Peddling trash: beating poverty with bikes in Kenya
29 October 2009
Worldbike is using customised bicycles to kick-start rubbish-hauling enterprises in Kenya's poorest neighbourhoods. Daily quantities are sold for daily needs in Nairobi's ever-growing slums. Called the kidogo economy, Swahili for 'little', laundry detergent, margarine and anything else manufacturers haven't packaged in small boxes are divided and resold in tiny affordable sachets.
Source: The Ecologist read full story here
AFRICA: Fighting the "double whammy" of obesity and hunger
28 October 2009
Africa faces a double burden of obesity and hunger as millions take up increasingly sedentary lives in cities and the global financial crisis hits rural populations’ food security, nutritionists warn. Under-nutrition continues to plague sub-Saharan Africa, where 32 percent of the world's hungry people live. However, those migrating from the countryside to cities are eating too much fatty food, leading to rising rates of obesity.
Source: IRIN read full story here
What the United Nations is saying about Africa's landmark treaty on internally displaced
22 October 2009
The African Union is due to adopt a convention to protect and assist millions of people on the continent, who have been uprooted within their own countries by violence and natural disasters.
Source: AlterNet read quotes here
AU set to endorse landmark treaty to protect continent's displaced millions
20 October 2009
The African Union (AU) is expected to adopt a ground-breaking convention this week to protect and assist millions of internally displaced people on the continent. Africa hosts almost half of the world's internally displaced people (IDPs) - 11.8 million of an estimated 26 million - who have been uprooted within their own countries because of conflict and natural disasters.
Source: AlertNet read full story here
Mandelas, not Mobutus
19 October 2009
Visionary leadership is key to Africa's progress, and there are effective ways of encouraging it. Once when flying over Kenya I looked out of my window. The country was so lush, so green, I wondered how the people there could ever be hungry. Looking at the spaces, huge, endless spaces, animals, water; everything was there. I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
Source: The Guardian read full story here
Gone to waste: how the UK burns money by dumping and incinerating resources
7 October 2009
The UK is throwing away over £650 million every year by dumping and incinerating waste which, if recycled, could save 19 million tonnes of greenhouse gases annually - equivalent to taking around six million cars off the roads - a new report by Friends of the Earth shows today
Source: Friends of the Earth read full story here
World leaders must commit to free health care - aid groups
14 September 2009
It costs so little to scrap healthcare fees in poor countries that donors and governments have no excuse for letting millions die every year due to charges they can't pay, a joint report by major charities said on Monday. "User fees for healthcare are a life or death issue for millions of people in poor countries. Too poor to pay, women and children are paying with their lives," said the report.
Source: AlterNet read full story here
The Big Question: Should Africa be generating much of Europe's power?
25 August 2009
Two hugely ambitious power-generating schemes have been launched in recent weeks, one offering to create the world's largest solar farm and the other to create the biggest hydroelectric dam on the planet. In both cases the location for the mega-projects is Africa…What the two projects have in common is that they seek to export the majority of the power they intend to generate from impoverished countries to more developed economies.
Source: The Independent read full story here
Zimbabwe inflation quickens, crisis persists
19 august 2009
Zimbabwe's inflation rose to 1 percent month-on-month in July from 0.6 percent in June, figures released by the Central Statistical Office showed on Wednesday, as a new unity government battles for aid to fix the economy.
Source: Reuters read full story here
The DFID white paper and the World Bank: Missing the point?
13 August 2009
The latest DFID white paper strengthens the UK’s target setting for the World Bank, but fails to adequately tackle the crucial questions of governance, conditionality, human rights accountability, and climate finance. A recent Tory Party policy paper leaves it unclear whether they would do any better.
Source: Bretton Woods Project read full story here
Clinton mission signals greater ambition in Africa
13 August 2009
If president Barack Obama's Africa trip was all about symbolism, Hillary Clinton's tour has offered a detailed insight into the administration's aims on the continent.
Source: Reuters read full story here
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Keynote address by Revd Nicta Lubaale
Keynote address by Patricia Daley
World AIDS Day 2009 statistics
Black Church and climate change
Campaign with Africa
Interview with Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma : HIV article
Afronomics Summit - interviews
Global Report on HIV/AIDS funding crisis
Christian Aid Climate Change reports
All creation groaning: A theological approach to climate change and development
Afronomics Summit
Campaign with Africa by Revd Wale Hudson-Roberts
Climate Change and Africa
Being Black and Green: The Black Church and Climate Change by Chris Andre-Watson
Punishing Success? Early Signs of a Retreat from Commitment to HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment.
World AIDS Day statistics – 1st December 2009
All creation groaning: A theological approach to climate change and development
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