By Mark | January 10, 2012
British parliamentarians query choice of countries to receive UK aid.
Should the UK have bilateral aid programmes for Lesotho and Swaziland?
A report by British parliamentarians queries some the approaches and methodology used by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in its Bilateral Aid Review. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | September 29, 2011
IPS News, 26 September 2011
An interview with Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators for Climate Change.
During the Nov. 28 to Dec. 9 17th U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu will lead the negotiations on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN).
Mpanu-Mpanu is also director of the Clean Development Mechanism Designated National Authority of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Read the rest of this entry »
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By Sarah | September 29, 2011
The Guardian, 28 September 2011
Zimbabwe has launched a $75m plan to protect orphans and vulnerable children over the next three years.
The money will come from the Zimbabwean government and donors, including the UK, the European Commission and the UN children’s agency, Unicef. Some $45m of the money for a child protection fund has been raised from donors, leaving a $30m shortfall that will need to be covered before full national coverage can be ensured. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mark | September 14, 2011
Swaziland and Pretoria
Geraldine Donnelly
“Good morning it is Wednesday 14th September 2011, 6.11am…”
And so our day begins, the radio greets us as we board the minibus for the last time in Swaziland to be taken to the airport as we embark on our last journey to Johannesburg, South Africa. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | August 23, 2011
Mail and Guardian, 23 August
An International Monetary Fund delegation began a two-week visit to cash-strapped Swaziland on Monday to see if the country was doing enough to win the fund’s blessing to secure foreign loans. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | August 10, 2011
Times Live, August 10
Malawi’s central bank announced that it had devalued its currency by ten percent in the hope of reviving a stalled programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 28, 2011
BBC News, 27 July
Some HIV-positive patients in Swaziland are so poor they have resorted to eating cow dung before taking anti-retroviral drugs, Aids activists say. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 27, 2011
BBC News, 27 July
The US has suspended a $350m (£213m) aid package to Malawi after the security forces were accused of killing anti-government protesters last week. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 25, 2011
Angola Monitor, July 2011
Peace is good but not yet good enough
Following many years of travel to Angola from 1999 on, a recent return trip after five years’ absence showed how much has changed – and how much hasn’t. I spent two weeks working with rural communities in three provinces to discuss the effects of climate change on their environment and livelihoods. In the process I was exposed to what post-war development in Angola means for ordinary Angolans. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Campaigns | July 21, 2011
UN Press Release, Nairobi/Johannesburg, 7 July 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa advances on many Millennium Development Goals, but still faces tough challenges
Gains in health and education, but urgent progress needed on child and maternal deaths, nutrition and gender equality, UN report says Read the rest of this entry »
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