New York, 14 September, 2007— United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today convened international development leaders for the inaugural session of a new steering group to boost Africa’s as yet failing efforts to meet the ambitious […]

Dakar, 13 September, 2007— Government figures indicate that in northern Ghana flooding has affected more people than in all other West African countries combined, yet the disaster has received little international attention compared to floods […]

Peshawar, 13 September, 2007— Growing insecurity in Afghanistan is the main impediment to the return of more than 2 million registered Afghans still living in Pakistan today. “No, I won’t go,” Ghayassudin, a 26-year-old taxi […]

Kinshasa, 14 September, 2007— Measures have been taken to prevent the spread of Ebola following the deaths of at least 160 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s southern province of Kasai Occidental during the […]

Dakar, 14 September, 2007— A leader of one of the rebel groups in eastern Chad warned a proposed European Union (EU) force that it will be a target if it takes sides in the country’s […]

Johannesburg, 12 September, 2007— US charity CARE International made headlines last month when it said it would turn down US government aid to sell American food in developing countries. The funds generated by “monetisation” programmes […]

Monrovia, 12 September, 2007— Liberian officials say the government must reinstate its agency responsible for responding to natural disasters, which has been defunct since the height of the war. “The National Disaster Relief Commission is […]

Washington, 12 September, 2007— The use of technologies that combine solar power and energy efficiency is helping a growing segment of the more than 3 billion people in the developing world who burn traditional biomass […]