Indian and Chinese representatives mark the launch of the New Development Bank.
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The BRICS New Development Bank has promised to change the world of multilateral development funding but has so far failed to live up to expectations.
Migrants abandoned on the Sudan-Libya border by smugglers in 2014.
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A deal to secure the southern Libyan border aims to stop migrants from attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
Africa needs to improve governance, build infrastructure, and reduce trade barriers to achieve inclusive growth.
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The need to connect African markets to aid development will once again be discussed at the World Economic Forum. The debate needs to move beyond the usual rhetoric.
A slave fortress in Cape Coast, Ghana.
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An online database explores the nearly 36,000 slave voyages that occurred between 1514 and 1866.
Bill Nye the Science Guy leads a crowd of scientists in the April 22 2017 March on Science in Washington, DC.
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Scientists from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe take on the White House with facts from the ground they stand on.
Actress and U.N. Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd visited a refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan in 2016.
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Contraception saves lives, and U.S. spending on it abroad had an unintended upside when it formed the backbone of early HIV prevention efforts.
South Sudanese refugees at the Bidi Bidi camp in Uganda.
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Uganda has won praise for the way it treats its refugees. But now it is at breaking point.
Paul Odihambo shows off a bore well in his village outside of Kisumu, Kenya that a DIY aid group donated.
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With steep budget cuts looming, a growing number of tiny volunteer-driven organizations are delivering aid on their own. Will the Trump administration inspire even more small-scale global giving?
Herder Ahmed Haji waters his goats.
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According to 2016 rankings, Somalia is the most fragile state in the world, worse off even than Syria. But there are reasons to believe things will improve.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
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A former US diplomat explains why some programs may make sense to cut, while others are crucial to America’s moral standing.
If implemented, President Trump’s proposed foreign aid cuts would have many repercussions.
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As President Trump puts U.S. foreign aid on the chopping block, few Americans know much about it. Perhaps even fewer realize that the U.S. lags behind its peers on this front.
Women in rural Malawi, outside an AIDS hospital. AIDS was the first of the ‘new’ pandemic threats, after bird flu.
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An active outbreak of a type of bird flu in China raises concerns about worldwide pandemics. Ebola and Zika viruses still threaten. Here’s why this is not the time to cut funding.
The European Union’s relationship with Africa is as old as the independence story.
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Sixty years on, the European Union is facing unprecedented challenges among member states. Can its relationship with Africa survive the storm?
The Internet of Things offers great opportunities for Africa.
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The new Internet of Things has the potential to compensate for Africa’s legacies of underdevelopment.
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Migrants keep going back to the vilified go-betweens that can get them construction jobs or domestic work.
Hydroponic vertical farming system.
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Urban consumers in Africa are rapidly growing and they are demanding high quality, pesticide free food.
The G20 facilitates global engagement but participation can be cumbersome.
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In its agenda to reform global economic governance the developing world should look for ways to extract some value from the G20.
A camp for people affected by malnutrition in Eritrea.
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Eritreans are at risk of severe malnutrition – but aid agencies struggle to access those in need.
ICC’s Former Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo looks at a video of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir.
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The African pushback is as a result of the ICC’s own Africa strategy.
Places with poor sanitation and insufficient clean drinking water are at risk of cholera outbreaks.
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Cholera is estimated to infect between 3 to 5 million people globally, every year.