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People

Population	87.89 mln
Population growth	2%
Life expectancy	72 years
Net migration	-900,000

Economy

GDP	$144.06 bln
- per capita	$1,639
- growth rate	7%
FDI, net inflows	$2.93 bln

Infrastructure

Cellphone users	59%
Internet users	6%
High-tech exports	54%

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Fighting hunger in the Sahel

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Drought has returned to the Sahel region of West Africa following an erratic and late 2011 rainy season, bringing hunger to millions in the region for the third time in the past decade. In an area of the world where most people live only on what they can grow, inconsistent rains, failed harvests and dying animals mean that hunger is a fact of life for many.In Niger, 6.1 million people are estimated to be severely or moderately food-insecure. Results from a recent national nutrition survey in more...

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D C on May 02, 2012

Uganda captures LRA senior commander

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"A senior commander in the rebel Lord's Resistance Army has been captured by the Ugandan army, a spokesman has said."Caesar Achellam was seized on Saturday following a struggle between Ugandan soldiers and a group of 30 rebels."The commander, whom Ugandan officials say is a top rebel military strategist, was captured in the Central African Republic, one of several nations where the Ugandan-led LRA operates."BBC News, 13 May 2012

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John Daly on May 13, 2012

Stopping the Destructive Spread of Small Arms

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The proliferation of small arms and light weapons is an immediate security challenge to individuals, societies, and states around the world and an enormous hurdle to sustainable security and development. As shown in this report, the Horn of Africa exemplifies the challenges the proliferation of small arms and light weapons pose for sustainable regional security and development. Somalia is the quintessential failed state that illustrates the cost of small arms and light weapons proliferation and more...

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Sonia Hossain on March 08, 2012

Mobile Africa Report 2011

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According to industry estimates, there are more than 500 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa now, up from 246 million in 2008. In 2000, the number of mobile phones first exceeded that of fixed telephones. The four biggest mobile phone markets in Africa are Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana. Strategic investors in Africa’s mobile industry include South Africa’s MTN, India’s Bharti Airtel, France Telecom (via its Orange brand), Britian’s Vodafone and Luxembourg’s Millicom. The mobile more...

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D C on April 11, 2011

Is the Distribution of Foreign Aid MDG-Sensitive?

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This paper examines whether Official Development Assistance (ODA) is disproportionately allocated to countries that need to make the most progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is expected that MDG-sensitive distribution of foreign aid – or a good donor-recipient match – to be guided by the principles of the Global Partnership for Development. When the MDG-sensitivity criteria for aid allocation is applied, the results indicate that ODA allocation since the Millennium more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 05, 2012

A Considerable Difference: Women and Representation in Southern Sudan

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After more than 20 years of civil war and a long struggle for independence, South Sudan officially became Africa's 54th nation on 9 July 2011. In the making of the nation, women played a significant role in achieving independence - making their voices heard, particularly in the political arena.

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D C on July 13, 2011

Drought could become a catastrophe for 13 million if action not taken in West and Central Africa, Oxfam warns

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Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a full scale humanitarian emergency in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa if urgent action is not taken. In parts of Chad some villagers have been reduced to pounding ant hills to gather grain the ants have stored. They say unless they get help they will have to abandon their villages in a month’s time. The hunger season has started early in the Tillabery region in western Niger. Communities have more...

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D C on March 13, 2012

Child labor, schooling and household wealth in African rural area

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This work uses MVPROBIT model and MICS surveys from rural areas of 8 sub- Saharan African countries to highlight the link between household wealth and child labor. It opposes “wealth paradox” approach of Bhalotra and Heady (2003) to “luxury axiom” approach of Basu and Van (1998). This analysis is based on the assumption of differences in the wealth’s effect according to the gender and the type of labor. The results suggest that heterogeneity among children (gender) and labor activities leads to more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 09, 2012

Progress in Achieving MDGs in Africa

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Africa’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) performance had been positive and in the right direction, but acknowledged that the pace was too slow and uneven across countries and goals to assure the achievement of the MDGs by the 2015 target date. The report showed that while North African nations are making good progress on maternal, infant, and child mortality indicators, countries in sub-Saharan Africa still lag behind U.N. goals for reducing mortality. The report says that addressing Africa’s more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 05, 2012

The rape of men

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During his escape from the civil war in neighbouring Congo, a man had been separated from his wife and taken by rebels. His captors raped him, three times a day, every day for three years. And he wasn't the only one. He watched as man after man was taken and raped. The wounds of one were so grievous that he died in the cell in front of him.Twenty-one per cent of Sri Lankan males who were seen at a London torture treatment centre reported sexual abuse while in detention. In El Salvador, 76% of more...

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D C on July 25, 2011

An Uncertain Future? Children and Armed Conflict in the CAR

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Children in Central African Republic (CAR) face severe human rights abuses and violations. Numerous armed groups are active throughout the country, terrorizing communities and abducting children. Three groups in particular are guilty of egregious crimes against children and are still committing four of the six grave violations against CAR’s children.The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which for years has terrorized communities and abducted children in northern Uganda, more recently has been more...

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D C on May 05, 2011

Health Information in Conflict Situations:

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This is a report of a meeting that took place at Chatham House on December 13, 2010. The meeting was organised by the Centre on Global Health Security and the International Security Programme at Chatham House, Medact and the Peace & Security Liaison Group. The participants considered what mechanisms and actors exist in order to safeguard the status of health information in conflict. Discussions also explored the challenges of obtaining data, and the accuracy and impartiality of the data more...

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Sonia Hossain on February 15, 2012

Poverty: Is There an App for That?

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Last week the World Bank issued a announced an upcoming event called Random Hacks of Kindness. Tech developers will gather at locations around the world to try to “create open solutions that can save lives and alleviate suffering.”Anyone imagining that a day or two of hacking will produce solutions to development problems, even in some small part, is either a technologist drunk on her own self-image who believes that she’ll solve a mindboggling social challenge with technology, or a World Bank more...

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D C on May 18, 2011

Switching on: Africa's vast new tech opportunity

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Beyond macroeconomic factors, though, technology is driving profound changes to economies and societies across the continent. The hundreds of millions of mobile handsets and billions of airtime minutes only go some way to describe the scope of entrepreneurship that underpins Africa's technological revolution. From mobile payments to telemedicine and advertising, there is a common pulse of innovation, driven by an irrepressible combination of aspiration and necessity. A 2010 Massachusetts more...

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D C on July 14, 2011

Local Governance and ICTs in Africa: Case Studies and Guidelines for Implementations and Evaluations

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Governance in Africa operates from the local community to the continental level. Unfortunately, the crisis of governance persists at all levels, partly because the conscious and deliberate work of overhauling the system has not been done. There is a need, therefore, to deploy all means available to tackle the crisis as the starting point for creating a sustainable system. The main objective is to develop an irreversible system that works to stimulate sustainable human and economic development more...

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D C on May 18, 2011

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