1. 18:48 5th Mar 2013

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    Tags: africakenyalions

    13-year-old genius from Kenya is saving lions with LEDs

    In the video below, 13-year-old Richard Turere says quite explicitly that lions are his enemy. So why did he invent a simple LED-based invention that will help protect struggling lion populations? Well, because the LEDs keep the big cats from eating cows belonging to Richard’s family and neighbors in Nairobi National Park, which means fewer lions have to be killed to protect local livelihoods. Cows benefit, people benefit, and lions benefit too.

     

  2. 18:47 28th Aug 2012

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    Tags: kivapovertyelectricitydevelopmentafrica

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    ‎600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. 

    ‎600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa live without electricity. 

     

  3. 09:16 1st Aug 2012

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    Tags: africahivolympics

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    This infographic by designer Gustavo Sousa uses the Olympic rings to show the number of people living with HIV across the regions. KEY: Oceania: blue. Europe: black. Americas: red. Africa: yellow. Asia: green.

    This infographic by designer Gustavo Sousa uses the Olympic rings to show the number of people living with HIV across the regions. 

    KEY: Oceania: blue. Europe: black. Americas: red. Africa: yellow. Asia: green.

     

  4. 11:54 1st Jul 2012

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    Tags: africaeconomisteconomic developmentaidhumanitarianchina

    Africa on the Rise

    Six of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies between 2001 and 2010 were in Africa,according to The Economist. The International Monetary Fund says that between 2011 and 2015, African countries will account for 7 of the top 10 spots.

    While America may largely misperceive Africa as a disaster zone, China does get the promise on the continent. Everywhere you turn in Africa these days there are Chinese businesspeople seeking to invest in raw materials and agriculture. But American businesses seem to be only beginning to wake up to the economic potential here.

    Why does that matter? Because trade often benefits a country more than aid. I’m a strong supporter of foreign aid, but economic growth and jobs are ultimately the most sustainable way to raise living standards.

     

  5. 18:43 4th Jun 2012

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    Tags: international developmentUgandaNGOAfricaAdmitting Failure

    The NGO world could use more of this

     

  6. 23:04 1st Jun 2012

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    Tags: agricultureafricafoodeconomistinternational development

    Daily chart: How to feed a planet

     

  7. 11:40 10th May 2012

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    Tags: wealthpoliticseconomyinternational developmentpovertyquoteafrica

    If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
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  8. 11:50 9th May 2012

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    Tags: africachildrenhealthinternational developmenteconomics

    New statistics show that the rate of child death across sub-Saharan Africa is not just in decline—but that decline has massively accelerated, just in the last few years.

    New statistics show that the rate of child death across sub-Saharan Africa is not just in decline—but that decline has massively accelerated, just in the last few years.

     

  9. 20:53 8th May 2012

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    Tags: povertyinternational developmentlatin americaafricaglobal health

    Recipe For Safer Drinking Water? Add Sun, Salt And Lime

    Sun, salt and lime sounds like the beginnings of a cocktail recipe, but for some, it could mean cleaner, life-sustaining water.

    “It’s a relatively simple add-on to a treatment that’s already widely accepted” 

     

  10. 10:36 4th May 2012

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    Tags: africafarmingagricultureinternational development

    Can an African 'green revolution' feed the world?

    “If you only increase productivity by 50 percent in Africa, Africa will go from food deficit to food surplus. And that can be done with access to simple inputs that are available today.”

     

  11. 20:13 25th Apr 2012

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    Tags: HIVAIDSafricainternational developmenthealthcondoms

    Beyond Condoms: A Broader Choice for an AIDS-Free Generation

    Access to contraception has long been identified as one of four key components of successful programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, and yet it has been neglected because of insufficient resources and separate funding streams.

     

  12. 10:33 15th Apr 2012

    Tags: Zimbabwedancingpuppetsafricamusicculture

    Zimbabwean Dancers With Puppets!

     

  13. 10:42 21st Mar 2012

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    Tags: quoteafricaKonymusic

    A singer may be innocent; never the song.
    — John Berger
     

  14. 10:18

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    Tags: africakonycharitypovertyinternational development

    The White Savior Industrial Complex

    And we also agree on something else: that there is an internal ethical urge that demands that each of us serve justice as much as he or she can. But beyond the immediate attention that he rightly pays hungry mouths, child soldiers, or raped civilians, there are more complex and more widespread problems. There are serious problems of governance, of infrastructure, of democracy, and of law and order. These problems are neither simple in themselves nor are they reducible to slogans. Such problems are both intricate and intensely local.

    The White Savior Industrial Complex is a valve for releasing the unbearable pressures that build in a system built on pillage. We can participate in the economic destruction of Haiti over long years, but when the earthquake strikes it feels good to send $10 each to the rescue fund. I have no opposition, in principle, to such donations (I frequently make them myself), but we must do such things only with awareness of what else is involved. If we are going to interfere in the lives of others, a little due diligence is a minimum requirement.


     

  15. 21:48 20th Mar 2012

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    Tags: africabambooeconomyethiopiaenvironment

    In Africa’s Vanishing Forests, the Benefits of Bamboo

    Hundimo Dedere owns and manages a plantation of African highland bamboo in Southern Ethiopia that was used as a model for modern bamboo cultivation and management training.