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Together in a stronger partnership. Photo: UNDP

How did partnerships work for Africa?

13 Nov 2015

A newly tested vaccine against Ebola and a giant drone that can beam Internet access to poor isolated areas — two projects announced just a few months to the expiration of the Millennium Development...

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Light at the end of the tunnel

13 Nov 2015
Environmental sustainability is crucial to Africa’s development. As the target date for achieving...
New cases drop, but numbers still high

13 Nov 2015
Africa made good progress in meeting Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6, which called for halting...
Lack of resources affecting interventions

13 Nov 2015
Despite some success by Africa in achieving much of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),...
A glass half-empty, yet half-full

13 Nov 2015
Measured against the Millennium Development Goal for 2015 of a two-thirds reduction in child...
Closing Africa’s ‘elusive’ gender gap

13 Nov 2015
Architects at the drawing board of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) identified gender...
More students in school but still not all

13 Nov 2015
One objective of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was to ensure that all children entered...
Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind

13 Nov 2015
Burkina Faso, a landlocked West African country south of the Sahara Desert, has been in the news...
Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda

21 Jul 2015
What is the post-2015 sustainable development agenda?
Sustainable Development Goals: New targets hold promise for Africa

5 Dec 2014
The first draft of the world’s new development agenda – the Sustainable Development Goals – takes...
Anchor the MDGs to economic progress, Africans say

15 Dec 2010
Bean packing enterprise in Ethiopia: Although more African countries have been registering stronger...