforts The Millennium Villages Project was introduced into sub-Saharan African villages in order to co-ordinate improvements amongst multiple sectors, including agriculture, infrastructure, the environment, health, education and business...
G8 summit: The hunger game Leading charities have issued a grim warning to the world's top leaders meeting today for the G8 summit at President Barack Obama's country retreat at Camp David: their failure to keep previous promises is tipping poor countries into famine.
Document: Statement from G8 world leaders The full statement issued by leaders of the Group of Eight leading economies after their summit at Camp David in the US.
IMF chief seeks fresh funds for poor countries WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund on Sunday renewed a push to fully fund a $17 billion (10 billion pounds) lending package for poor countries, which are threatened by high oil prices and the risk of euro-zone contagion. Two days after the IMF secured $430 billion to deal with economic spillovers from Europe's debt crisis, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde ...
Today's top stories Bob Geldof's 1985 Live Aid concert was watched by an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion. Photo: After spending the last five days with Bob Geldof, I feel that I know his opinion about everything.
World Malaria Day: why the need for overseas aid? Malaria kills scores of people every year, despite the efforts of the international development community. But with the UK facing spending cuts, should the government continue to fund such work? Malaria is one of the major causes of death and disease in the world. The life of a child is lost to malaria every 60 seconds and around 216 million people fall seriously ill with it a year, most of them ...
Analysis - Mali - from democracy poster child to broken state BAMAKO (Reuters) - Within weeks, Mali has plunged from being a sovereign democracy to a fractured territory without a state, occupied by competing rebel groups in the north while politicians and coup leaders in the south jostle for control of the capital Bamako. There is no sign the broken nation can be put back together soon - raising concerns among neighbours and Western powers of the ...
UK's ambitious South Sudan aid plan for girls' education takes a hit Britain takes tough line on aid in response to South Sudan shutting down oil production, but US presses ahead with development work and humanitarian aid South Sudan's economic crisis has already hit the UK's ambitious £52m programme to educate girls, a top priority for Britain's development programme in the world's newest state. South Sudan shut down oil production in January in a dispute with ...
Middle East Online Four foreigners investigating debris from recent fighting between Sudan and South Sudan have been caught in the Heglig oilfield area, Khartoum said Saturday, but the UN identified them as deminers.
UN appoints high-level development advisory panel [LONDON] The presidents of Indonesia and Liberia — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — and the prime minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, are to co-chair a UN panel to advise on approaches to development after the Millennium Development Goals ( MDGs ) expire in 2015.
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