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Africa

Analysis: Rethinking DDR in post-independence Sudan

21/07/2011 ANA 0

The increasing number of South Sudan’s armed forces is costing more than 50 percent of government’s expenditure by some estimates – despite a two-year-old US$55 million demobilization and disarmament programme (DDR) sponsored by international donors. […]

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Africa

HEALTH: Ancient wisdom, new knowledge

21/07/2011 ANA 0

No one can tell 64-year-old Fatoumata Kané anything new about the plants and tree bark around her town of Banamba in western Mali, but the traditional healer recently learned how to measure a child’s upper […]

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AID POLICY: Record donor aid, record costs

20/07/2011 ANA 0

Institutional donor aid in 2010 was at its highest-ever level – US$16.7 billion – but so were aid costs, says aid watchdog Development Initiatives in its annual Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report, released today. The […]

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