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ZAMBIA: School Policy for Teen Mothers a Partial Success By Violet Nakamba Mengo LUSAKA - Naomi Mulenga is determined to beat the odds by finishing her school education and becoming a nurse – despite being a teenage mother. MORE >>
KENYA: Trying to Rebuild Communities After Floods By Mary Kiio NAIROBI - After torrential rains and floods claimed lives in Kenya’s North Rift region, hundreds of displaced people are now in dire need of relief aid. MORE >>
EDUCATION-MALAWI: Local Language Dictionary Released By Charles Mpaka BLANTYRE - The thickest book on secondary school teacher Hellen Ndalama’s desk is her indigenous language dictionary. It is also her most-used book. MORE >>
ECONOMY-SENEGAL: 'Only The Rich Get Loans' By Koffigan E. Adigbli DAKAR - Despite the financial sector boom in Senegal, small and medium sized businesses (SMBs), which represent over 90 percent of the industrial fabric of the country, struggle to access funding for their development, their representatives claim. MORE >>
WEST AFRICA: Stopping the Polio Virus By Brahima Ouédraogo OUAGADOUGOU - The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners hope to eliminate the circulation of the polio virus in West Africa as soon as June by launching the first round of national synchronised immunisation days against the debilitating disease. MORE >>
POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job By Stanley Kwenda KIGALI - On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. The situation is however different in Rwanda. MORE >>
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Unexpected Low Custom Revenue Causes Budget Shortfalls By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - Plummeting revenues from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) could cause severe financial difficulties in the region, economic experts warn. To make matters worse, the organisation is split over the future of its tariff pool that largely bankrolls the national budgets of its poorer members. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Spain’s New Drive to Extend its Interests in Africa By Stanley Kwenda PRETORIA - Spain is breaking new ground in its relations with Africa through an ambitious programme which has seen it increasing its development funding to the continent more than six-fold from 2004 to reach 1,4 billion euros in 2008. MORE >>
EDUCATION-SIERRA LEONE: Government Ignores Demands for Additional Teachers By Lansana Fofana FREETOWN - Ismail Conteh has been teaching for the past year-and-a-half at a primary school in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown – without receiving a single cent. He is one of hundreds of teachers recruited by schools to match the ever-growing number of pupils. MORE >>
NAMIBIA: "If You Kiss for Five Minutes You Get It" By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - "At home we have a bar," says grade seven learner David Bravo* (14). "When my mother puts on the music I cannot concentrate on (my) schoolwork anymore. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I just sit there and watch the people." MORE >>
SWAZILAND: Budget Cuts Ahead but More Money for Education and Health By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Her swollen feet are a constant reminder to Sanele Matsebula that she needs to take her medication. MORE >>
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SADC - The official website for the Southern African Development Community
African Economic Research Consortium
Third World Network
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
SARPN is a facility for promoting debate on poverty in Southern Africa
The Development Gateway is an interactive portal for information on sustainable development and poverty reduction, providing a space where communities can share their experiences on development.
